Sentence examples for pity over from inspiring English sources

The German socialist Werner Pusch once described his feelings of pity over not being able to share the belief of the excited and hysterical hordes present at one of Adolf Hitler's rallies.

"A benevolent malefactor, a compassionate convict, offering forgiveness in return for hate, favoring pity over revenge, preferring to himself be destroyed to destroying his enemy, saving the one who had brought him down, this loathsome angel, this vile hero, who outraged him almost as much as he amazed him".

Okba curses God for his fate but Thalaba can only feel pity over the scene.

These victories add up to our moral implosion, the ethical defeat of a society that now engages in no self-inspection, that wallows in self pity over postponed airline flights and burnishes itself with the pride of the enlightened.

But monsters threaten, the dream breaks up in universal cataclysm, weariness and self pity take over, and both boat and voyant capitulate.

On the rare occasions when he slips into self-pity over Iraq, she is said to snap him out of it.

Speaking on a phone to the same reporter with whom he had sat on Tuesday, he sounded neither angry nor consumed by self-pity over being fired 111 games into his first season as pitching coach.

It was sad enough to accompany my self-pitying over pot noodles and slow trawls over photos of my mates settling in to different cities, yet full of enough strangeness to carry me into all of the new shit with just the right balance of excitement and trepidation.

But by the middle of the week, the pity party was over and Groh and the Jets were back to talking tough.

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The plotlines of these narratives are cliches of bravery, pity, triumph over tragedy and often death.