Sentences with phrase «as pitiful»

As a pitiful human trying to flee with all vital organs still contained on the inside, staying far away from the killer and escaping without a hitch should be the best way to score points and thus earn new ranks.

It's a smart choice because while I'm a self - confessed turtle player in most RTS games, preferring to build insane defenses and laugh as my pitiful foes smash themselves again them, a game such as this needs to keep things moving.

The photo was designed to shock you much as the pitiful puppies in those «donate» commercials.

If you still bank at one of the big brick and mortar national chains, your interest rate is probably just as pitiful as mine.

Mary sneaks away as often as she can to be with Robert (Aidan Gillen), a writer whose bedroom serves as a pitiful shrine to himself, the walls adorned with taped - up newspaper mentions (one reads: «Glimpses of Lives»).

Then he made Adventureland, in which he was outstanding as a pitiful amusement - park Lothario, and I realized that Reynolds has the same problem as the young Brad Pitt: He's so good - looking that no one realizes how funny he is.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government's newly launched Digital Addressing System as pitiful.

But first, realize that cutting education aid and SUNY and CUNY are not the best actions, as one of the things we can pride ourselves on is the state's educational infrastructure - as pitiful as it may now be.

There are few things quite as pitiful as watching your baby struggle with congestion.

Plenty, I'm sure, so maybe it's not as pitiful as it seems, the fact that our children's interest are our entire lives.

Not exact matches

As William Shakespeare once said,» Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible».

Fox as all but lost me from its pitiful performance of covering the Joplin Tornado and its biased opinions.

As humans created in the image of God we are capable of divine expression even in our pitiful fallen state; even the soldiers in World War 1 had a brief respite on Christmas and walked out of the trenches to greet each other only to return to the trenches the next day and resume killing each other.

The soldiers arrested a few dozen whose fate, as Smith reports, was pitiful.

As far as the people who had a lot to do with starting these big religions I don't know much about them, but blind faith is pitifuAs far as the people who had a lot to do with starting these big religions I don't know much about them, but blind faith is pitifuas the people who had a lot to do with starting these big religions I don't know much about them, but blind faith is pitiful.

And this, as brief as it is, is only the most pitiful and briefest summary of the Gospel that I can muster.

Are you so pitiful as to use the «any excuse will do» explanation that most of your fellow believers use?

Only in the final scene does she discover that this pitiful, disheveled tramp was her benefactor, when she touches his arm and face once again, as in her blindness, and in that moment of revelation whispers, «You!»

The archeological evidence in Palestine reveals with pitiful adequacy the common sacrifice of little children as offerings to the gods.

The work, begun as a parish movement, has grown so that the local demands have overtaxed a large corps of workers while importunate calls from many cities in this and other lands for knowledge of the work, and pitiful calls for help from sick ones everywhere have to be put aside....

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

They have no value either as representations of Jesus or as an attempt to make God show through this pious and pitiful imagery.

In the meantime, those of us who tenaciously clung to our pitiful belief in Jesus as God and Savior were systematically forced out of the church.

Some people end in defeat and collapse or, as Mark Twain described them, scoffing «at the pitiful world, and the useless universe, and the violent, contemptible human race,» and deriding «the whole paltry scheme.»

As Walter Brueggemann puts it in his Genesis commentary, Joseph breaks from the past and «invites his brothers to put that pitiful past behind them» as welAs Walter Brueggemann puts it in his Genesis commentary, Joseph breaks from the past and «invites his brothers to put that pitiful past behind them» as welas well.

You dissolve into a pitiful abyss of depression as you realize you have absolutely no idea whatsoever what beer is de rigeur in Santa Fe.

What a pitiful season as the last 10 years.

As if the men in blue had caused the Cardinals to score their pitiful 13 runs in six games.

His record as a coach or manager is pitiful, and for him to be telling a manager who has won the accolades that Wenger is hilarious...

This is exactly what the Bengals point to as one of their reasons for not going big in outside free agency, and frankly, it's a pitiful excuse.

However, as a team this was a pitiful performance.

I mean how hollow and pathetic is it to use such meaningless and pitiful platitudes such as «I won't settle for anything less than PL title» as evidence for being the superior supporter.

Unfortunately, Rooney must have undiagnosed amnesia as just two years prior, his pitiful collapse in the penalty box helped Manchester United stop Arsenal's 49 game unbeaten run in its tracks.

It was not as easy as you might think to select Oxlade - Chamberlain as the best Arsenal player from a pitiful performance that saw us crash to defeat against West Ham, as he was at fault for that killer second goal and it reminded me of what he did against Monaco but he was the most enterprising Gunner and at least looked likely to make something happen.

He was quite pitiful as he begged that he be «Done» after only 2 runs!)

I always thought the Tories «Vote Labour, Get Salmond «schtick was as weak as it was pitiful.

Just as well they wouldn't have their name associated with their pitiful comments so that their prejudices might be exposed to appropriate ridicule.

«The government can no longer claim to be shocked as report after report highlights the pitiful state of care for older people,» Mr Lloyd said.

As for the Liberal Democrats, their pitiful return is a damning indictment of now - ex-leader Nick Clegg's decision to join a coalition with the Conservatives in 2010.

It showed a completely pitiful understanding of what most people — as opposed to most electoral reform professionals — care about.»

I've documented the media's response to Wikileaks already, and the response to the World Cup decision is just as abject and pitiful.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, the shadow health secretary went on: «That motion has got my complete and full support and I hope the conference votes for that motion because we should have absolute zero tolerance when it comes to the quite disgusting and pitiful anti-Semitism that sadly we're sometimes seeing on social media these days, and indeed, as I believe if you look at the newspapers, I wasn't there... was at an event in Brighton last night.»

According to them, the pitiful state of the party was as a result of the kind of leadership provided by the chairman.

Iran deal opposition: Next time some anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist tries telling you about the nefarious influence the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — better known as AIPAC — supposedly wields in Washington, remind them of its pitiful failure to stop the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran.

If I still had a vote in my home town I would be weary of hearing about the northern powerhouse, so beloved of the Tories while the south - west is ignored, and sick to death at having, as a taxpayer, to subsidise their HS2 vanity project while transport links beyond Exeter are pitiful.

The pitiful experience our children have today in the school and university system is a major contributor to the problems and turbulence we as a nation are experiencing.

My tomatoes typically do pretty well but I get lazy when it comes to tying them up so the vines look a mess, basil grows like crazy but I forget to harvest as much as I should before it becomes bitter in the late summer, my blueberry bushes and raspberry vines have been quite pitiful as I lose the daily battle with birds.

I remember the pitiful look on the midwife's face as if to say, «I never should have sent you home.»

The 2nd treatment is a little hard - to - do, as most love - stricken people make on their own pitiful or needy or determined to get the other particular person back.

I think the many tens of thousands of pitiful, rag - covered couples who start families in the titanic garbage heaps of the mid-western United States in 20 years will treasure their precious electronic courtships as the gold of their sad lives.