As Fiske so aptly put it: "It seems like Washington is a place without pity right now.
The BBC brass are right; the great pity is losing the other brass, luscious strings, pulsating bass and white guy funkster groove, "incorporating wonderful, extended and rich chords that often move through unexpected and beautiful progressions", which is how the oeuvre of composer Keith Mansfield, King of Library music, has been described.
When the characters' inner thoughts interrupt their querulous exchanges, Ms. Robins and Mr. Camp unleash harrowing streams of anger or self-pity right at us, scorching the air with their words.
Look, it's not that I'm experiencing self-pity right now, it's just – let's face it – plenty of monks have set themselves on fire over less.
I'm not trying for sympathy here; I am well-aware that a woman in my position has as much right to self-pity as a gluttonous man who has just consumed a pound of caviar and now whines about a heartburn.
I think he's right, more's the pity.
"Leaders do not have the right to have any pity whatsoever for the mercenaries of the enemy," Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a crowd in the southern city of Varamin.
Still, it was quite a night in which I felt the chance of dark design in Dean before I had yielded to the pity (all right, the self-pity) of him cuddling his soft toy in the gutter; the steel with which he met bullying; the calm he offered Natalie Wood so she could stop being cool and turn warm, and -- well, I went home in the dark ashamed of childhood and already imitating Dean.
"It's a pity that right now when we are facing a big jump in demand, we are not getting enough workers," said K.M. Lee, managing director of Top Glove and president of the Malaysian Rubber Glove Manufacturers Associationn.
It jarred me right out of my pity party and made me smile.
