Sentence examples for pity which from inspiring English sources

He is fascinated by the power of certain words: "pity", which eradicates hatred because it humanises both pitied and pitier, and "maybe", which also dampens hate and isn't a fixed or "punishing kind of word like conviction or certainty, right or wrong, infidel or enemy, or truth or inquisition or empire or revolution or purge or mother fucker.

The rhetoric of pity, which began in the 1980s, "is something which every educated African finds great, great offence in".

Still, in 1969 the French government prohibited the broadcast of Marcel Ophuls's documentary about the Occupation, "The Sorrow and the Pity," which exploded the French Myth of Resistance.

From then on, Mrs. Hart treated David with a small degree of pity, which he accepted the way any rescued creature would.

(That wry shake shake shake is some of the rock-and-roll-speak that fuels the voice's engine in "Dispatches" and steers the reader away from pity, which he adroitly deflects with lyrics and dark humor).

You might respond by thanking him for his service and calling him a hero, or maybe you might feel revolted, or grimace and take pity, which is the reaction I am pretty sure he would hate the most.

"Dolce" predates by nearly 30 years the explosive confessions of wartime collaboration in Marcel Ophuls's documentary "The Sorrow and the Pity," which French television declined to broadcast in 1970, even though it had partly paid for the project.

Such emotions as love, hatred, contempt and pity, which are directed outwards, towards other people or things, appear not to be self-referential at first, but in an indirect way they are.