| Tony Williams is a pitiful wretch, on the jetsam on the shore of the Anacostia. |
| When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry. |
| And few could have failed to be moved by the five pitiful bodies of quins, lined up stiffly in a row. |
| Trying to ignore Darci as she made her pitiful attempts to make it up with Sarah, and Kane and his all too happy attitude. |
| It was a pitiful thing to find fortunate, but at that point she would grab and claw at anything that could possibly brighten the atmosphere. |
| For them, it is difficult to get sentimental about the back-breaking labour and the pitiful annual income. |
