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
As we read in the beautiful words of the Church of England Prayer-book: “Though we be tied and bound by the chains of our sin, let the pitifulness of Thy mercy save us.”
From Sovereign Grace Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects by Dwight Lyman Moody
She knew just the pitifulness that was in his expression, but she could not raise her eyes to his.
From A Love Story Reversed 1898 by Edward Bellamy
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
