Sentence examples for twinge of pity from inspiring English sources

Even the women testifying against him felt a twinge of pity for the family.

You had to feel a twinge of pity for Lord Stevenson, who was the chairman of HBOS when it went down the khazi in 2008.

Even then, though, at the very end of Mr Greengrass's riveting film, many of us will experience a twinge of pity for its other captain, too".Captain Phillips" is now in cinemas in America and Britain.

We're having lunch in Winzavod, a fashionable ex-factory art space in Moscow where they have their office, and I almost feel a twinge of pity for those prison officials.

We feel sorry for the shambling villain (asked about his work, he replies, "I sell clothes by the roadside in the evening"), and then, the next moment, abashed at our twinge of pity.

It's hard not to feel a twinge of pity for the songs' subject: whatever he may have done to Grant, he is now getting it in the neck in no uncertain terms in front of a global audience.

The look holds a twinge of sadness, some pity, and some of an emotion I can't name.

The story is partly autobiographical, and not without a twinge of both snobbery and self-pity — James, too, wanted to be more popular than he was — but is also informed by a sense that for most writers there is no such thing as slumming.

For those students I met, I feel mostly pity, and a twinge of guilt.

From me a tear of pity flows.

"Women come to you out of pity".