Sentence examples for pitiful things from inspiring English sources
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 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.
And the really pitiful thing is the amounts of money – I mean, at least Bernie Madoff had a bit of ambition, right?
(What a pitiful thing the DC map of the world must be, with each country identified by nothing more than its legendary tool of aggression).
Made in Bangladesh competes with Made in Honduras, Made in the Philippines, Made in Macao, Made in Any Steamy Reservoir of Third World Unemployment: those places where plentiful labor lacks the leverage to command high pay, and the most pitiful thing about the jobs is how hard it is to get them.
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.
