Sentence examples for pity and compassion from inspiring English sources

Should their swift response to stress leave us coldly indifferent, while animal suffering provokes intense feelings of pity and compassion?

According to Lessing, Shakespeare's tragedies arouse fear, pity, and compassion more successfully than the dramas of French Classicism.

After the war, he also developed a heroin habit, which must have caused pity and compassion in Robinson.

And here he learns the cruellest, most brutal lessons of survival, how to quash all sense of pity and compassion.

Her capacity for pity and compassion, and her professional duty to shield the powerless, deserted her, or collapsed under the irresistible urge for power.

At the seashore, she witnesses a complex "rescue" scene in which earthling emotions of pity and compassion are on display – feelings she does not share.

On "The Lonely Doll," a velvet-lined music box of a song, McCombs showcases a series of tightly rhymed verses like "a portrait painted from truth/but imagined to soothe/for Beauty, eternal in youth/loves pity, compassion, and ruth".

Finding the balance between thoughtful compassion and inappropriate pity is not easy, but paying close attention to context can help.

36 1 Now the most prudent of the Macedonians looked on this reversal of Fortune with compassion and felt pity for the case of those who had seen their former lot so violently changed; everything belonging to their high rank was far removed from them, and they were encompassed by what was foreign and hostile.

Or even just hum, without meaning, maybe to the tune of "Motherless Child," mm mm, mm mm, mm mm mm mm mm mm, and so she comes in, self-pity — self-compassion, my darling, my constant one, the scarf dancer.

Or even just hum, without meaning, maybe to the tune of "Motherless Child," mm mm, mm mm, mm mm mm mm mm mm, and so she comes in, self-pity—_self-compassion, my darling, my constant one, the scarf dancer.