Sentence examples for pitiful scene from inspiring English sources
Construction lights illuminated a pitiful scene of alpaca carnage.
In one pitiful scene, Riggan reminds his ex-wife that "Farrah Fawcett died on exactly the same day as Michael Jackson," the implication being that he, too, will be open to total eclipse.
Although he describes the most wretched, pitiful scenes, he is always quick to undermine our sympathy.
In an article in the New Statesman, he described pitiful scenes.
There were pitiful scenes in Hungary where migrants thronged Budapest's main railway station and packed into a train they believed was going to Austria en route to Germany, which has opened its doors unconditionally to refugees from Syria.
In recent months the Maoist rebellion, inspired by the Shining Path guerrillas of Peru and led by two college-educated, upper caste Brahmins, has spiraled in intensity in this nation of stark poverty and beauty, where the snowy Himalayas tower majestically over pitiful scenes of hunger and want.
That pitiful funeral scene is one of many in which he reminds his readers that John Cheever was a renowned author, while Ben Cheever got started on this project and its "humiliating" series of jobs because he couldn't sell his third novel.
There are obvious victims of this process – we get fleeting glimpses of pitiful, Abu Ghraib-like scenes and a line of prisoners shuffling round in a circle, their nationalistic dance reduced to a weak-limbed tatter – but ultimately, Shechter suggests, we all end up victims of the lie, and none more so than those, like the knight, who subscribe most selflessly to it.
In one pitiful but warmly rendered scene from the early 2000s, he's in a caravan in a Clapton waste ground with another junkie who wakes Simon up to point out that he's on fire.
Hart's admirer in the gay brunch scene crops up later, as a pitiful attempt to show the film's acceptance of gay characters, when Hart offers relationship advice over the phone.
