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

We are moved by the pitifulness of the suffering as well as by the horror of the evil.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.

‘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

She knew just the pitifulness that was in his expression, but she could not raise her eyes to his.

From A Love Story Reversed 1898 by Bellamy, Edward