Sentence examples for this pitiable from inspiring English sources

The pleading tone in which Edgar makes this pitiable statement says all you need to know about his past, present and future as a party animal.

This pitiable Brutus-cum-Hamlet doesn't realize that he's one of the pieces, and more likely to be swept away than picked up by anyone else.

Quentin Letts, the Daily Mail: Simply by dint of his art, good-looking Mr Cooper persuades us that he is this pitiable, and soon engagingly likeable grotesque … I had not heard of Bradley Cooper and, having arrived at the theatre with my head full of other work, did not consult the programme until heading home.

This was the pitiable truth I had to embrace.

And he gives himself over to this complex role, conveying the pitiable anguish of the weak-willed Don José, who is overcome with desire for Carmen yet disgusted with himself for abandoning his responsibilities, both to his regiment and to his forgiving mother back home.

This is a welcome twist, one of the pitiable things about the 007 franchise being its fixation on global conquest — a cheesy homage, I often think, to the ubiquity of the Bond brand itself.

Mr. Schlesinger was deriding this as a pitiable lack of political vision.

If we are to believe this pretext, which pro-state columnists find convincing, we must draw the pitiable conclusion that the words of a Turkish politician are not to be trusted if he is not in power.

In this penetrating study of Oswald's pivotal sojourn in the Soviet Union, Savodnik outlines the pitiable delusions and hopes Oswald harbored both in America and abroad.

Sex sells, and frankly it would seem far more exploitative for the news media to pimp this tale to the public than anything that VIP escort service did with the pitiable governor.

And, finally, they watched the defendant -- this simultaneously despicable and pitiable cipher of a man, this coward who had shot two better men in the backs of their heads -- stand up to beg for his life in a halting, heavily edited allocution free from cross-examination.