Sentence examples for then pity from inspiring English sources

Pope continued, "Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, / we first endure, then pity, then embrace".

Bachelder's men amuse; their worries inspire, first, laughter — Bachelder was recently awarded The Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize for humor — and then pity.

If that is the case then pity the Strongbow drinker who that afternoon had the misfortune to earn the chance to face six of the best from England's record-breaking paceman.

That intelligent hockey lovers can have eyes and souls sufficiently corrupted to prefer the N.H.L. variant to the real thing reminds me of Alexander Pope's lines on vice: "Vice is a monster of such hideous mien/that to be hated needs but to be seen/But seen too oft, familiar with her face/we first endure, then pity, then embrace".

LONDON — If prophets earn no honor in their own land, then pity poor Tony Blair: in modern times few, if any, Britons have soared so high in the eyes of outsiders, principally Americans, only to swoon so low in the scrutiny of their compatriots.

" Pity" and " piety" stem from the same etymological root; we had hoped they were inseparable, but a contemplation of Hell, where God's terrible vendetta is visited on the damned for all eternity, obliges us to see that if we want an ordered cosmos, with Paradise on top and Hell at the bottom, then pity will have to go.

It was an important reminder that Lohan, an earner since toddlerhood, has been held up as an object to be desired, then derided, then pitied, then cast away, and that this trajectory might make some psychological sense of her yearning for the seemingly solid hand of a controlling despot, for mafioso-style protection.

(Not a subscriber? Then I pity you).

He plays along out of curiosity, then takes pity.

"Oh who are these idiots?" And then, "I pity viewers who still like this".

She had followed developments in the Midlands since then, with pity and even some guilt.