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His fans rolled with his excesses and pitied his life tragedies.

She pitied his inability to move past his grievances and admit defeat.

When you only show us as shallow representations with no real opinions and perspectives of our own — or as spectacles that need to be pitied — you don’t actually get to know us.

"He said he pitied his diary secretary without a word of pity for the victims of abuse," said Mr Jones.

It’s something completely different in narratives about disabled characters, where so often they are subjects to be pitied, not envied.