Sentence examples for pity himself from inspiring English sources

(Richard Rorty on Nabokov versus Freud and Heidegger versus Nietzsche) D. Nabokov's capacity to pity others was as great as Proust's capacity to pity himself.

Still, there's heartbreak in this humor: Van Deusen isn't foolish, he's a "once proud" man who has been betrayed by boobytrapped genes, drink and the times, and is too stoic either to rue them or to pity himself.

Certainly he pities himself.

Instead of pitying himself, he jokes about his mutilation.

But he never pitied himself, or expected anyone else to.

Save for the fact that he pitied himself far more than you could hope to match, Carl Kruger almost presented a sympathetic portrait of a man consumed with remorse.

Mr. Dershowitz added that the former governor was "working every day, he's not goofing off, he's not pitying himself".

When he pities himself for being unable to forget the girl who has denounced him, we get a regretful fragment of late Yeats.

Once again, the narrator arrives in Los Angeles at Christmas, after four months elsewhere; attends parties where he inevitably runs into people he knew in high school, who despise or desire him (or both); gets drunk; gets stoned; and pities himself.

Remember that family who lived in a boatrun aground and capsizedby the creamy dunes where the plovers nest Sea, sun, storm, and firmamentkept their minds occupied.David Copperfield came and went,and their sympathy for him was suchthat they pitied him almost as muchas he pitied himself.

That the finest painter of the 20th century should have been reduced to such an extremity is the most terrible of ironies, but Matisse did not waste precious time pitying himself.