Sentence examples for pity before from inspiring English sources

The former general, known for his cruelty during the war, tried pity before defiance.

You feel those classic pangs of sorrow and pity before the production even begins.

New Londoners took pity before the rest of us succumbed to malnutrition and misery, and shared their cuisines.

When he played quarterback at Utah, before the injuries and the operations, before the sympathy and the pity, before he retired at 22, some of the best moments of Wynn's life occurred in that very end zone.

I cannot bear to present myself as an object of pity before phone numbers have even been exchanged, and the instant imbalance of full disclosure compromises any prospect of a normal friendship evolving.

The 22-Year-Old Retiree When he played quarterback at Utah, before the injuries and the operations, before the sympathy and the pity, before he retired at 22, some of the best moments of Jordan Wynn's life occurred in the end zone at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Rice-Eccles Stadium

García has wallowed in self-pity before.

For months I was lost in self-pity before I remembered the story of Lazarus.

Faced with 20 years in a Bangkok jail, she dissolves into self-pity before teaching her fellow inmates Madonna's 'Like a Virgin'.

Lewisohn's opinion appears to tally with a bootlegged conversation from the Get Back sessions, where Harrison reveals that John Lennon had vetoed "Isn't It a Pity" three years before, and that he (Harrison) considered offering the song to Frank Sinatra.

How would he have been judged, he asked, if an Iraqi or Iraqi-assisted attack had taken place after he had shrunk back from the issue?What a pity that before the war neither the British nor the American governments stuck to such careful justifications.