Sentence examples for seems pitiable from inspiring English sources

No one would call a buckeye fierce — and Brutus, the team's mascot, just seems pitiable and a bit confused.

Aristotle Onassis's playboy son, Alexander, never seemed pitiable.

It's a sight that could seem pitiable, were it not so miraculous that he's even here.

And in truth, the sight of bag ladies on a city street can be unsettling: They can seem pitiable and harmless, yet willful and scary.

Therefore my feelings and insights vis-à-vis God were as valid, arguably more valid, than those of Father X and Sister Y, who now seemed pitiable, weak, and left behind.

Yet try as he might to exalt it, Ellroy's desire, when not predatory, often seems merely pitiable.

She aptly used her warmly dark-hued voice to convey Santuzza's anguish and seemed both pitiable and passionate in her gripping performance.

And Ms. Benson's Mary is more frumpy and pitiable than seems strictly necessary.

Mr. Brolin makes him seem at once pitiable and scary without making him look like a monster or a clown.

But the poignant cast and penetrating richness of his singing made the tyrannical Macbeth seem a haunted, almost pitiable figure.

In Cukor's film, there are wealthy women who are as capable of low deeds as are poor ones, but they are so much more sympathetic and pitiable for seeming merely absurd, whereas the fierce grasping of Joan Crawford's perfume-counter gold-digger comes off as pure evil.