Sentence examples for so pitiable from inspiring English sources

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That is why there is something so pitiable about the spectacle of those debates in which a celebrity atheist takes on a clergyman, and always wins.

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Given Likud's annexationist momentum, together with the Palestinian Authority's feebleness and lingering commitment to the "right of return," prospects for a negotiated settlement have become pitiable, so let's imagine one state instead.

She wouldn't let go, tugging me toward the inner depths of her brothel -- but she looked so young and pitiable that I couldn't help thinking that she really wanted me to tug her away.

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.

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

Her struggle was with the perception of her and other disabled athletes as pitiable people who were "so brave" for just being out there.

It is a truly pitiable spectacle to see so many frightened flatulent hogs dashing fruitlessly about, begging for the keepers to come and clean out their feeding troughs and to administer medications to solve their digestive crisis.

Sadly, Rosemary won't permit me to name the company involved, as she fears they will withhold the 10% share she is owed (it's pitiable how Britons are now so cowed by corporate behaviour).

The Black Bird is a double-jointed rascal who is able to throw out his joints so that he appears as the most pitiable of spectacles when posing as the unselfish, charitable "Bishop". He goes upstairs to remonstrate with his brother, and to tell the Black Bird that he is wanted by the coppers.

These are but a few of the pitiable legacies of Reagonomics, and so much for making America great again.

As his command of the language returned, so, it seemed, did his awareness of his pitiable condition.

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