Sentence examples for what a pitiful from inspiring English sources
A teen-age girl eating ice cream all alone, what a pitiful sight.
(What a pitiful thing the DC map of the world must be, with each country identified by nothing more than its legendary tool of aggression).
Carl Safina, in Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (2015), approvingly quotes Voltaire on Descartes: "What a pitiful, what a sorry thing to have said that animals are machines bereft of understanding and feeling".
What a pitiful bit of kismet.
What a pitiful way to spend my day.
"What a pitiful performance," Stalder said aloud at the end of the match before shaking Shen's hand.
"What a crazed, pitiful thing / She made of my mother!" Phèdre says of the goddess of love.
What followed was a pitiful half-naked fashion show in his bedroom and a brief, awkward encounter between us.
Del Toro superbly conveys Jack's self-loathing, his muddled grasp of what a moral life can mean and his pitiful yearning to punish and be punished.
"What I saw was a pitiful thing, and the umpire was terrible in the way he handled it.
Southern states like Tamil Nadu do well, but generally the country gets what it pays for: a pitiful $39 per person per year for public health, compared with China's $203 or Brazil's $483.
