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
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
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 Jack London
At the thought she broke down and wept, feeling all its poignancy, all its pitifulness, and finding for the moment no support in Clement, no recompense in a love which deceit and secrecy had tainted.
From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman
