And it has also led, as the play opens, to a social gathering at Lady Dennison's country house in which all the guests have been invited because they are pitiable in some way.
Both these characters, force-marched into maturity by the reckless adults in their lives, were pitiable, but Eisenberg made room to explore their callowness and unpleasantness, too.
"But if he had injured her, how much more had he injured himself; if her case were pitiable, his was hopeless..
Fingleton said the conditions were "pitiable" and lamented the "utmost gloom in which batsmen and fieldsmen had intense difficulty in sighting the ball".
Jhabvala's New Yorkers can be fiendish or funny, and they can also can be pitiable -- like Pauline, the lonely real estate agent in "Great Expectations," who hands over her apartment and her life to a parasitic family she has just met.
These subhuman piles of trashcan garbage would be pitiable if they weren't motivated by such malign intent.
They are too interesting to be pitiable, just as Bobby Cannavale, as the predatory supervisor at the meat-packing plant, is more than just the sum of his ruthless, despicable actions.
Still pretending to be pitiable Jewish refugees, they hoodwink a bureaucratic path to America, and come to rest in Ohio, where they can throw off their reluctant disguise and grow, if they wish, into Middle Americans.
Shuya Watanabe and Naoki Shitamura are the uncontested killers of a 4-year-old child, but they are also damaged young teenagers who are pitiable even at their most ruthless.
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).
