Sentence examples for pitiful waste from inspiring English sources
It is a pitiful waste," he said.
As well as being a fine novel about the pitiful waste of war, it has at its heart a touching love story and a trenchant critique of the hypocrisies of religion.
When she died, aged three, she was a pitiful, wasted scrap, the ulcers in her throat and mouth making the pain of swallowing more vicious than the pangs of hunger.
There might be scoffers and wreckers who still call it the Worthless Cup, those fools who looked down their noses when Arsenal wasted their time chasing this pitiful third-class pot of English football, but you'll find that after a reappraisal conducted under strict scientific conditions and based entirely on facts, Spurs fans have changed their mind about the League Cup.
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.
Not only are they an insane waste of heat, but they sap the morale of anyone trying to do their small and pitiful bit to combat global warming.
In 1996, during negotiations over a nuclear-waste law, Gerhard Schröder, two years away from becoming Chancellor, called her performance as environment minister "pitiful".
Europe, thy name is pitiful.
