Sentence examples for pitying look from inspiring English sources

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He trained a pitying look upon me.

She gave me the derisive, pitying look that a sane person gives a lunatic.

"How do you know that?" Again the captain flashed that mild, pitying look.

In Tibet he is known as Spyan-ras gzigs ("With a Pitying Look") and in Mongolia as Nidü-ber üjegči ("He Who Looks with the Eyes").

ANNOUNCE that you work as a journalist in Brussels and you are likely to get a pitying look and a polite inquiry.

She missed the ocean -- the mention of Coney Island and the Rockaways draws a pitying look -- but returned often to Hawaii to study hula, which means simply dance.

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Skarsgård pulls a pitying face.

Rimbaud's life in Africa was not as bleak as this rather self-pitying tone suggests.

Baldwin was in a glum mood and his conversation took on a self-pitying tone.

When Everett explained to him what I was doing, the man studied me with a look of pitying contempt, then turned away.

His face, she goes on, was "more arresting than beautiful, his expression worried and pitying and generous; instead of a look of doggy excitement it was something more tender, a little sorrowful, as if he were viewing with charity and resignation the whole enterprise of living and striving and hoping".

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