How To Use Pity In A Sentence

There is so much to enjoy here that it is a pity that a good deal of the information imparted is demonstrably wrong. The Times Literary Supplement
She is good-hearted and took pity on my pathetic form whenever I was sent to the kitchens by my mistresses.
Jones told her to be true, and exprest much pity and concern for him. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Pity the turtles and cherish them, for they too are on the conservationist's list of vulnerable species and in danger of extinction.
Thankfully, though, I believe that the Scottish art world has wider horizons than such navel-gazing, self-pitying introspection.

Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”. A Not so Bloody Mary ?
Pity about the subterranean exhibition space.
She often used the term pedal or pedalo-French slang for a homosexual-draping it with condescension, pity, and disapproval. Jezebel
He watched the poor wretch the commanding officer was lecturing, and looked on him with little pity.
He had seen that stare directed at errant Constables and felt a stir of pity for her.
Bhaiya, meanwhile, sent self-pitying letters from near Delhi where he was undergoing military training of his own trials in a world that he found ‘frightfully Poona: chukka, pukka, whisky soda and tiffin: still, I exist.’ Chaplin’s Girl
Still others, who are initiated by those making a craft of sacred rites, are worthy of astonishment and pity.
I think that I avoided self-pity and sentimentality about it because I didn't feel that way about it.
All was coloured with admiration of his beauty and grace, and mingled with boundless pity for their sad overclouding and defeature! Thomas Wingfold, Curate
wail in self-pity
It is, in the first place, a pity that there is so little written of the history of these people, so little material from which to gather the development of the idea of acrobatics in general, or of any one phase in particular. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
A great pity because some of your pictures are truly memorable. Times, Sunday Times
So I don't have a lot of pity for the so-called hassled passenger. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
It is a pity that a book that has such detail is unable to overcome the obstacles of intricacy without leaving the reader stuck in the quagmire of literary and historical obscurity.
It's called CAF-Cytoxan, Adriamycin, and 5-fluorouracil-and if it doesn't kill me first, I could almost pity my poor cancer cells. THE SAVING GRACES
Usually, guttate psoriasis must be differentiated from pityriasis rosea, another condition characterized by the sudden outbreak of red scaly lesions.
It was a pity he would have her blood on his hands - if someone tried to connect her untimely death to him, it would be a messy situation indeed.
Well, when you stop being frightened of someone and then you stop pitying them, there's not really a lot left.
He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric.
European Powers is exhausted on Poland, and that neither pity nor shame will induce them to break a thankless neutrality, here; but in the face of all barely probable contingencies, I doubt no more of the ultimate result, than I doubt of the ultimate performance of the justice of God. Border and Bastille
They don't make films like his anymore - more's the pity.
We see, now that Christianity has interpreted it for us, the significance of the cross – that monogram of Christ and cote-armure of pity, built up somewhere in the branches of almost every tree, stamped in the centre of almost every flower. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
What a pity thousands of work-shy layabouts don't think the same way. The Sun
I shook my head in mock pity as Chela attempted to comfort Micheal.
Yet now is not the moment to wallow in self-pity. Times, Sunday Times
It is such a pity that their time and our taxes are being wasted on something which has the majority of our citizens shrugging their shoulder.
Do not pity me till I saw her wan, sick looks. Emma
I pity you if you think this is an acceptable way to behave.
Eventually (after 14 cigarettes and two of those carbonated malt beverages) the hatred simmers down and turns into pity.
O'Driscoll does a great job of sketching out the characters, their relationships and filling their miserable lives with the kind of dread and unease that you can almost taste at the back of your tongue but when it comes time to move this story out of 'grim social realism' and into 'Horror' it all rather falls apart amidst random snowmen, which is a real pity as up until that ending, the story was going great guns. REVIEW: Black Static #16
But he will not wallow in self-pity. Times, Sunday Times
Pity poor Dillon Phillips, the prime minister's 12-year-old lad.
Of the first, saith S. Augustine: O the immeasured pity of our The Golden Legend, vol. 6
the Romans had no pity for the defeated
Citing a "smarmy" letter that Washington wrote in 1757, bemoaning his lot to the commander in chief, Lord Loudoun, Mr. Clary highlights some especially outspoken, self-pitying and "whining" comments. War in the Wilderness
You don't have to pine away at a pity party. Christianity Today
She knew that she was an object of pity among her friends.
And pity the nine million partially deaf people on these islands. Times, Sunday Times
And this really is a pity, and this is a shame, because what does that mean for United Nations to expulse people who are fighting day after day at the local level to change what's happening, to try to defend the poor people, to defend the farmers, the indigenous people and so on? Democracy Now!
He's just your average alcoholic who wallows in self-pity and drinks every spare penny I can earn.
Yet now is not the moment to wallow in self-pity. Times, Sunday Times
The girl stood gazing in/with pity at the old lion in the cage.
He had no pity, no compassion, no understanding of what the victims of war suffered.
Loladins will be a new class focusing on emote combat, tickling and laughing at their enemies until they feel pity and give up, or punch the player in the face.
Pity that their dry northern humour seems a little jaded. The Sun
But I guess robot ass sells better than sensualized heart keyholes; more's the pity. Book Cover Smackdown! Terminal World vs. The Alchemy of Stone
It seems such a pity that a distinguished and honored name should be commercialized in such a manner.
Intelligence in fiction, then, is usually conceived as a variety of Aristotelian dianoia:Under Thought dianoia is included every effect which has to be produced by speech, the subdivisions being: proof and refutation; the excitation of the feelings, such as pity, fear, anger, and the like; the suggestion of importance or its opposite. Plot and thought
Amidst all that humbles and scathes; amidst all that shatters from their life its verdure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their pride, and in the very heart of existence writeth a sudden and "strange defeature," -- they stand erect, -- riven, not uprooted, -- a monument less of pity than of awe! The Disowned — Complete
What a pity it is also the most corrupt, incompetent and untrustworthy.
And Melusine, who we all adore, is not likely to be found this side of the Atlantic anytime soon, more's the pity. Archive 2008-04-01
Politicians have a limited emotional range - normally just rampant egomania or self pity.
‘It's such a pity, that with the whole nation short of power, the water is simply flowing over the weir,’ he says.
'And shall I entitle the wretch to upbraid me with his generosity, and his pity; and perhaps to reproach me for having been capable of forgiving crimes of such a nature? Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
In case it be thought that a note of selfpity has crept in to this account of my apparent boredom, I must say that the intention was never to complain about my fate, but merely to explain the form of my protest. An Autobiography
The western group, corresponding with the ancient Pityusae or Pine Islands, also comprises two relatively large islands, Iviza (Spanish, Ibiza or, formerly, Ivica) and Formentera, with the islets of Ahorcados, Conejera, Pou and Espalmador. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
It was a pity that people were keen on showering encomiums on politicians and heads of religions and communities, whatever the frailties of these individuals.
R. did not so much wallow in self-pity as luxuriate in a whimpering, orchestrated, self-flagellating symphony of slights, woes, and despairs.
One has to pity the poor flacks who have to defend a corporate officer's speech characterized not just by US-bashing but by sheer fatuousness.
He developed a tearful roar which he would use when thwarted, and a persistent self-pitying grizzle when he was bored or uncomfortable. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
It was a pity that either side had to lose this game, as both contributed so much to a wonderful evening's entertainment.
Paulo Szot was wonderful as the status-conscious, noseless Kovalyov, ricocheting from hysteria to self-pity (we see through his lyrical laments) to self-importance; his baritone was multihued and penetrating, except during the noisiest orchestra moments. The Sweet Smell of Success
It's a pity, then, that GCHQ is short of ethnic-minority staff who can actually eavesdrop on, for example, suspected terrorists. Michael Gove wears dunce cap over UK school buildings list fiasco
But reality is that no soft shell as comfortable as the Serendipity will keep you dry in a torrential rain or hours of wet sleet.
Ever since Goody, our twelve-year-old bichon frise, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, I have been compelled by pity and fear to do his bidding. Knowing Jesse
The rest of his account is padded out with speeches: a pity, since the family memoir works well on its own and is of more enduring interest.
This is a pity since there have been prolonged periods where he has performed to an acceptable standard.
Pity welled up in her heart as she watched the disabled child.
Pity I didn't bring a tripod: I've had to hand-hold the camera and use ISO 1600 so the photos are a little grainy.
I knew he didn't want my pity, but he had it nonetheless.
The Moorish girl advanced, creeping on her knees, her two hands still extended towards Meroë, who, full of pity, leaned towards the suppliant, meaning to raise her up. The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death
All foemen in pity beweep his woes; * Ah for freke whom the foeman pitieth! Arabian nights. English
That was Jessica's voice, slightly nasal, desperately advertising the fact that any pity would be welcome.
My wife opens the door and greets me with that familiar look, the one of pity at my lack of manliness. Times, Sunday Times
I hated the thought of being an object of pity .
That wasn't the case during those early years when my bitterness and self-pity got in the way. Christianity Today
Pity the insult thingy is damn funny in pointless childish way Compose Your Own Insult For Gordon Brown
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
for Christ's, God's, goodness', heaven's, pity's, etc. sake used to emphasize that it is important to do sth or when you are annoyed about sth: Do be careful, for goodness' sake.
That would be a great pity, because they are all lovely people and we shall miss them dreadfully.
A pity; with such spirited playing one longed to hear every scurrying semiquaver. Times, Sunday Times
As he stood there, turned from me, with his hat off, and his neck painfully flushed under the sharp outcurve of his dark head, a feeling of pity surged up in me, as if I had taken an unfair advantage. The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
Pity to waste good viper venom on an audience of one.
Well this is probably serendipity, so I attach a description of a new approach to thermionics. ZPEnergy.com
He felt pity for such a forsaken creature: no one had warmed her or comforted her or loved her enough to have her christened.
I pity the fool who calls her skank and tramp and trollop and slut. Paris Hilton Is a Medical Miracle
McCarthy need not have worried, because this film is devoid of self-pity or false sentimentality.
In battle, I came to pity enemy prisoners because I had a cause to fight for and they did not.
Now, Lackaday in his manuscript relates this English episode, not so much as an appeal to pity for the straits to which he was reduced, although he winces at its precarious mountebankery, and his sensitive and respectable soul revolts at going round with the mendicant's hat and thanking old women and children for pennies, as in order to correlate certain influences and coincidences in his career. The Mountebank
It would be a pity to give up now - you've nearly finished.
He introduced feeling, compassion and pity to compensate for the loss of the comic element.
Your description of Clinton sounds exactly like you could have been talking about Bush except for the perversion thing, and if you think getting a blowjob is perverted I feel nothing but pity for you. Think Progress » Marine Quoted By Schmidt Says He Never Mentioned Murtha
With so few politicians having worked in research, few of them instinctively grasp the intricacies of the system 's reliance on this sort of serendipity. Times, Sunday Times
I wish she'd do something to help herself instead of just wallowing in self-pity!
From here the route becomes a bit of a blur as a section of flat crawling and squeezy bits were negotiated, until we eventually arrived at the head of the Serendipity Pitches.
Our tendency towards simultaneous self-pity and self-aggrandisement. Times, Sunday Times
The beggar's story excited my pity.
Paulicians, that pity for their speculative errors, which modern times might think had been well purchased by the extent of the temporal services of these unfortunate sectaries. Count Robert of Paris
In the summer, it's common for children and young adults to develop a benign skin condition called pityriasis alba. CNN.com
He gives us petulance rather than pain, self-pity rather than rage. Times, Sunday Times
There really is a need for those of us who do know the right things to think to take pity on the ignoramuses who don't and really correct them when they are wrong.
It was only through sheer serendipity that he found what he was looking for bobbing about on the Clyde just a few miles from his home in Woodlands.
getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down
I can understand why audiences may balk at the symmetry of the plot and the serendipity of the cast. Times, Sunday Times
Her smile was slightly sad and regretful, almost pitying as she continued speaking.
The lamentable weakness of the words roused a motion of pity in Lily's breast.
Mind you, it is a pity that other Scottish pundits are not as forthright as Walker was last week, many evidently willing to accept handsome pay packets for doing little more than stating the obvious.
Black spelled correctly "serendipity" and "gerenuk" - a long-necked species of antelope native to East Africa - to earn all six points possible in rounds two and three. The Times-Journal: News
A pitying neighbor had given them their supper; and they were told that their mother had gone out early in the morning, soon after they had gone to business, and, re-appearing with a carter, had had her few possessions carried away, leaving no word whither she was bound, or message for the helpless children. Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls
He lay helpless in the street under the pitying gaze of the bystanders.
I think it is a great pity that we have moved away from a bipartisan agreement that gave New Zealand the best accounts in the world.
They capture the gestures of the human body in all its pity and rapture, pain and pleasure.
It requires teamwork; it cannot be left to serendipity. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
And as in at least some other cases, this will be a pity because there will likely be some small nugget of usefulness to the deal.
A wave of self-pity came over him.
As the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, he rightfully believed that the title position put his place in the uppity-stratospheric levels shared by other internationally famous, extremely wealthy and very powerful male WASP sports figures of his day (think Babe Ruth or John L. Sullivan). The Daily News - News
Depression is almost unknown to these individuals because they are all so optimistic and active that they have little time for self-pity or the blues.
I put the kettle on (tea and coffee are in a nice wooden box, pity no fresh milk in the minifridge) and go to throw open … oh no, health and safety's window police have been at it again. Hotel review | Cathedral Quarter Hotel, Derby
All of which seems a bit of a pity because Freeserve's recently announced annual results weren't too bad.
How I pity the unhappy wretches who are doomed to dwell in such a place!
It's a pity we can't ask his opinion, or at least the talking computer.
Pity the poor orchestra having to play second fiddle to that load of rubbish. Times, Sunday Times
Circumstance, I said, is a factor which some might call chance, fate, luck, serendipity, or karma.
Misha wasn't buying it — and as the greatest regret of Viko's current incarnation was "chickening out" or his leap from the top of one of the buildings in Albany's Egg Plaza the summer after 8th grade and opting, instead, for a "pity me, save me" fake suicide attempt in his parent's mansion in Loudonville , he felt the time had come at last to do the deed. Case History #1 from The Karmic Adjustment Bureau files:
The brave and the wise can both pity and excuse,when cowards and fools shew no mercy.
The place was lovely, but it was a pity about the weather.
The brave and the wise can both pity and excuse,when cowards and fools shew no mercy.
Unfortunately, he ends up more involved than the viewer, because the leading characters are self-obsessed, self-pitying and lacking in redemptive sympathy.
It is just important now that we do not sulk or wallow in self-pity. Times, Sunday Times
He felt something akin to pity.
Orlando frowned, an expression which sent his recently acquired entourage of adoring fangirls into spasms of hysterical pity.
Isn't it an awful pity Mick O Dwyer wasn't born in Sligo.
One can only pity the poor soul who subjects herself to the media frenzy.
Because of this, a household obliged to sponsor many feasts gains no prestige, but becomes rather an object of pity.
They mostly looked sad and bored, and seemed to regard the security woman with pity.
He felt a sudden wave of self-pity.
I'm sitting here almost in tears, drowning in a sad mixture of melancholy, confusion, hopelessness, and self-pity.
Pity, however, carried the day, and had it not been for the irritating coldness of "that little hard-hearted thing," as she called Jacqueline, she would have entirely forgiven her. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Some of the best effects in my garden have been the result of serendipity.
There was tenderness and pity in the tone of his voice as he said the name Bessie, and the sick girl looked at him curiously, as if struggling to recall something in the far past; then a smile broke over her face and the lip quivered a little as she replied: Bessie's Fortune A Novel
But this would only invite a pitying smile, and a "She'll learn "comment. READY?
The man with the new flaxen locks instead explained that he was struggling with pityriasis rosea, a chicken pox-like virus.
After 2,600 words of this self-pity, Henderson is willing to take some blame for the breakdown in their relationship.
Marine fish have such beautiful vivid colours and it is a pity not to display these to best advantage.
Still, it is a pity to see so fair a maid cast like rotten bait upon the waters to hook this troutlet of a yeoman. Eric Brighteyes
save your pity for the living
Without them, an audience would be hard pressed to sympathize with Walter without their reactions descending into pity.
Should Munster lose, pity the poor man who moved the game to the capital purely for financial reasons.
Pity the highbrow drama fan in front of the TV at 9pm last night. Times, Sunday Times
Narcissists may deny their mistakes or flagellate themselves into a froth of self-pitying hatred, but they never laugh at their imperfections.
He gives us petulance rather than pain, self-pity rather than rage. Times, Sunday Times
She was not one to wallow in self-pity. Times, Sunday Times
None appear, a pity because these works show us Johnson at his most invigoratingly ethical, committing himself to hardship as he asks writers to depend on the favors of their own talent and nothing else. The Powers of Dr. Johnson
The pity he commands is closely akin to the forgiveness of Christian charity.
It could have been maudlin and self-pitying, and none of that was there.
A sub section of self-aggrandisement is self-pity. Times, Sunday Times
And the pity is that no side will win this phoney war. Times, Sunday Times
He knows that the return of Ilsa can only send Rick into a slough of self-pity, and so Sam contrives to break the fall.
Spirochetes live in our gums; staphylococci, micrococci, and a small yeast from the genus Pityrosporon clothe our hides.
The girl stood gazing in/with pity at the old lion in the cage.
It is a pity that the drivers of these vehicles are not more cautious and aware. Times, Sunday Times
It is virtually tuneless, self-pitying, uninteresting and is a world apart from the subtle atmospherics of the band's best work.
This album is full of self-pitying dirges which give the impression of a slightly sad man-child sulking about girls in his bedroom.
Pity the man with a wounded conscience! Times, Sunday Times
Their reminiscences contain no hint of self-pity or resentment about either the grinding poverty or their father's strict approach to parenting. Times, Sunday Times
It's a pity for me to see an old woman hobble away.
It is a pity he doesn't give more examples, but the poison in Titian – his god – is a sense of mortality; precisely what people see in Freud himself. Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, by Martin Gayford
Cooperation with other more northerly atmospheric weather patterns or oscillations and a little serendipity is needed to get an exceptionally snowy winter. Why was last year so snowy? Part I
Those things the Greeks called catharsis the sharing of pity and terror and joy with all.
Pity the poor peppered moth: unvalued for itself, exploited as a weapon by Darwinists in their battle with Creationists, and in the even more acrimonious civil wars of evolutionists.
The steward's self-pity in his soliloquy suggests lack of control over his situation or a passive-aggressive personality.
You're a stubborn, pig-headed, self-pitying man who's only thinking of himself and what will happen to him if his hands don't heal!
While there is appeal in the spontaneity and serendipity of these events, they do not amount to community.
This is an unsparing account, devoid of self-pity. Times, Sunday Times
I pity such detractors, because if their spirits were not massively moved by the tragedy of a great hero expiring on the battlefield, they must be blocks of stones.
In the strange world of synchronicity and serendipity that we inhabit, these two facts are not unrelated.
Brock's book seeks to vindicate Thomas's claim that he was "lynched" for his "uppity" conservative views. The Hill-Thomas Mystery
For pity's sake, help me!
But or he came so far forward, Arnold bishop of Liege had been with the king and had greatly entreated for the duke of Juliers, that the king should not be miscontent with him, though he were father to the duke of Gueldres; for he excused him of the defiance that his son had made, affirming how it was not by his knowledge nor consent, wherefore, he said, it were pity that the father should bear the default of the son. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
Isabel came at last to have a kind of undemonstrable pity for her; there seemed something so dreary in the condition of a person whose nature had, as it were, so little surface -- offered so limited The Portrait of a Lady
Their collective learning is immense, and is deployed without pity.
It's a pity our trips to New York don't coincide.
We are a village of people meddlesome in deliberating as well as pity knowledge relating to NYC Transit as good as transit around New York City as well as around a world. When Is Black Friday? - NYC Transit Forums
It was a pity that so few attended for the first part of the treble header as both teams served up a thriller laced with the finest of hurling skills and players with real potential for the future.
I happy — & I never see the leer of vice upon a beautiful face without feeling the heart ache pitying human nature & damning society. you will wonder at this kind of rhapsody from me perhaps, but you will perhaps agree with me in wishing society better. why is the door to Letter 67
However, there little detail on the digitization process itself - a pity, as many of the items digitized are obviously fragile, and the process by which these were digitized is likely useful to know about. Archive 2008-04-01
The tragic hero's reversal inspires pity if it is due not to wickedness of character but rather to some hamartia, by which Aristotle seems to mean some error in action, sometimes blameworthy and sometimes not.
I'm afraid that there wouldn't be anything in it for you other than maybe a few beers and my eternal gratitude, but I'm hoping someone will take pity on me.
I saved her out of pity for her child.
It's a pity that he ruins his otherwise commendable film with some extremely lousy cinematography.
What a pity that his career was left to flounder.
I confess I was moved to pity him when I spoke it, for he turned pale as death, and stood mute as one thunderstruck, and once or twice I thought he would have fainted; in short, it put him in a fit something like an apoplex; he trembled, a sweat or dew ran off his face, and yet he was cold as a clod, so that I was forced to run and fetch something for him to keep life in him. Moll Flanders
A mixture of serendipity, personal experience and recommendation built the list of artists.
The pity is they could not also see that the regime that was deposed was far from democratic, even though it had the support of most ethnic Fijians. Global Voices in English » Commonwealth suspends Fiji

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