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Simple sentences
The little girl, deeply moved by the old man's pitiful story, burst into tears.
With pitiful clothing and a handfull of bills with him, an old man asked with quavering voice whether he could pay his bills here.
The pitiful sight moved us to tears.
Movie subtitles
I must've have looked that pitiful.
Frankly speaking, how pitiful I am!
That's the pitiful one.
You're a pitiful sight, Dr. Huggen.
If you only saw the compassion, the deep moral bravery of the Marshal leaning over the beds of the pitiful patients.
Is there anything more pitiful?
I'm just a pitiful man. and like every man, I have my faults.
It's pitiful.
You're the most pitiful creature I've ever known.
Nobody ever hears the pitiful last word of a young well-bred girl.
So this is the pitiful state you come back in.
The ground outside and inside their pitiful shacks turns to mud.
That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
She was so docile, she was almost pitiful.
Pitiful and pretentious delusions!
For 15 years I have struggled to keep this pitiful boy alive.
You poor, pitiful man.
They grow old and ugly. and. pitiful.
Come, seeling night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand cancel and tear to pieces that great bond which keeps me pale!
That same night, we sent for Eve's things, her few pitiful possessions.
I came among you to warm my hands at your fires. your poor, pitiful little fires that flicker out in the night.
That's the pitiful one, when you're broke and hungry, and everything looks black.
How can I go back and face everybody in such a pitiful state?
How pitiful to see a man down on his luck.
It was pitiful.
Making pitiful fools of both because you don't want to offend one.
I'm a miserable sinner. a pitiful wretch.
I'm a stranger. an unknown person. an enigma. and this pitiful cadet whose wife I will be doesn't know me at all!
I was in a pitiful state.
Jumpei Kayama, a pitiful wronged former soldier.
News and current affairs
This pitiful performance incites angry cries that American jobs are disappearing abroad, and that low-cost exports may result in deflation.
Bo understands that he should not be perceived as a pitiful loser who gutlessly besmirches his honor.
This gesture elicited hundreds of Internet postings from Arabs condemning the award as treachery and lamenting the pitiful state of leadership in the Arab world.
But to the rest of the world, Chen has been revealed as a petty liar over a pitiful amount of money.
The G-8 Summit in Japan earlier this month was a painful demonstration of the pitiful state of global cooperation.
And it is more to the pitiful remains of the anti-colonial revolutions in Latin America than to the community of Islamic states that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is drawn.