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
Mr. Copley felt the pitifulness; he did not know what it meant.
From The End of a Coil by Warner, Susan
Cranmer suddenly stretched out, with a timid pitifulness, his white hands.
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford, Ford Madox
There was that first pitifulness of a tamed and broken spirit; then later, in London, the agony of loneliness, of separation, of gradual awakening to the change in her master’s heart.
From The Branding Iron by Burt, Katharine Newlin
