In a land with such an abundance of quality food, with vast numbers of cookbooks and homes with larger and larger kitchens, it is pitiful that one needs to eat out to get macaroni and cheese, regardless of how good it is.
Maybe a film director, who knows?" It is pitiful that the only real help being given to the drug users living in Bucharest's ghetto areas are via two NGOs funded mainly by foreign money.
They've implied that it was sad, almost pitiful, that an adolescent obsession - or maybe it was in fact a psychological compulsion - should have been allowed to marginalise what they optimistically had hoped might have been a serious body of work.
It's pitiful, that out of the very few rape cases that actually reach court, sentences remain so light, and it defies logic to think that a man who thinks he can use force to dominate a woman is going to be magically reformed by undergoing such a sentence.
"It's pitiful that you have to ask".
It's pitiful that the federal government feels compelled to intrude into one Florida family's calamity.
The Patriots took such a beating from the Colts on Monday night that linebacker Rosevelt Colvin said: "It's pitiful.
It's pitiful that the phrase "middle-aged woman" is wrongly equated with being a moody, barren harridan, and not a woman possessing wisdom born of experience, without crippling age-related physical decrepitude.
It's pitiful that Republicans are nearly unanimous in fighting any manner of real reform and hypocritically denouncing "back-room dealing" for the N.R.A. Lacking the courage to dismiss the N.R.A. gamesmanship, Congress must still protect voters by mandating transparency in time for the next election.
"I think it's pitiful that they tried to entrap me in the middle of a trial," Lichtman said when stories first appeared last year that he had taken cash fees from Kasman during the 2005 trial.
