Sentence examples for pity one from inspiring English sources

In a way that is a pity; one thing Toobin found was that Stevens was no mistake on Ford's part: "Ford's purpose was not to make a big splash and change the world," Jack Balkin, a professor at Yale Law School, said.

A pity one cannot feel this way more of the God-damned time.

It is a pity: one of the qualities of Fischer's art is its liveliness.

"It's not a question of concern about the clashes but it's a pity one can't savour the companies separately.

Standing in front of one of those oils, Hitler is reported to have said, "It is a pity one cannot lock up people like that".

Full of pity, one phoenix flew north to help, and soon flowers bloomed, crops thrived, and a city came into being.

In a telling episode, her stepmother takes pity on one of these witnesses, who is now destitute, and hires him as a cook.

Like Thomas Hardy, another rural poet who wrote downer fiction, Hall balances on sorrow's edge by virtue of an old-fashioned rigor; he never slips into self-pity on one side or sentimentality over the past on the other.

Others, and I was one, take pity on a tomato bleeding under a light, short and dull blade and reach for ever heavier, longer, sharper knives.

By the aughts, people around China were throwing Singles' Day parties one part pity party, one part mixer, one part celebration of independence.

Pity when one gets a blighty one [a minor wound that would get you sent home] too, after so long".