Any time it's attempted it may provoke deep pity or disquiet or fascination with the hungering person's resolve, but the pain only really turns into a crisis when, as with hecklers, the hunger striker has a point.
Katz had encountered, practically verbatim, the same provocation a hundred times before, which put him in the ridiculous position now of feeling bad for being unable to pretend to be provoked: of pitying Lucy's doughty little ego, its flotation on a sea of aging-female insecurity".
Harrison was pathetic, in the sense of provoking feelings of pity.
What a difference there is between Falcao now and the player who provoked little but pity during two years on loan in the Premier League before slinking back to Monaco in the summer with his confidence in a bin bag.
Meanwhile, many fine pages are devoted to the fine shades separating "piety" from "pity," provoking in a reader the thought that where the Christian desire was to discriminate one from the other — moral duty from moral impulse — modern humanism is essentially an attempt to return the words to a single meaning.
Should their swift response to stress leave us coldly indifferent, while animal suffering provokes intense feelings of pity and compassion?
Instead of fear or pity, it provoked laughter and boos, particularly when O'Toole tottered at the top of a staircase, covered in fake stage blood.
The soprano Hellen Kwon sings vividly in delivering Lady Rich's fervent plea for her brother, when hoping to win the queen's pity she provokes her ire instead.
As youngsters they may work hard to get those talents noticed, but this usually provokes feelings of envy rather than pity in their classmates who have no option but to apply themselves in lessons.
She said, as she listened to Bitchney blubber with self-pity (the only emotion that could ever provoke Bitchney's tears): "It's the worst feeling ever, knowing that you made that person cry".
