Sentence examples for rather pitiful from inspiring English sources

It was also rather pitiful.

Her story, when looked at objectively, is a rather pitiful one.

It was a rather pitiful response in a place where there are great dangers for civilians.

The payback for such V-8 forcefulness is rather pitiful mileage: the federal rating is 15 m.p.g.

We've now pushed it off to a rather pitiful parliamentary committee with no teeth... and again it just goes into the long grass".

He has a rather pitiful memory of flying back to New York from the Toronto Film Festival, hauling the reels of "Mr. Jealousy," which had failed to impress a distributor.

Projects that dive into the stories of India's urban poor can be successful if they attempt to force audiences to see the people represented as complex human beings rather than pitiful or exotic stereotypes.

They have all of Kraus's self-exposure and none of her self-examination; pitiful rather than profound, they are soon the laughingstock of all of Marfa.

Val Guest, Anthony Hinds and Leakey all agreed that the makeup should make Carroon appear pitiful rather than ugly.

After watching the pitiful and rather frightening preparations her husband made for remedying the defect (he went out and bought some twenty-penny spikes and a bottle of rum), she decided she would manage without kitchen shelves.

Washington's charisma crumbles before your eyes: he is suddenly weak and pitiful, a grotesque rather than an aspiration.