Sentence examples for seem pitiful from inspiring English sources

The series of The Bridge so far makes Borgen (certainly the season before Christmas) seem pitiful by comparison.

In his two signature roles, as an innocent man imprisoned in The Shawshank Redemption, and as a victim of child abuse victimised again in adulthood in Mystic River (for which he won an Oscar), he was made to seem pitiful.

In middle school, they had seemed pitiful — objects of sympathy, charity, and condescension, if not derision.

My meals of boiled carrots and mashed potatoes and a few pieces of chicken breast must have seemed pitiful.

By contrast, Jesus/Yeshua (Cesar Sarachu) seems pitiful – a parcel of bones with supplicant hands (not unequivocally wonderful, as in the novel).

28 When compared with the £57 billion 29 (not including considerable local government expenditure) to be spent on education in the UK this fiscal year, this investment seems pitiful, it may not suit many children's physical activity preferences, and does not help secondary school children, who suffer the same inactivity-related problems.

Against which the hundreds of billions in Obama's stimulus plan seem a pitiful penny.

He seemed very pitiful to me, and very desirable.

My brother-in-law seems particularly pitiful to me, since he has no reason to feel sick, and I find myself getting angry over his little sighs and whimpers.

Each depressing character seemed more pitiful than the next.

The color was so out of place it seemed somehow pitiful.