Sentence examples for seems pitiful from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Do you understand why they are not only unproductive and maliciously divisive, but evidence of an extremely racially skewed mind that seems beyond pitiful and silly when accusing others of the same?

"This seemed, even at the time, a pitiful excuse, and seems the more pitiful with hindsight".

"This seemed, even at the time, a pitiful excuse, and seems the more pitiful with hindsight," Barnes writes.

He seemed very pitiful to me, and very desirable.