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

He opened windows for them upon the splendour and the savagery, the pomp and the pitifulness that he had found in many corners of the earth.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack

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

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 Moody, Dwight Lyman