Sentence examples for pitiful thing from inspiring English sources
The pitiful thing was that people envied my career.
"What a crazed, pitiful thing / She made of my mother!" Phèdre says of the goddess of love.
"What I saw was a pitiful thing, and the umpire was terrible in the way he handled it.
He said he had seen mother hawks tend their eggs for a month after their expiration date and allowed, "It's a really pitiful thing".
"Not being able to have a war on its own is the most pitiful thing about Japan," he has said.Few accuse Mr Hashimoto of lacking ambition.
The garden behind the fourth door (a screen in Giles Cadle's design) is a pitiful thing, planted on what appear to be shallow graves.
One of the most pitiful things about the political class, and the economists who whisper certainties in their ear, is their distance from the actual experience of work.
The sad thing is that the only winners in this pitiful tale is Paddy Power, the bookmaker whose name so offended Uefa.
But the media map that goes along with revolutions like this is a pitiful, tattered thing.
Five-year-old Five-year-old Five-year-old Five-year-old Robbie Whitcombs snatched from the parking livesf a mall in Ypsilanti, Mich., by a whiskered man whonettacks the boy's mother and drives over her in his van, leaving her a "pitiformbrofen thatg".
Fed by a thirst for change, as Saturday night turned to Sunday morning, Alan Sillitoe's earthy world of toil and temptation turned to the sterility of John Betjeman's avaricious young executiveThe IPPR reports, accordingly, that apprenticeships in Britain are pitiful little things on the whole, that would not be recognised by a self-respecting German meister if one fell on him.
