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

The fact of her stupidity cast a merciful veil of pitifulness over her.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

And as if these worthies had really no right to be happy, the demon of envy induces me to say something cutting, merely to show them their own pitifulness.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul

The whole of nature has to seeing minds the same pitifulness.

From The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul by Jarrett, Bede