pitifulness
Example Sentences
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In fact, the sheer pitifulness of Doris’s self-deception would be downright insulting were it not for Field’s delicate performance, in which she subtly transforms from a slump-shouldered mouseburger to something more radiant and at ease.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2016
Lee brought to his monsters a sense of pitifulness that he called "the loneliness of evil."
From Reuters ● Jun. 11, 2015
There was that first pitifulness of a tamed and broken spirit; then later, in London, the agony of loneliness, of separation, of gradual awakening to the change in her master’s heart.
From The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt
But the greatest school for the learning of pitifulness is yonder at the feet of Jesus.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
The squire knelt by her side, examined her wounds with tender touch, wiped her dewy and unconscious eyes, and in his pitifulness kissed them.
From Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene by Edmund Spencer
