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
Her self-sacrifice, her actual deprivations—"I haven't had a new bonnet for—for four years!" she thought; and her lip quivered at the pitifulness of so slight a thing.
From Dr. Lavendar's People by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The whole of nature has to seeing minds the same pitifulness.
From The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul by Bede Jarrett
Jimmy sat down again, impelled by the pitifulness of the thin white face.
From Travelers Five Along Life's Highway by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
