Sentences with phrase «as pitiable»

Kaufman's script must walk a tricky tightrope, as his main character is more than a bit of a cad who must be seen as pitiable if he is not entirely sympathetic.

The dark indie comedy «Middle Man» again casts O'Heir as a pitiable figure, shifting small towns from the fictional Pawnee, Ind., to Peoria, Ill., but otherwise keeping the «Kick me» sign pinned to his back.

Yet Robbie never plays Ann as a pitiable fool, or defenseless girl.

Not exact matches

He just refers to them as «lukewarm people», and he also refers to them as blind, naked, poor, wretched and pitiable.

Paul's response: If there is no life after death, then we of all people are the most pitiable; for, if there is no life after death, we might as well eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

There are few spectacles in sport as splendid and pitiable as the batter defiantly poised before all that endless openness.

He won't, as we all barring a few sad, pitiable souls know full well.

The Tories» attacks on Brown of late have often come off as bullying precisely because Brown is such a pitiable figure: it's like kicking a three - legged puppy, and so (cliche alert) offends against that British sense of fair play.

The Organised Labour said their earlier call on the Federal Government to treat Kogi workers as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and send relief materials to them was borne out of the pitiable situation of the workers as a result of non-payment of their salaries between a period of three to twenty - two months.

The Well - Dressed Ape by Hannah Holmes (Random House) Holmes ignores our self - congratulatory tendencies and gives a witty, detailed look at Homo sapiens through the eyes of an evolutionary biologist, exposing us as a thin - skinned, dull - toothed, small - clawed, and pitiable species.

Wanda Sykes puts in a pitiable performance as the comic relief.

More fun to watch is Kevin Spacey as Salinger's know - it - all mentor, Whit Burnett, whose progression from alpha - male badgering to pitiable inferiority and regret is made convincing by Spacey despite the reams of on - the - nose dialogue he's given.

No one survives unscathed, but the most pitiable figures here are the world - class architects who designed the elegant new structures and displays, then watched helplessly as their bold work was watered down.

Here, he merges those comic rhythms with his more customary movie - star persona as the charming but pitiable sex addict Harry Pfarrer.

He was creepy yet pitiable as Robert Ford and will certainly have my attention in the future.

He also throws her iPhone in the trash, which I keep pointing out to others as proof that «Divorce» is not set in the 1970s or»80s — the show's pallid tones and classic FM soundtrack can make it seem that it's set in some pitiable past.

Directed by relative newcomer Antoine Fuqua, the energetic pace of this gritty thriller is relentless as as good battles evil and power becomes pitiable.

Just to top off the paternalistic righteousness jug, they also import more pathos into Ramón's apparently insufficiently pitiable plight, as do an Alzheimer's - afflicted father (Joan Dalmau), a simpleton nephew (Tamar Novas, playing a pastiche of several characters as the, sniff, son Ramón never had), and a degenerative disease for Julia (Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Sub-cortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy), thus allowing her to have a tear - jerking coda of her very own.

His naturally pallid skin tone works in his favor there, as does the decision to hinder him with crutches for the entire second act, causing him to strike an increasingly pitiable and desperate figure as the gaslighting sets in.

What makes the XOOM sales figure look even more pitiable is the fact that this marked a deterioration in its demand, as the tablet found 440,000 buyers in the quarter prior to the last.

In fact, as per TOI, the Indian government is also planning to come up with a new set of specifications, one that envisages a faster processor and improved battery that betters the current backup time of about 1.5 — 3 hours which is pitiable by any means.

During the difficult days of the Turbo's pitiable existence, as the struggling console was being bought by no one and mocked by all (all who had actually heard of it, that is), the fools at NEC somehow managed to release a handful of titles that defied ridicule and commanded respect.