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

Jimmy sat down again, impelled by the pitifulness of the thin white face.

From Travelers Five Along Life's Highway by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

‘I’d no spirits for mischief,’ she answered, with mock pitifulness, twinkling up her eyes, and rubbing them with her knuckles as if she were crying. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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