Sentence examples for to be pitiable from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

It's the tendency to be pitiable, and that's weird.

Comprehended at a glance, it lets us get right down to being crazy about ourselves, in a bubble of participatory narcissism that it will be pitiable to have missed.

Someone who is prone to self-pity can still be pitiable.

It would be pitiable if people in India had to pay American prices.

This character MUST be pitiable, but have a tragic flaw that leads to their downfall, such as anger or pride.

Nothing could be more cliched, or more questionable, than the idea that ambitious career women without children must therefore be pitiable, emotionally empty figures – and Toni Erdmann does come close to this old chestnut.

These subhuman piles of trashcan garbage would be pitiable if they weren't motivated by such malign intent.

He could be a brute and be alluring, he could be a slob and be pitiable.

His people are too flawed to be the pitiable saints some repute them to be.