Sentence examples for somehow pitiful from inspiring English sources

As such, he is presented as a deviant wunderkind, simultaneously astute and base, accomplished yet also somehow pitiful.

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

Donath speaks of the ideological promises made to prospective mothers about the joys of raising children, and of the "simultaneous delegitimisation of women who remain childless", who are reckoned to be "egoistic, unfeminine, pitiful and somehow defective".

Pity for a pitiful club.

And yet we somehow manage to spend a fortune to achieve these pitiful results.

But it is one of the most lamentable frailties of mankind that when one's wrong is most grievous, his self-justification is most passionate, perhaps in the pitiful hope that the fervor of his self-defense will somehow prove him right.

Her voice is somehow young and ancient, chill and yearning – the effect is as terrifying as it is pitiful.

That's pitiful.

"It's pitiful".

Europe, thy name is pitiful.

We were so pitiful".