| 单词 | pitiable |
| 例句 | On us—the most oppressed, unfortunate and pitiable people in all the world. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z While thus fascinated by the pitiable clean space hedged around by neglected tufts of wool, the man turned a hard, belligerent face to him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Jason wondered if Apollo had assumed this form to be inconspicuous, or to look pitiable to his father. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “That will make your ladyship’s situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no effect on me.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Deprecate used to mean “ward off by prayer,” meticulous once meant “timid,” and silly went from “blessed” to “pious” to “innocent” to “pitiable” to “feeble” to today’s “foolish.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He fell to brooding again, with a meek, almost pitiable distress. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The twenty dormice were dragged forward in a pitiable condition. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The scene was pitiable—the violence earnest, but with all the lassitude of the starving, peered down upon by triumphant rebels, Olympian in the dusk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There must have been something desperate or pitiable in my voice, for he slung his coat back over the partition. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The difference between Bobby and Dickens’s good doctor was the voice: Manette’s was faint, “dreadful and pitiable”; Bobby’s was booming, ferocious and vengeful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At that he looked at me with pitiable hatred: for he was, however false his purpose, truly in kemmer and deeply roused. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Today it’s Mr. Fox complaining about how he can’t breathe which would be a pitiable thing if he didn’t smoke so much. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Armstrong was in a pitiable condition of nerves. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Dr. Trefusis and I today walked to that melancholy place, to view the suicides’ pitiable condition and inquire whether we might in some wise offer succor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We would be pitiable creatures indeed to be so weak, for is not a man’s spirit given to him to rise above his misfortunes? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Then my heart rejoiced— pitiable as I am! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Its pitiable aliens are corralled into a squalid refugee camp by the uncaring humans, and the noblest character in the film is an alien called Christopher. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z He is pitiable as a loser, despicable as a winner and curiously likable through all the intervening stages. | 'Limitless': A Simple Prescription for Superior Powers 2011-03-17T21:59:56Z For those pitiable souls suffering from a lifelong aversion to seafood, I propose Italy’s Adriatic coast as the place to get over it. An Adriatic Feast on the Italian Coast 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The most pitiable is Snow’s new girlfriend, Mary, who has been the victim of awful abuse. Lost in the woods 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Social regimentation will then have become so deft that most people will regard any other social milieu as pitiable. Science fiction’s 2012 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z This is a world of pitiable deprivation, not a zoo of freakish Dickensian monsters. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z Unable to refill his prescription for morphine, Franny, in the throes of withdrawal, becomes a desperate, pitiable wreck. Review: Richard Gere, ‘The Benefactor’ Who Pulls the Strings 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Lucy herself is seen neither as pitiable victim nor heroic coper: she is a liar, self-deceiver and ruthless exploiter of her mother's private wealth but also someone whose recovery hinges on a confrontation with truth. Review 2011-03-18T00:46:40Z There’s a lot to despise about what Theon has done, but his basic situation–feeling not so much torn between two families as rejected by both–is pitiable. Game of Thrones Watch: Fire, Meet Ice 2012-06-04T14:44:21Z The humor pokes fun at the ways the white counselor has fallen prey to stereotypes, assuming that people of color in America are all immigrants and that immigrants are always poor and pitiable. "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" is beyond subtitles — and the white gaze 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z He is a pitiable and pathetic human being. We can’t look away: The joy of Donald Trump and political rubbernecking 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z 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. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z However, pride of place in this well-rendered evening goes to Hunt Stafford and Cohn — dazzling as a pitiable pair whose ascent to a kind of nobility is as unexpected as it is emotionally cathartic. 1950s tales of loneliness and redemption told with conviction in 'Separate Tables' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Writers, show us more older women, ones whose desires are powerful rather than pitiable. The Erotic Truths of “Scary Old Sex” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Helen is also in pitiable shape, though she does a better job of hiding it. Television Review: ?Up All Night? and ?Free Agents? ? Review 2011-09-13T18:44:09Z Grossman creates profoundly sad characters and gives them ample room to put their pain into words as they pursue a sort of quest, charting their pitiable state of living-with-death. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z 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. Theater Review: ?Asuncion? at the Cherry Lane Theater ? Review 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z “It is inconceivable to so many that someone could be disabled and also happy,” she writes, noting that our most archetypal stories provide only two options: glamorous perfection or pitiable tragedy. Review | In ‘Disfigured,’ a writer explores the damaging ways fairy tales shape our view of the world — and ourselves 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z That a penny dreadful character originally meant just to shock and sicken becomes instead a pitiable victim is a testament to the power of music to make bad guys, if not good, compelling. When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z His people are too flawed to be the pitiable saints some repute them to be. Why Vittorio de Sica is one of Europe’s greatest tragic film-makers 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z He is brutish and powerful, but also pitiable. Video Game Review: Papo & Yo 2012-09-25T12:45:11Z The first “Arthur,” the product of a less anxious age, managed to find a workable balance of poignancy and pixilation, making its hero at once a lovable free spirit and a pitiable lost soul. | 'Arthur': A Lush Life Revisited, With Nanny on Board 2011-04-07T21:14:56Z Her self-consciousness dissipated, suddenly confronted by a more pitiable being. The Amy Adams Method 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z She embodied the willfulness and wiliness of a spoiled brat, yet she also made Salome's hideously perverted sexual awakening seem almost pitiable. Nina Stemme triumphs in `Salome' at Carnegie 2012-05-25T14:04:09Z Her works make us question not just her motives for looking at what the critic Susan Sontag – with typical hauteur – called "people who are pathetic, pitiable, as well as repulsive", but also our own. Diane Arbus: humanist or voyeur? 2011-07-26T10:56:29Z His sympathy was not reserved for the pitiable. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z But here the encounter was face to face, making Lyubasha’s furious vows both more terrifying and more pitiable. Opera Review: A Modern Media Spin on Ivan the Terrible 2014-03-06T11:43:55Z “Not Okay” may sympathize with its protagonist’s mental health struggles, but it also leeches its clout from real, pitiable people. ‘Not Okay’ Review: Posting Through It 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z You are desperate for employment – the means by which you turn from possibly the most pitiable creature on earth into someone with an actual role in life. The Secret Actor on desperate times 2013-05-07T07:59:01Z They added that his affability was crucial to helping viewers navigate the opening minutes of “Living With Yourself,” which focuses on the pitiable, rundown Old Miles. Paul Rudd, the One-Man Double Act 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Workers in the toy factory earn pitiable wages, but the elite are gathering in the riches. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z In "Cyrus," his eponymous character is both villainous and pitiable, but hardly ever likable and not at all easy to read. The unlikely stardom of Jonah Hill 2010-06-16T16:55:00Z Neither triumphs; Chekhov portrays them as equally sympathetic, equally pitiable. Antaeus Company's 'Uncle Vanya' is a sharp execution of midlife drift 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z “It showed their very real frustrations, without making them into pitiable objects that needed to be saved,” the 56-year-old added. Oscar wins for ‘CODA’ bring tears, elation to Deaf community 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Lloyd gives Bernard a pitiable desperation as he comes to find his accustomed life more and more empty. Review: Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’ Is Neither Brave Nor New 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Alexander has described the youths she knew as both pitiable and vaguely threatening. Art Review: Jane Alexander’s Work at St. John the Divine 2013-04-25T20:34:53Z An even splashier “Foxes” is on the horizon, with Cynthia Nixon and Laura Linney alternating as Regina and Birdie, the harsh protagonist and the pitiable drunk. Lillian Hellman is once again a presence in Washington 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z It is possible to be dashingly frightening as the Phantom, pitiable as Christine, etc. A musical whose time has gone: Three Post critics take on ‘Phantom’ 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, those of us who formed the audience for the show are left to contend with our participation in an extra-legal spectacle that, against all odds, transformed the unsympathetic Durst into a pitiable quarry. Robert Durst’s Grotesque Confession 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Eventually, the pitiable child is imprisoned by his usurping uncle in an isolated tower in the middle of a desolate plain. Review | What we all could use right now: Tales of magic, wonder and the triumph of goodness 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z But his depiction of Vanessa reveals a surprisingly old-school perspective, one that casts overweight women as pariahs and pitiable. The TV Watch: Louis C.K. Returns With His Brand of Dark Comedy 2014-05-04T21:45:12Z Just because it seems impossible now, it’s not pitiable to believe in peace. Nathan Englander Channels his Inner John le Carré 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z And when the satyr’s feathery garb is cut off, Mr. Kränzle’s N looks pitiable in a bloody body suit. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z If you regard them as grotesque, pitiable or in some way “other” — which is to say exactly as they are filmed — perhaps you should examine your conscience. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Love,’ First in a Trilogy Directed by Ulrich Seidl 2013-04-25T23:55:47Z In short, these immature, fairly pitiable protagonists go about their absurd project in all the wrong ways. "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy:" Gen Y gets its group grope 2011-09-02T01:01:00Z Despite extending the curfew, organisers still had to cut the sound – prompting a pitiable acoustic attempt at Paradise City. Axl blasts Reading 2010-08-31T09:23:00Z We’re not one psyche, one color, one culture, not all J. D. Vance’s cousins, and certainly not without hope, but the rest of America seems keen to reduce us to a pitiable monoculture. Barbara Kingsolver: By the Book 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In Edwardian England, her yearning for liberty in unspoiled Italia is pitiable, and real. Movies: Italy Porn (For Ladies Only) 2010-06-05T01:57:00Z “It made being single cool and glamorous instead of sad and pitiable — and that was a big step forward,” says Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, author of “Sex and the City and Us.” ‘Sex and the City’ helped fans navigate their 30s. Decades later, they still feel seen. 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Like all good Amandas, Potter’s is a pitiable black hole, unable to rein herself in and thereby spare her progeny her debilitating anxieties. A “Menagerie” of real feeling 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z We knew we were wrong to laugh, but we were too young to take much seriously, let alone a character like Sarah Jane, whom we found more pitiful than pitiable. The Performance of Racial Passing 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z He acts less like a man in free fall than like a guy who’s got it all figured out, which has the effect of making him at once pitiable, infuriating and kind of mysterious. Review: In ‘The Land of Steady Habits,’ Suburban Malaise, With a Twist 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z A toe-to-groin cast with some Frankenstein hardware moves her to the sidelines of adolescence, where she is neither one of the cool injured athletes nor the pitiable handicapped. ‘The Nakeds’: A young, broken girl and her nudist family 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Gaiman wasn't there to accept his award for "The Sandman: Overture,"but he did submit an acceptance speech that referred to the Puppies as "pitiable people" and "sad losers." Women and writers of color win big at Hugo Awards and the Puppies are even sadder 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z There were pitiable victims of bigotry – but often even they developed attitudes so warped that they remained outside society. Disability in film: is cinema finally moving with the times? 2012-11-12T12:25:57Z I like, too, the idea that, by dint of his need and diminished status, George might be pitiable to William, in the way Benji is pitiable to George. Emma Cline on the Movie Business 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Each of these man-children offers his own special blend of innocence and id, balancing the pitiable traits of slackness and aggression with more appealing qualities of sweetness and honesty. Movie Review: ?Jeff, Who Lives at Home,? a Duplass Brothers Comedy 2012-03-15T22:12:53Z It would be very easy to make a character in her situation—essentially being sold into high-class sex slavery—melodramatic or pitiable. Game of Thrones Watch: It's All in the Execution 2011-04-18T19:00:00Z His Phillipe, on the other hand, is movingly pitiable — terrified and vulnerable when the righteous musketeers arrive and remove the iron mask from his sun-deprived face. Synetic’s ‘Man in the Iron Mask’ has action and unexpected melodrama 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Arriving near the album’s end, this song finally bathes Ms. Jones in a pitiable light: she’s being foolish, and she can’t help it. Critics' Choice: New CDs by Sharon Jones, E-40 and Bill Callahan 2010-04-04T21:55:00Z It's a classic, pitiable case of adults praising kids for "saving the world," without considering that kids shouldn't have to. Why “Shrek” memes shutting down anti-abortion snitch hotline are just the beginning 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z I had never even heard of James Brown before I went to Columbus, which was certainly a pitiable lapse in my education. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Someone who is prone to self-pity can still be pitiable. Television Review: ?Enlightened? Stars Laura Dern on HBO - Review 2011-10-09T22:00:00Z In this world, playboys are pathetic and pitiable, which reads like a plea for modern audiences to cut maligned men more slack. ‘Casanova, Last Love’ Review: Reappraising a Philanderer 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z All of which has meant a “pitiable line of filmmakers trailing out the doorway” of the HBO headquarters, Mr. Powers said. Television: Sheila Nevins: The Force Behind HBO Documentaries 2010-06-12T03:52:00Z For most of the movie she seems near tears, like the pitiable gamines she paints, and ready to surrender to a case of the vapors. Review: Tim Burton Paints by Numbers in 'Big Eyes' 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The late Chinua Achebe contrasted him favourably to Conrad as someone who saw Africans as individuals, good, bad and indifferent, rather than as a pitiable or a frightening mass. Dr Livingstone had an all-but state funeral, yet now he makes us uneasy 2013-04-12T16:53:26Z That might be a suitable place for the pitiable humans remaining to contemplate the errors of our supposedly enlightened civilization. 'The Flooded Earth': Peter Ward's vision of a world awash in the consequences of climate change 2010-06-10T20:50:00Z In all honesty, the eugenics leader was a pitiable man. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z As the scam artist, he’s hardened, cynical and slightly pitiable. Must-devour TV: Bryan Cranston’s “Sneaky Pete” is your new binge-watch obsession 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z And it’s not just the context that’s pitiable; it’s the content. Review: ‘Philip Sparrow Tells All’ Paints a Samuel Steward Portrait 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Seeing ourselves as pitiable requires rethinking fundamental ideas about America’s history, purpose and destiny. Perspective | There’s no hope for America unless we can pity ourselves 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z At home the humiliation really sinks in, and for a fleeting while Shostakovich delves into Kovalyov’s anguish and shows him as pitiable. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z PG: Then let’s turn to your work: In “12 Years” and “Eclipsed,” you played characters that were truly pitiable. Lupita Nyong’o and Trevor Noah, and Their Meaningful Roles 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z For the characters, each living lonely, pitiable lives just seven years into the future, the caution comes too late. ‘Warning’ Review: Untethered From Humanity 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z And a subplot about a pitiable Haitian refugee and her children is no laughing matter. Books of The Times: New Comic Novels From Dave Barry and Tim Dorsey 2013-01-16T20:43:01Z Television never looks more pitiable than when it starts sounding like a bad film. Rewind TV: The Returned; Confessions of an Alien Abductee; The Fall; Dates; Agnetha: Abba and After – review 2013-06-15T17:00:05Z Between these two extremes she creates a character who is pitiable and yet too awesome to be pitied. Review: For These African Immigrants, Life Is a Haunted House 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z This is a kind of pitiable place for writers to show up. The New York Times Book Review's retirement plan 2013-04-29T15:03:00Z Pinkie and Rose are among the most pitiable couples in modern literature, and Mr. Joffe’s chilly film doesn’t sentimentalize their relationship, except for a crucial touch at the end. | 'Brighton Rock': ?Brighton Rock,? Film of Graham Greene Novel - Review 2011-08-25T23:02:20Z But if what happened is anything like what’s onscreen, the film’s inability to make sense of it is all the more pitiable. ‘Giants Being Lonely’ Review: Indie Filmmaking Being Twee 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z He’s also pitiable, insofar as a billionaire with godlike powers can be. Review: In ‘Made for Love,’ She Can’t Get Him Out of Her Head 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z He invites anyone who regards him as “sad or pitiable” to leave. ‘Dark Disabled Stories’ Review: When the World Isn’t Built for You 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z He sounds pitiable, which is to say electric. Critic?s Notebook: Rick Ross?s ?Rich Forever? Brims With Cameos 2012-01-12T00:03:24Z It is an exacting and pitiable characterization, which sheds some light on a tradition of abuse that damages everyone it grazes. ‘I Hear She’s a Real Bitch’: A Swaggering, Feminist Restaurant Memoir 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z He’s the unlikeliest, and hence perhaps the most pitiable, candidate for this kind of employment. ‘American Hero’ Finds Comedy in a Fast-Food Franchise 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Shunned by her family, coldly examined by psychologists, thrown down a well by her adopted mother and left to die, Samara was a pitiable figure. ‘The Ring’ Told Us in 2002 That the Medium Is the Monster 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z For Holbrook — who started portraying Twain in his 70s when he wasn’t yet 30 himself — there was no such pitiable dimension. Perspective | From Twain to Deep Throat, Hal Holbrook left an indelible mark on American entertainment 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Martin Amis, for one, felt his work in progress had been reduced to a "pitiable babble". Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing 2013-01-26T10:00:03Z Like the Court of the Master Sommelier, tests are gruelling and the success rate pitiable. The brave new world of high-end beer – and how to pair it with food 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z When it comes to healthcare, the United States is a pitiable mess. Steven Brill's 'America's Bitter Pill' tackles healthcare mess 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z There are big holes in his concept, starting with the rather important character of Rigoletto, Verdi’s hunchbacked, pitiable and tormented court jester, sung here by the admirable Serbian baritone Zeljko Lucic. Music Review: An Unsteady ‘Rigoletto’ Rat Pack 2013-01-29T13:33:55Z It’s a sign of independence and commitment to her vocation rather than a pitiable condition. Review: At Pasadena Playhouse, 'The Sound Inside' thrillingly unfurls like a series of puzzle boxes 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z They both have a lot riding on this journey, which they’ve come to believe is their last chance to wring some meaning out of lives other people see as pitiable. Review: Ted Geoghegan delivers more well-made pulp with clever ghost story 'Brooklyn 45' 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z When I saw Trump on Monday at the courthouse, he looked like a very lonely and pitiable man. How Trump may be coping with being caught 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z In the first sessions after someone died, the dead person’s feeling of victimhood prevailed, making them not only pitiable but also aggressive and dangerous. This Spiritual Tradition Could Be the Most Poetic Bereavement Therapy Ever Documented 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Apparently, nothing, because that’s what his defense did for the umpteenth game in completing this team’s startling tumble from the doorstep of the College Football Playoff semifinals to a pitiable pile of smoking wreckage. Plaschke: USC’s defense is again the reeking stain on Lincoln Riley’s regime 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z But the Browns still were able to beat the pitiable Texans in Houston. Analysis | NFL Reset: Team rankings, QB injuries that may shift the playoff picture 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z As characters, they have myriad possibilities, “vampire” being a category and not, like Frankenstein or King Kong, an individual; and unlike many monsters, they are not particularly pitiable. Which new vampire show is right for you this spooky season? Our critic weighs in 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z “Arbus’s work shows people who are pathetic, pitiable, as well as horrible, repulsive, but it does not arouse any compassionate feelings.” Review | Diane Arbus was accused of exploiting ‘freaks.’ We misunderstood her art. 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z At the end of the book, you come to this powerful conclusion: The concept of the heathen as either scary or pitiable is used to make Americans feel blessed by comparison. America and the "Heathen": How we set ourselves apart from "sh**hole countries" 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Yet our politics remains trapped in a pitiable chorus of Surely, now, we will act and Sorry, no, nothing to be done. Minority rules, children die: Our broken political system has lethal consequences 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z It's surrender, and a pitiable sight at a moment when courage is required to save American democracy and society from the neofascist assault. Another Trump hate rally: The threats get worse, and polite America turns away 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z The Bengals got Burrow the old-fashioned way: They were sufficiently pitiable to be in position to draft him. The 12 things we know about the NFL now that the Super Bowl is over 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z In other words, to the mainstream media Trump's Arizona rally was an example of a fading political movement and a gathering of pitiable people, not least the main attraction himself. Donald Trump calls for racial violence: White supremacists are listening, but the media laughs 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Prosecutor Nicholas Campbell QC told the court Mr Langley was in a "pitiable state" and had been left unable to walk, with bruises showing he had been "crawling on all fours" in his room. Squalor of Sheffield autistic man's attic 'prison' revealed in picture 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z But away from the carnival, you start to miss the almost pitiable charlatans, grifters and liars of that demimonde, replaced by villains of a more conventional — and hence more familiar — bent. Review | ‘Nightmare Alley’: The rise and fall of a con man, told in luscious, lurid detail 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Shortly after Faist exited the show in the summer of 2018, he sent his audition tape for another tormented character: the pithy but pitiable Riff. Mike Faist was a ‘blue-collar working theater actor.’ Now, he’s ‘West Side Story’s’ standout. 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z QB Cam Newton is coming off a pitiable passing performance in the defeat to the Dolphins. Analysis | NFL Week 14 power rankings: The Cardinals, Bucs and Patriots remain a step ahead 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z To be seen not as exceptional or pitiable, but as equal. Opinion | Many Afghan refugees are finding home again. That’s reason to give thanks. 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The pitiable state of last season’s NFC East, which made Washington a division winner at 7-9, raised expectations to unreasonable levels. Analysis | NFL Week 10 power rankings: Titans climb into No. 1 spot, even without Derrick Henry 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Coach Ron Rivera did an excellent job last season, and Washington won the pitiable NFC East basically by default. Analysis | Preseason NFL power rankings: It’s the Buccaneers and Chiefs until proven otherwise 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The horse would lope to the fence promptly for some corn, while the mule, skittish and wild-eyed, hung back with a kind of pitiable, crazy longing that made you throw an ear right quick. Celebrate the season of local sweet corn with this vegetarian corn and black bean salad recipe 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z The difference is, when I look at these odds and ends now, I don’t see them as pitiable remains. How to turn celery into a showstopper using odds and ends in your fridge 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Either way, I was, for a shining moment, not just blameless but pitiable and pitied. Jefferson Street 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z A pop music icon helps a pitiable pachyderm in Pakistan pack his trunk and pull up stakes for a nature preserve in Cambodia in the documentary “Cher & the Loneliest Elephant.” What’s on TV This Week: 'Cruel Summer,' 'Romeo and Juliet,' Earth Day docs and more 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z For Stanfield, the gifted actor of “Sorry to Bother You” and “Knives Out,” it’s a compelling tightrope of a slippery performance, poised between empathy and judgment for the pitiable O’Neal. Review: Potent history in ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z "Many of them are also charged with sedition and labelled as 'anti nationals'. Such prisoners, even though they are undertrials, are forced to be confined to pitiable conditions in prisons awaiting trial for years." Why is India denying prisoners spectacles and straws? 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Then I awoke to the game-day nightmare of the Rams sinking to their season low of handing a Christmas-present win to the pitiable Jets. Letters: How do you lose to the Jets? Ask the Rams 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z It was so ugly that being in first place in the pitiable NFC East doesn’t even seem like much of a consolation any longer. Analysis | Andy Dalton isn’t the answer as things worsen for Cowboys with Monday’s ugly performance 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Of all the king’s shills, the Federalists are perhaps the most pitiable. Opinion | Confirming Barrett is a fairy-tale temptation rife with dark trade-offs 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Trump has transformed the United States from the world's leader to a pitiable and pathetic pariah nation. Why they hate her: Kamala Harris, Black bodies and the white right 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Trump imagines himself to be a type of god, but he behaves like a small, petty, pitiable person. Dr. Lance Dodes on the dangers of 2020: "Trump is a psychopath who will destroy democracy" 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Excluding such pitiable people from the equation, Biden was for all intents and purposes correct in his comments about black people and Donald Trump. Joe Biden was right about black people and Trump — and the left needs to drop the scolding 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Bernard Mogesa, who leads the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights, a government oversight body, called the police action “pitiable and despicable.” Kenya’s coronavirus curfew begins with wave of police crackdowns 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z The urge to think of the Dome as something pitiable was apparent long before anybody actually saw what was inside. Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z His face was cradled in his hands, and he braced himself on his elbows—it was the same way my mother cried on the carpet in the mornings after a bad blackout, penitent, pitiable. “Found Wanting” 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z It’s not that easy to be officially eliminated from playoff contention in this season’s pitiable NFC East. Analysis | NFL power rankings Week 15: Ravens, 49ers stake their claims as league’s top two teams 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z They were back to being pitiable with their loss at home to the Buccaneers. Analysis | NFL power rankings, Week 13: Ravens keep top spot after their dazzling show in L.A. 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The idle but winless Bengals drop to No. 32, one spot ahead of the pitiable Jets. Analysis | NFL power rankings, Week 10: The Patriots aren’t first, and the Dolphins aren’t last 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Her eye was caught by a group of “pitiable, ragged people surrounded by a circle of curious, gaping onlookers.” A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Ironically, Trump’s overreach in the Ukraine scandal has begun to force at least some Americans out of their pitiable state of weakness. Impeachment and emotional whiplash: Can Americans rise up in hope and courage? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z They would have been, to some, those same old, pitiable Browns. The Browns kept the Ravens from running away with the AFC North 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The pitiable and pathetic man he sings about is the kind to toss off a homophobic slur with no regard for its damage, which Cameron does in character in the song. Alex Cameron, Jemima Kirke and the behaviour of men: 'I can't get away from writing about it' 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Pinned by her gaze, the representatives of the Trump Administration are almost pitiable. Kamala Harris Makes Her Case 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z It was also a pitiable one, confirmation that Taylor had never been wanted. Opinion | The Myth Was $150,000 in Fraud. The Real Story Is More Interesting. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Open, when it became the pitiable victim of celestial unkindness. At PGA Championship, Bethpage Black just might wipe that smile off golf’s face 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z It would almost be pitiable, except that men like Farah deserve nothing but contempt for a lifetime spent exploiting the gullibility of people he claimed to serve. Shed a tear for WorldNetDaily — or maybe don't. But the downfall of a far-right site is instructive 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z They’re immersed in a world of conspiracies, in the dark shadows where no data can be trusted, nothing is what it seems and those who buy the party line are pitiable sheep. Opinion | The Real Horror of the Anti-Vaxxers 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z A year later, the team overcame a pitiable start and a lackluster summer to return to the Series. Dodgers' Justin Turner says drive to 'finish it' is even greater this season 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z It’s like women are some kind of pitiable species. There's a reason that Germany's 'grumpy old men' are grumpier than ever I think, in short, that we can learn from the pitiable case of Paul Manafort. Opinion | Why Does Paul Manafort Lie? 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z It’s a rather sad and pitiable promo piece w that singular token ‘be best’ ornament making it all the more so. Melania Trump’s dream of a red Christmas trees invokes visions of “Handmaid’s Tale” acros... 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z For a chef this may sound pitiable, but happily, restaurant life is about work, about making the food, not consuming it. Real People Eat Quiche 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Reed, of “S-Town,” has been called homophobic for depicting McLemore’s history of fleeting entanglements, and his lack of a life partner, as something pitiable. How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Thought for Today: “Among these things but one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists, and that nothing is more pitiable or more presumptuous than man.” Today in History 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z "As far as I could see, all these pitiable wrecks had one thing in common. None of them was standing". Obituary: Denis Norden 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Yet even Nixon—drunk late at night and talking to paintings in the White House residence—seems relatively sane and pitiable compared with Donald Trump. With “Fear” and Trump, Bob Woodward Has a Bookend to the Nixon Story 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Politely allow the assumption that I was in a pitiable state, satisfied by the fact that I knew better? I’m in my 40s, child-free, and happy. Why won’t anyone believe me? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Why not crawl, in your reduced and pitiable form, to the finish line and at least get points for stamina? Opinion | Scott Pruitt, Gone but Not Forgotten 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Why not crawl, in your reduced and pitiable form, to the finish line and at least get points for devotion? Scott Pruitt: The fall of the king of the grifters 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Later that month, with a starter 36-handicap, I played in my first junior club competition, finishing last with a pitiable 12 Stableford points. My Last Round - Golf Digest 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Society still seeks to create an image of a disabled person's life as pitiable or a burden on society. How I saw Stephen Hawking's death as a disabled person 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The American gun fetish and its enabling commercial trade is tailor-made for people like this pitiable piece of human wreckage. Florida Will Seek Execution of Nikolas Cruz in Parkland Shooting Trial 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z In that tiny second, Thone transforms Nixon from national boogeyman to something more pitiable, and more subtle: Shakespearean tragedy, fallen king and family ghost. Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s excellent ‘Frost/Nixon’ brims with power and pathos 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z There's even something insightfully pitiable and feckless about Carvalho's Antonio too — he practically sleepwalks through the vicissitudes of his sinful privilege, as if he can't wait to be a ghost for a changing world. The eyes see everything in Brazilian historical drama 'Vazante' 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Pheobe Snow wrote a song which comes to mind as I read the news and the comments of pitiable readers who sympathize with the sentiments... Trump Alarms Lawmakers With Disparaging Words for Haiti and Africa 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z But Jackson is respected around the league, even with his pitiable record as a head coach. Analysis | The Browns chose Hue Jackson over their front office, and it actually makes sense 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The main cause for Metro’s steady descent into its current state of disrepair — the pitiable state of tracks and infrastructure that triggered the surge maintenance program known as SafeTrack — was years of underfunding. Opinion | Ed Gillespie has a recipe for Metro disaster 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Kenney describes the pitiable scenes when he makes an arrest: “They break down talking to me. They say, ‘I can’t believe this happened to me. Wave of addiction linked to fentanyl worsens as drugs, distribution, evolve 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z After a pitiable September, the patience shown by Seager offered encouragement for the rest of this month. Dodgers regain their summer swagger in Game 1 victory over the Diamondbacks 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Pheobe Snow wrote a song which comes to mind as I read the news and the comments of pitiable readers who sympathize with the sentiments expressed by donald trump. Trump Alarms Lawmakers With Disparaging Words for Haiti and Africa 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z And now, as Luck’s sixth NFL season enters Week 2, he remains sidelined following shoulder surgery and the Colts have regressed into, by the current looks of it, one of the league’s more pitiable teams. Remember when the future appeared so bright for Andrew Luck and the Colts? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Seems like the appropriate follow-on article would outline how to use the law to avoid a repeat of such a pitiable story... Protecting My Son Meant Wishing for His Death 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z "That was a very pitiable situation that human corpses are being treated like this by the animals." Collecting 'difficult memories' from the birth of two nations - BBC News 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Without the money and the power, Trump would be pitiable—a brash, vain, thin-skinned man who appears to have all the worst characteristics of male human beings rolled into one. How 9/11 led to President Donald Trump 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Howard certainly could’ve retired after an inglorious, injury plagued, pitiable end to his Phillies career, more than content with a legacy that produced enough mementos to fill an entire room in his home. Ryan Howard goes back to the minors hoping to extend career 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z He did not miss the third pitch, a pitiable fastball. Dodgers explode for 5-1 extra-inning victory over Giants 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z In the past, women whose lives included selling sex were rarely the subjects of their own histories, but were glamorous, vicious or pitiable objects in others’ accounts. The fallen woman: prostitution in literature 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z “These pitiable people can’t be allowed to die for no reason.” Autistic Boy’s Death One of Many Linked to Squalid ‘Care Center’ in China 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z If the goal was to widen bilateral cooperation and soothe the harsh feelings Mr. Trump has engendered with our neighbor and ally, the timing was pitiable. Opinion | Mexico may strike back. Here’s how. 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Soon the Cook name went around and they began getting "the most pitiable appeals" from people wanting to leave. The opera-loving sisters who 'stumbled' into heroism - BBC News 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The Bills’ pitiable performance included failing to fall on a loose football in the end zone on a kickoff return, producing a Jets recovery for a touchdown. NFL playoffs: The first round produces an NFC slugfest and an AFC snoozer 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z The pitiable pictures from the devastated city showed the true cost of Obama’s abdication. Aleppo and American decline 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z But in less than a week of thinking about it, he decided instead to embody his arguments in a story, with a main character of pitiable depth. The Real Reason Charles Dickens Wrote 'A Christmas Carol' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Some confused Texans, for their pitiful and pitiable part, claim that they invented cheese dip. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z A veteran job seeker who sits at home and passively applies to jobs is just as pitiable. Veterans Should Think Like Burglars 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The faces that linger longest in the memory, however, are the members of the two gangs — mocking, thoughtlessly cruel, almost too alien to be pitiable. Even decades later, the music, choreography and effect of 'West Side Story' are hard to resist 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z On his last day, the man left to rows of cheering coworkers – a moment I read as triumphant, but that Brooks declared pitiable. Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Does this make Emma a pitiable prototype for the passive female gull of mass culture, operating mindlessly under “false consciousness”, or a feminist avant la lettre who subverts bourgeois morality and suffers the consequences? Madame Bovary at 160: a bourgeois sex revolutionary 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Next up on the Ravens’ tour of pitiable NFL opponents are the Jaguars. NFL Power Rankings — Week 3: AFC heavyweights Broncos, Patriots and Steelers lead the way 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z All this is polished in a pitiable way with some pictures to convince them when I'm chatting with them. Meet the ‘Yahoo Boys’ – Nigeria's Undergraduate Conmen 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z This was already a pitiable position for Republicans, but Trump has made it significantly worse in the last few weeks. Donald Trump’s campaign is a raging dumpster fire — and the Republicans who endorsed him will have to defend it every day 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z On camera, the candidate sometimes cuts a pitiable figure: wandering around his apartment with an old man’s walk, slow, head slumped. Anthony Weiner and the Politics of Narcissism 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z He was a civilian again, and his private physician hoped the sea air would restore his pitiable health. The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z In the other trial, Adam Skelos emerged as a pitiable figure. The Man Who Terrifies Wall Street 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Some writers, in their desire to play dress-up as Woody Guthrie, have taken to writing maudlin essays on the victimhood and pitiable state of Trump fans. We must shame dumb Trump fans: The white working class are not victims 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z It of course provided much free food to many pitiable stray dogs. The World Is Full of Dogs Without Collars 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z “We’re already so pitiable, why are you making us donate, too?” Signing Up Organ Donors in China Can Be an Uphill Battle 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z This probably sounds grim and makes me appear to be a pitiable character. Why I choose to pay $400 to live in a box | Peter Berkowitz 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z In a continuation of bellicose rhetoric that has spiked in recent weeks, it said North Korea will also impose “lethal” military, political and economic blows on the South Korean government to accelerate its “pitiable demise.” NKorea to liquidate SKorean assets, fires missiles into sea 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In a continuation of bellicose rhetoric that has spiked in recent weeks, it said North Korea will also impose "lethal" military, political and economic blows on the South Korean government to accelerate its "pitiable demise." North Korea has responded to new sanctions from South Korea by firing short-range ballistic missiles into the sea in a show of defiance and vowing to "liquidate" all remaining South Korean assets at former cooperative projects in the North 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The anger is, in a way, pitiable as well as frightening. Donald Trump, god of rage: The decline of White America & the rise of an American strongman 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Mosquitoes are surely one of the least pitiable creatures on earth. The Vampires That Feed on Vampires 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z He finds such people pitiable as well as culpable, because they were at once grotesquely innocent and guilty. Primo Levi’s Indestructible Humanity 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z But they were one of the league’s most disappointing teams, going 7-9 and finishing out of the postseason while failing to take advantage of the pitiable competition in the dreadful NFC South. Saints QB Drew Brees lays out his approach to retirement 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z If Smith's form has been patchy, Michael Clarke's has been pitiable. England on verge of Ashes glory 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z "Simply by dint of his art, good-looking Mr Cooper persuades us that he is this pitiable, and soon engagingly likeable grotesque." Elephant Man earns Bradley Cooper rave reviews - BBC News 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z What kind of pitiable life allows a person to do what he did? Rainier Beach community sad, angry over doughnut-shop attack 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The Carolina Panthers and Atlanta Falcons will play for first place in the NFC South and the pitiable division’s lone postseason berth. NFL playoff picture: Two spots, four division titles at stake this weekend 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Roberts was struck by the pitiable quality of the public trial lawyers who represented low-income defendants. NBA players' union chief is 'a woman who's not going to back down' 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Such honesty only made Cutler sound more endearing in a week in which Kromer's betrayal and Marshall's rebuke actually made people pity a player rarely pitiable. Under Marc Trestman definition of accountable, no one is 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z But if so, this only suggests the pitiable limits of niceness and its utter irrelevance for the production of something approaching justice, or for that matter even insight. What Chris Rock got wrong: “Nice” white people perpetuate white supremacy 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The indecision expressed by both creatures was pitiable. The Trials of Penelope Fitzgerald 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z It must be assumed that her notes went the same way as those pitiable books that hellish night when she saw the brilliant crimson sky and realised the observation was no longer relevant. Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own remixed to form new story 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Attachment to a different conception of the good life became by default a pitiable recoiling into crude medievalism. Scotland's complicity with empire does not disqualify it from independence 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z I’m embarrassed to recall that my adolescent love of words doubled as a strategy to assuage those fears; it was both a pitiable desire for acceptance and a practical necessity for survival. Between the World and Ferguson 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z But it’s not as if worker productivity in either country is pitiable. Here's a Radical Way to End Vacation Email Overload 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The U.S. is currently ranked a pitiable 35th in the world in broadband capacity according to the World Economic Forum, with even smaller nations outpacing us in cutting edge telecommunications. Mega-Mergers Are Killing Innovation 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Some people find us precious and others find us pitiable, but neither mode of thinking is accurate, and both feel condescending. One Daughter, One Mother, Two Wheelchairs and Nothing Remarkable 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z And while we began the season watching Philip killing two Afghan contacts, then murdering an innocent kitchen worker who spotted him, I’m not sure he’s been more monstrous–to borrow Anton’s term–or more pitiable. The Americans Watch: Man or Monster? 2014-03-27T15:21:47Z As his command of the language returned, so, it seemed, did his awareness of his pitiable condition. The New Old Age Blog: A Lost Language 2013-04-24T18:21:24Z Also, with wages averaging £64,000 a year, they are too well paid to be pitiable. North Sea oil fuelled the 80s boom, but it was, and remains, strangely invisible 2013-04-19T16:15:02Z If Woods had never regained his golf gifts, it would have been a pitiable example of a fate so harsh it exceeded any of his misbehaviour. Tiger Woods has his old bite back 2013-04-02T12:59:01Z Unfortunately, the recent negotiations on the draft outcome document for Rio+20 were pitiable. An Ailing Planet's Path to Rio+20 2012-05-25T17:15:00.223Z It seemed to her that nothing in the world was so pitiable as a sick artist; always the servant of the public’s curiosity, he was now the helpless prey of it. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Enid was in a pitiable state of distress; the red circles round her eyes were absolutely disfiguring; she wrung her hands, and contorted her whole body. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z A Pike, with the wilderness at his back, and civilization advancing in front, is sometimes a ridiculous, and oftener a pitiable, specimen of humanity. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Seeing him such a rank and pitiable outsider, Mrs. Topham contemptuously spared him. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Among this defenceless and pitiable group the brutal tyrant went with his sword and slashed right and left until he had killed a score or so. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z Young people that sting a comrade when out of temper, that call him names, that reproach him with his infirmities, are far more wretched and pitiable creatures than those whom they try to irritate. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z For a time he persuaded himself that he loved this pitiable child. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Men who had loved Betty, women who had been envied because of her friendship for them, rallied about her now, in her dotage, and helped her keep up the pitiable farce of queenship. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Some have to lament over the wreck of their departed wealth and estates, of which pitiable number I am, my affairs sunk into irretrievable ruin. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z Will the poor parent, whose lot is pitiable enough as things are, be able to stand the loss? Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z Oh, it is pitiable to see men tamely submitting to a vile master! The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z And why pitiable, I pray thee! shouted the former, with a voice like a trumpet, lifting his calm forehead to the sky and gathering his magnificent robe about him as he spoke. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Their charge remained as helpless as before, and there was something pitiable in her beseeching cries, that almost tempted them to accede to her request and leave her there in the street. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z A dog with toothache, rubbing his face on the ground and crying, is a pitiable sight. A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them 2012-03-25T02:00:07.687Z The purpling features of the chief were streaming with perspiration; the man was in a frightful dilemma, and his plight was pitiable. The Mardi Gras Mystery 2012-03-24T02:00:18.017Z During the seventh and eighth centuries the Merovingian line of Frankish kings degenerated to a condition of weakness both pitiable and ridiculous. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z For a moment he was a pitiable sight. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z At that moment, he paid no attention to them, took no interest in their pitiable state. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z I was in a pitiable state of terror; shaking at thought of the man's return, and in an ague when I considered the power over me, which the paper I had signed gave him. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z For several months the patient's condition was pitiable. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z “Time is comin’ when sinner mus’ die” and there is none so pitiable as the lost sinner. Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z He stood there in the blazing sun, a listless, pitiable figure, held upright only by the thongs that bound his wrists; and Monsieur Elbel as he looked at him, felt not a little irritated. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z A pitiable humility was about the girl, and on sight of it Ann's manner changed. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z A man without this majesty is ridiculous amid the flourish and decorations procured by money, pitiable in the faded habiliments of poverty. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z He made no resistance; in fact, he seemed utterly cowed; and a pitiable object he looked, crouched on the floor, with his face turned to the wall. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z But it was a pitiable attempt, and his eyes sank. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z Thus do we outrage the child's inborn sense of beauty, which is also the sense of health and fitness, and teach it that deformity is not shocking, not pitiable even, but just "funny." Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Still more pitiable was the condition of the court. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z She had lost her mother when a baby, he said; but I thought her very far from pitiable,—she seemed to do so exactly as she pleased. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z They were pitiable objects, their eyes bright with fever, their cheeks haggard with famine, their feet blistered and bleeding from long wandering in the woods. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z He was a pitiable object as, hot, dishevelled, and panting, his tie awry and his collar rumpled, he stared, dumfounded, into his superior's flushed and indignant face. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z And being gone, said I, 'Master of those twain I know not which is the more pitiable.' The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z There was something so pitiable in this abject discomfiture--in this refusal to be insulted--that Miss Wolfe's resolution failed her. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z He was one of the fools whose heart was broken over a chimera; of course the successful statesman could afford to be generous to so pitiable a wreck. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z She felt herself very weak, and her armament seemed pitiable. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The more guileless and innocent a woman is--quite fit to soar aloft with newly-sprouted wings--the more abjectly pitiable a victim. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Marched up to Eli's door a pageant brave to the eye of sense, and to the vulgar judgment noble, but, to the philosophic, pitiable more or less. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Gauguin has been dead now for some years and it is time that the recollection of these pitiable attempts to attract the attention of heedless Paris were dead also and forgotten. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z It is pitiable to see the poor shivering in their thin cotton clothes in such weather. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z He looks a pitiable object, and his much-frogged uniform, and the blanket, revolver, and other things that I had 383 given him are all gone. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z It was pitiable to see the weak, unstable man fluttering in borrowed plumes, blown out with a proud conviction in his heroic strength of character. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z His pitiable existence had been sweetened by his brother's inventive tenderness, and his own contented spirit, which, his antecedents considered, was truly remarkable. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Second, because, let this case go as it may, I am still left under a cloud—That is a pitiable statement. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z There can be no more pitiable sight than a scientist in the employ of superstition dishonoring himself without assisting his master. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Though her voice was quiet, the suffering in her eyes was pitiable to see. For the Major A Novelette 2012-02-10T03:00:17.550Z He appeared throughout in a fainting condition, and hung his head in a pitiable state of prostration. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z It was a pitiable object to look at. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z This pitiable sight led him to conclude that none of the company could have escaped death. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z Now, the tiresome sand had again accumulated in the kidneys, and the patient was in a pitiable state. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z The work took thirty minutes, and the extricated Captain was in a pitiable condition, being badly bruised and having swallowed a lot of salt water. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z In truth, I must have cut a sufficiently pitiable figure, for my dress was all fouled from head to foot, and my face, I have no doubt, the complement of my dress. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Dramatists were no longer striving to give beautiful expression to the terrible, heroic, or pitiable in story, but seeking to construct acting plays out of stock situations and stock characters. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The greatest precision was observed in their rules of life; and the great public knew nothing at all of the real and rather pitiable existence of these dwellers in silent places. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z In his dripping perruque he cut a figure odd enough, and sufficiently pitiable. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z And at that moment, upon the heels of Hamet's words, as though intentionally to belie them, Hassan Akbar suddenly arrested the motion of his body and suddenly ceased from his pitiable cry. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z It’s aggravating in some ways, pitiable in others, and don’t forget hopeless. White Sox offseason just keeps getting worse 2012-01-25T17:58:00Z His elocution is pitiable, and when, after his lecture, Wendell Phillips stepped forward and said a few graceful words of farewell to him, it was like the Rose complimenting the Cabbage.... Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z One gesture she made—lifted both arms to them in pitiable pleading. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Overwhelmed with grief at the pitiable condition to which we are reduced, we conjure you to abandon everything, and embark without delay. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z The poor creature had scarcely slept for over a week, and her distress was pitiable. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z From a hale, haughty, self-reliant man of sixty, he had turned into a pitiable invalid, and looked prematurely old and feeble. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z His lamentations, resources, and importunity in begging 115 are most pitiable. The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z Continually Beltani brought and held to her lips the refreshment that she craved, as often to have it thrust away with a gesture of pitiable repulsion. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z She recovered from her insensibility, only to give way to the most pitiable anguish. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z The poor man and his wife were in a pitiable state, their eyes glued to the clock which stood on the mantel. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z It was pitiable to see the effort the poor boy made to drag his unwilling limbs out of the road. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z I have often thought of your pitiable case. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z For a second the blue eyes closed to shut out the pitiable sight, and then opened again upon Baba. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Here is life, some of it is good, some of it is bad; it is all somewhat pitiable, to be laughed at rather than cried over; nobody is deserving of indignant blame or abuse. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z A navy that might compete with the most flourishing, is reduced to a pitiable condition, from its being placed under the direction of incompetent and dishonest persons. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z It is pitiable, I allow, but also contemptible; but, judging by what I see, it appears to me a more irresistible delusion than ambition. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z The case of the merchant’s youngest daughter was truly pitiable. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z The eager suppression of herself was pitiable, for the power of her self-control showed how great was its necessity. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The covering had been torn away by the hurricane, and the wind had so tossed the poor things about, that all their feathers were knocked off, and they presented a most pitiable appearance. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z In addition, they were in a state of most pitiable terror. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z She found her father in a pitiable state of total imbecility. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z A woman, but a few hours since delivered of a child—and her first child, alone, and in a forest, far from the habitations of men,—her case was indeed pitiable. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z It was really pitiable that all this pleasant twilight delight should be so roughly disturbed. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z His years in Florence had been spent in the “hubbub of imminent war,” and he writes indignantly of “the rottenness of these pitiable petty States and the incredible fantastic tricks of their abominable rulers.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Unable any longer to sustain himself, the pitiable animal fell down in the awful agonies of death, and in a few moments expired. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The pitiable scene that met her eyes as she approached Do�a Carmen's bedside pacified her for the moment. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z He became, therefore, despairing; and had that perfect apathy, that indifference to the future, which is the most pitiable evidence of extreme wretchedness. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z It was now the 1st of May, and the expedition was in a pitiable plight. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z Their attempts have been in every instance pitiable failures. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z The man was about thirty years of age, and as he leaned against the marbled pillar of the "palace," supporting himself upon his stick, he presented a pitiable sight. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z The savage glee of the workmen, who looked on at the pitiable scene, made a very painful impression on Raimundo. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z And, after all, it is a pitiable thing, it seems to me, to pass one's life tearing to tatters those who produce! Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z Georgette did not say a word; she took pity on her escort's pitiable state. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z Reed, living in a city of twenty thousand inhabitants, many of them the personal friends of Abraham Lincoln, after a vigorous search for evidence, is able only to present this pitiable apology. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z One evening the following winter the mother came to the house of the teacher in a most pitiable condition. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z Only most pitiable inquiry was in her eyes. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z The Arrandoon regained her position, and lost her list, but there lay the Canny Scotia, a pitiable sight to see, like some giant overthrown, silent yet suffering. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z He became an itinerant Methodist preacher, with the pitiable salary of $300 a year. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z The unfair efforts that Christians have been putting forth to drag Lincoln into their waning faith betray a pitiable imbecility. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z And all that beheld them in so pitiable a plight, gave them freely bread to eat, beer, and sometimes meat; for everywhere they told the tale how they had been despoiled by robbers. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z As for the prince, he was indeed a pitiable object! Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z And from this, every sane mind may see and know what is the true root of such rash and pitiable murders; whether it is injured honour, or scandalous and detestable greed and cupidity. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z Mrs. Edwards was then at the weaver's in pitiable distress, and Rhys rushing hither and thither almost as wild. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z Referring to this statement, Holland says: "The eagerness with which this volume strives to cover Mr. Lincoln's memory with an imputation so detestable is one of the most pitiable exhibitions which we have lately witnessed." Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z A pitiable episode occurred while we were surveying our surroundings, and preparing for a start. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z She presented a pitiable spectacle; being scarcely able to stammer. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z This occurred a few days later, to the sorrow of all those who assisted her and who had knowledge of this pitiable case. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z Levers had to be applied on both sides, and the unlucky oxen were lashed with rhinoceros whips, until they presented a pitiable spectacle. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z There was only one more pitiable sight in college, and that was the sole student on the staircase who ate meat and drank wine; the scout bagged food and drink from him ceaselessly. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z But though not drowned, a more pitiable sight could scarcely be presented. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z So to them "love" was a joke, and men "in love" were victims, whether ridiculous or pitiable. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Was there not a touch of genius in her pitiable yet dauntless masquerade? An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Theirs is a pitiable weakness; his a trusted belief. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z After papa gave up business I secured a position, and I am now working regular hours every day; were it not for my father's pitiable condition, I believe I should be perfectly happy. The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo 2011-11-15T03:00:18.930Z Nevertheless, the lack of sympathy is a pitiable infirmity, for it prevents a man from scaling the heights of Morality. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z The Mongols who captured Baghdád in 1258 a.d. brought the pitiable farce of the Caliphate to an end. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z We have that poor, horrid, common, but pitiable Mrs. Twining's own word for it, you know. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z It is one of the pitiable effects of African superstition that its subjects look with fear and dread on what the denizens of civilization look with love and tender regret. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z Champagne is very insidious; and two glasses may throw her into this pitiable condition. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Had her own position not been such a pitiable one she would never have been duped by him, by his impudent assurance, his brazen lies, his reckless promises. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z Their condition was pitiable as very little could be done to relieve their sufferings. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z She tried, in a pitiable way, to rebuff temptation by taking the sole means at hand of ending these desperate reflections. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z How needful, then, it is to raise a warning voice,—to seek, by faithful testimony, to counteract man's pitiable self-complacency. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z A decidedly old lady, persisting in going with her head uncovered, is a pitiable object, and scarcely looks respectable. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z It was a pitiable sight to see him in his growing blindness and wasting frame armed by his negro servant along the streets of Atlanta in his last visits to the place. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z I never allow any begging in my Mission, I don't care how pitiable the object may be. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z She was so alive, now, to a sense of his being very indignant, that this realization frightened her, and she let him see, with pitiable candor, just how much it frightened her. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z But he was still often reduced to pitiable shifts, the most popular of which is connected with the sale of his solitary novel, the Vicar of Wakefield. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z In 1740 he went raving mad, and frenzy ceased only to leave him a more pitiable idiot. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z The moralists say, “Here are problems,” and these pitiable creatures say, “Here are impostors and deceptions.” Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z What to thee now, O pitiable boy, for these laudable efforts,825 What shall the pious Æneas, befitting such nobleness render? Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z His was a pitiable fate; but his name merits honorable mention among men, who, like Miranda in South America, have inspired great deeds which they themselves could not accomplish. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z From a pitiable state of anarchy, France at once appeared on the theatre of Europe, great, powerful, and united. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z The pitiable limitations of men as talkers was painfully evident. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z The evils of war were precisely such as appealed most directly to his imagination; they were so personal, they were so domestic, they were so pitiable, they were so full of tears. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z The army itself was in a pitiable condition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z They were down-trodden and oppressed, and their pitiable state was not improved by the extensive conflagrations, which periodically devastated their quarter. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z It blew “great guns” for the next fifty-six hours, and the unfortunate passengers—Tom Flinders included—were reduced to a state of misery pitiable to behold. The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa 2011-10-10T02:00:22.657Z At night the burning forests below were a gorgeous though pitiable sight. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z They stand on slippery ground, 220 How pitiable their lot! how miserable! Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z To be a villain against one's will is an unnatural and pitiable situation. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z The beneficiary takes very little active part in the affair, merely looking careworn, distressed, and pitiable, and throwing in a word of corroboration, or a sigh, or an acknowledgment, as the case may demand.... Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook 2011-10-06T02:00:33.843Z With grief, poor Tandy almost took leave of his senses, and it was indeed a pitiable sight to see him wandering aimlessly to and fro upon the coral beach, casting many a hopeless glance seawards. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z "I have wandered from the Truth and lost myself, my child," said Caleb, with a pitiable expression in his bewildered face. The Cricket on the Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home 2011-10-02T02:00:12.587Z Laura saw at once that he was an object of ridicule; and his entire want of tact, and his pitiable simplicity, had never before struck her so forcibly. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z She rose to her feet and staggered with weakness, she had eaten nothing since morning, and the nervous shock and strain through which she had gone had reduced her to a pitiable condition. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z To behold a half-trained college eight labouring past Nuneham, at the end of some fifteen minutes of toil, jealous to beat the time of some rival crew, used to be a pitiable sight. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z If they hadn't been pitiable, Livingstone could have laughed at the breaks Crittenden constantly made, at the way he was everlastingly showing himself up as entirely an outsider to their world. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Nothing is really more pitiable than the helpless woman who, when occasion demands, finds herself unable to do ordinary cooking. Cookery for Little Girls 2011-09-17T02:00:25.833Z They were not introduced to the Marsdens, who, after the entrance of these new visitors, sat awhile in the pitiable situation of ciphers, and then took their leave. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z With rude unskillful hands, yet with pitiable tenderness, he strove to arrange her blood-matted hair, he pillowed her head upon his hat again. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z That's the reason I object to the type of drama in which Jewish manners and peculiarities of the most degenerate and pitiable of our race are exposed on the pillory. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z She perceived with pain the tranquillity of every one," reports Mademoiselle, "and I have never seen any sight so pitiable as her state when she realised the real attitude of those surrounding her bed. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z I listened, amazed, to this school-girl chatter, marvelling that she herself believed such pitiable nonsense. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Their pitiable state can be better imagined than described. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z The condition of the slaves was now pitiable in the extreme. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z As soon as she stopped at the door of the house, the cat’s cries were quite pitiable to hear. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z My state was pitiable, and it must have been experienced to be appreciated, for such feelings cannot be expressed. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z There is a stupidity about them which makes them perfectly pitiable. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z After the attack had begun, shiploads of these same men returned wounded, and arrived in our hospital in an indescribably pitiable condition. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z His voice and eyes were pitiable; but Christina showed him no pity. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z The poor little dog’s pitiable embarrassment as to which he should follow, his evident dread of losing either or both his friends by favouring one or neither, was very funny. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z She remained in a most pitiable state until the next day. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z There lay poor dog Dave, and a pitiable sight he was, and no sign of either water or food was to be seen. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z I now began to see the extent of my folly in leaving home in such a pitiable plight, without money or friends. The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z True, she looks like a pitiable object, with her opium-drugged infant wrapped in that old blue cloak, but she is not. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z The victims were, indeed, martyrs to disease, and their fate is as pitiable as though they had really been martyrs for the faith. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z The Princess regained her chamber in a pitiable state. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z The pitiable, pleading look with which he replied went straight to my heart. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z He felt sure of Marion’s sympathy, but he wanted to make himself as pitiable an object as possible. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z But many are imbued with a pitiable quality for their neglect. City Room: Still a City Fixture, Many Call Boxes Overstay Their Welcome 2011-08-25T04:15:32Z The serfs were in an even more pitiable state than before. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z She glanced at Kindelon, telling herself that he must surely see the pitiable ridicule of which he was being made the butt. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z This residuum of existence of old animals is truly pitiable, and, taking everything into consideration, it is not an enormous dose of happiness we have left them in not sacrificing them when they were young. The Pros and Cons of Vivisection 2011-08-23T02:00:31.033Z At any rate the caller returned to camp posthaste minus his gun, horn, and hat, and with an expression that was indeed pitiable. Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose and Illustrations from Life 2011-08-23T02:00:29Z A man on his knees is a pitiable object, and pity, they say, is akin to love. A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce 2011-08-22T02:00:57.327Z It is in the synagogue; and their expectations are sharpened by the presence of a pitiable object, a man whose hand is not only paralyzed in the sinews, but withered up and hopeless. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z The carelessly-applied term of 'atheist' is to my thinking a name fit only for some pitiable braggart. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z It is a pitiable case, and I don't see myself the wisdom of bringing them to Roxburgh. Salome 2011-08-20T02:00:12.970Z Though I immediately cut the wolf out of the bunch of cattle and he limped off in full view, the dogs were too exhausted to follow, and their condition was truly pitiable. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z Their superstitions are often of the darkest, and, at best, of the most pitiable nature. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z This terrible strain on the integrity of the men was the cause of a pitiable execution that took place on the line of march one day. Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army 2011-08-19T02:00:11.243Z They do not know, in their pitiable ignorance, the towers and bridges that can be made from the scourings of a washboard factory. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z The condition of the women was most pitiable. Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z I had once heard that through riches one might be free; yet that which I saw in these streets was bondage of the most pitiable sort, for it was entirely self-imposed. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z It was a pitiable effort by any standard, especially by a player of his glorified stature. Woods slump continues with missed cut 2011-08-13T00:13:35Z This diminutive of false pride is one of the most pitiable of passions, and should be combated by manly efforts. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Mr. Parlow was undeniably glad to see his daughter safe; otherwise, he would never have overlooked the pitiable 292 state his horse was in. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z Since he had reached that place he had tasted no food, and the young pilgrim found him lying in a pitiable state, and placed near him a portion of his rice. Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India 2011-08-09T02:00:29.493Z It was actually a pitiable sight to see. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z It was presently a question at Blunder Cove: who was the more wan and pitiable, “By-an’-by’s” baby, being sick, or “By-an’-by,” being anxious? Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z Medusa's victims could not have been more pitiable. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z The interior was damp and cold and dark; with our pitiable lamps burning, the temperature of the top was fairly moderate, but at the bottom it was below zero. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z We found hundreds of injured and dying, some of them in a pitiable condition. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z She was so pure, so noble in her pride, so touching in her submission, so pitiable in the way she felt her position. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z Others were in pitiable plight, but finally recovered. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z "We have been, sergeant," I replied; "but if I had been master, we should not have robbed these poor wretches; they are in a pitiable condition enough already." The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z You must realize already what a pitiable figure you will be, how deep and lasting will be your disgrace. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z "And it would mean the end of this fearful complication, a sad, a pitiable end--but still an end!" The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z One suffers in sympathy, you know, and, when I saw his mother’s pitiable sorrow, it made me feel sorry too. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z The case is more pitiable;—more rare—therefore, perhaps, more shocking; but why more hateful? Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z It was pitiable that the Duke of Wellington should have had no more self-respect than to compromise his great career by fortifying London against an imaginary enemy. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Suicide proceeding from disease of the mind is always pitiable. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z There is a pitiable monotony of program in all English-speaking puppet-shows. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The spectacle of a man condemned to death, starving and naked, hunted through the woods and waters by dogs and men, is one of the most pitiable that can be imagined. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z Their infatuation had therefore its pitiable as well as its outrageous aspect. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z What is more pitiable than when a person who desires to be a benefactor looks in his chest and finds it empty? The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z It is thought dangerous to be wrecked and not to have taken part in this pitiable exhibition. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Truly it was a pitiable spectacle that met their gaze when at last a breach was made in the masonry and they penetrated into the cell. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z He was the most wretched and pitiable human being I ever saw,—a sight which horrified us all, and even drew words of compassion from some of our prison guards. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z It was, however, pitiable to observe that the poor wretch did not understand one-half of what had been done or said during the whole course of his trial. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z His features became distended, as it were, and acquired a feverish effect; his eyes had a pitiable, beseeching look, like those of a child in the period of teething. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z There was no more pitiable creature upon earth than she at that moment. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z I do this rather than be forced to play behind four such pitiable dubs as you are. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z The poor fellow's pitiable appearance, as he sat there despondently and longingly gazing down on the beautiful valley below, was such as to appeal to a heart of stone. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z It is pitiable to think of the long martyrdom that Leech suffered from an abnormal nervous organization, which ultimately made street-noises absolute agony to him. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z Her moaning and begging, her intense grief, were pitiable in the extreme, and brought tears to the eyes of stout, brawny men. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z His state of mind on his return must have been pitiable; but he sought his cabin without a word, and remained there all the rest of the day. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z It was pitiable to note the squire's anxiety when the Australian mail was due. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z The Rector exchanged glances with his wife, whose face wore a very pitiable look. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z The phrase descriptive of her movement is used advisedly and with good reason; for fright, exhaustion and the terrible heat of the June meridian had reduced the young school-mistress to a most pitiable condition. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Notwithstanding the great courage and ferocity of this formidable beast, he will utter the most pitiable groans and howls when seriously or mortally wounded. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z When Barber came to there was no trace of the hyena, but he and his fellow were in a pitiable plight. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The destruction of works of art and of the beautiful cathedrals built in the Middle Ages cannot be explained and defended in this way, but some other pitiable and often childish excuse is offered. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z “Come, come, lass, you don’t eat,” her uncle kept saying; and the poor girl’s struggles to keep back her tears were pitiable. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z "And what am I to do?" asked the girl, with that helpless and irresolute air which is so pitiable. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z He fell with violence to the ground, and stunned by fear and pain, stole back again in this pitiable plight to his chamber. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z And then at the recollection of his father’s white, stricken face and pitiable aspect, Philip clenched his fists and wished he had insisted upon an earlier meeting. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Alone, without food or water, and no knowledge how or where to procure either, no knowledge, even, of what direction to take; in truth, the fugitive was in pitiable case. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Did she not owe her life—and more than her life—to this man already, and now to be flinging her pitiable and unworthy suspicions at him! Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z A most pitiable exhibition, truly!—but the record must be made a faithful one, even in this melancholy instance. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z At the end of an hour of this unequal battle, the condition of the Lawrence was pitiable. Four American Naval Heroes Paul Jones, Admiral Farragut, Oliver H. Perry, Admiral Dewey 2011-07-04T02:00:24.047Z What on earth had Fordham to communicate that concerned himself—that availed to throw his father into so pitiable a state of agitation? Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Often, when she had been laughing with a visitor at some jest, Johanna would find her in a state of most pitiable distress. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z Mr. Jones ridicules the would-be reformers of London, and represents their efforts as resulting in a pitiable fiasco. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Delay makes our condition continually worse and more pitiable; and who shall absolve us from the shame, if Kotzebue leave German ground unpunished, and shall enjoy in Russia a fortune acquired by his treason? The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z The condition of these domestic servants is much less pitiable than one would suppose; they are so numerous that they have hardly any thing to do, and spend half the day in sleeping. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Above all, incurable means to many patients that finally the victim is to become more and more subject to the pains and ills of his "incurable" ailment until he becomes perhaps a pitiable object. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z His agitation, when she admitted him, was intense, almost pitiable. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z And to find that to other people our lot in life seemed pitiable and poor, was an immense surprise to me, and no little grief! Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z A Pole fighting for German autocracy was in as pitiable position as a Slesviger fighting for the enslaving of his own land. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z Mrs. Southey, after two years' absence, returned to Keswick, the family home, and closed her pitiable existence there. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Some of these cases are pitiable because the effects are quite beyond control, and make it almost impossible for them to do justice to themselves. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z He made a pitiable effort to pull himself together. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z I went to see her to-day, and the situation is pitiable. The Best Policy 2011-06-13T02:00:32.860Z Is there anything more pitiable than a pencilled eye with the charcoal half rubbed off? Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Scott’s distress in thinking of her was pitiable, and he found some relief in pouring himself out to the sympathetic Severn, who had known her well. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It is often pitiable to see young men who have not the physical strength necessary for athletic exercises, or the dexterity required for them, faithfully trying to accomplish by effort what others do with ease. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z It was long before we could recognize in this pitiable object, my generous deliverer, the Son of the Desert. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Her anxiety was pitiable, and it was some time before he could get the details of the story from her. The Best Policy 2011-06-13T02:00:32.860Z Man’s ignorance of spiritual agents and forces in your day, together with the prevalent hallucination devil-ward, made you a humble and pitiable martyr to simple truth-telling. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Louder and louder sounded her oft repeated cries, and the cub in my bag answered with pitiable whines. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z His condition is quite pitiable, though largely imaginary. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Brother to pitiable wanderers, there are, nevertheless, no traces of cant, no "Russian pity" à la Dostoiëvsky, no humanitarian or socialistic rhapsodies in his work. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z The fellowship he had won at Oriel College was forfeited for intemperance, and he never conquered the habit, but sank from depth to depth, a pitiable example of genius gone to waste. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z And bitter tears rose to her eyes as she thought of the contrast between the mental image she had cherished and the poor and pitiable reality. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z The very fact that a woman must take such grave risks in pursuing any course of action not countenanced by her lawful protectors, makes her condition the more pitiable under oppression. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z Nell occupied the intervals between visits to her husband in frantic efforts to devise some means of proving Jack's innocence, or in pitiable weeping, shut within her squalid hotel-room. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z Oh, it was pitiable! this leaving the great inherited task to the upstart rich. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z The inspiration of the poet, the passion of the lover, the enthusiasm of the martyr, have their languors and shortcomings that often depend on very pitiable material causes. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z The state of the country was pitiable, and Dublin looked all the more wretched and squalid by reason of its patches of gaiety and wealth. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z They inhale, they imbibe, they are steeped in the idea, that the great business of their life is marriage, and if they fail to secure that they will become utterly bankrupt and pitiable. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z I dare say I looked a pitiable object enough. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z We must take him in and shelter and care for him, since he has fallen helpless and pitiable on our hands. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z Here we behold the pitiable sight of 225 two young girls, harnessed like mules, and attached to a lead rope, pulling inch by inch, and foot by foot, a large canal-boat filled with merchandise. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z The fear of dying excepted, there is nothing more pitiable than the fear of living. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z The slaves are pitiable; the slaveholders are detestable; the slave-hirers are contemptible. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z There was pitiable, livid dread in her face now. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z “An Angel came to me and said, ‘O pitiable foolish young man! William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The cool indifference of those who have crossed the ocean many times is in marked contrast to these panic-stricken, and really pitiable creatures. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z Perhaps the finest thing about the Three-Cent Cult is the fact that it runs counter to one of the most pronounced and pitiable traits of our race: wastefulness. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z How pitiable had been her self-deception; she must have loved him even then. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Then, with a mad, mighty will, he lashed his flagging spirit to another effort and broke into a pitiable, wabbling, four-legged trot. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z As to any talk of cruelty or indelicacy shown in digging up the dead misdeeds of dead men, it is simply pitiable. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z But it is not pride, it is nothing but the most pitiable cowardice, which is afraid of the reasonable and well-meant remonstrances of friends and relatives. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z He was wise in getting wealth; but here mortgages and deeds are unknown, and he becomes the least in the kingdom; morally idiotic, mentally dwarfed, and a pitiable object of our compassion.” Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z There were urgent need of repairs, and a general shabbiness of detail that was pitiable: the high wooden pews looked comfortless, ordinary candles evidently furnished a dim and insufficient light. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z The strangeness of her behavior afterward, the cruelty of her suspicion of him, her denial of him to-night—all only emphasized that pitiable, terrorized look. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z |
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