Sentence examples for their pity from inspiring English sources

But there was no escaping all these people, all their pity and all their questions.

In politics, you can only lose if others get the impression that you want their pity.

When I finish my story and await their pity, Marianna rolls her eyes.

He was the object of their pity now, and they had to watch what they said around him.

But Tim, like Reuben, has had trouble finding steady work and found himself idling at what Reuben called their "pity party".

— while I stayed silent, hating each one more than the last, desperate to be alone to wash their pity from my skin.

"The darkness of their secrets lit, the love that came for both of them through their pitying of each other: all that might fill the empty upstairs room, and every corner of the house".

And from the gnashing opening chords to the stunned final moments of the work — in which Oedipus' subjects sing their pitying, emotionally spent farewell to the king, who has blinded himself — Mr. Dutoit drew a vibrant performance from the orchestra and chorus: incisive yet never rigid, intense yet august.

If her family had guests over, she locked herself in a room until they left, unable to deal with their questions or their pitying looks.

I felt their suffering, pitied their poverty and need.

These accounts manage to simultaneously romanticise and patronise their subjects; admiring them for their honesty, pitying them for their poverty.