Sentences with phrase «in pitiable»

Nope, it's set in a pitiable now.

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.

It doesn't help that Swank never finds a way into her gruff, stolid character or that Jones (mostly phoning in pitiable surliness) avoids delving very deeply into the story's protofeminist undercurrents — heavily obvious jibes against patriarchy in need of much stronger execution.

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

It shows human beings in all their pitiable, noble, stupid or sensitive modes of action, and it reminds us there's always time to fall in love, if only for a few days.

That is the challenge before all of us, who genuinely seek a change in the pitiable situation of our country, Nigeria.

He muttered about cross-party «common cause» support for vehicles, equipment, in a pitiable display.

Not exact matches

Which means that our capital misallocation is extensive and long - term, our recessions are long and deep, our growth trend is shallow, and our complacency about how right we are in contrast to the benighted past is callow and pitiable.»

Shatter, my God, though the daring of your revelation the childishly timid outlook that can conceive of nothing greater or more vital in the world than the pitiable perfection of our human organism.

Oh, you sufferer, wherever you may be, wherever you hide from the sight of men in order to spare them from being reminded of the pitiable, oh, do not forget that you, too, can accomplish something.

The war in heaven comes to a climax with the pitiable death of God (the original angel to emerge from matter into consciousness) and his usurping regent, Metatron.

He was wicked, envious, vicious, and he spent the whole of his life in emotions and irritations which would have made him pitiable, even ridiculous, had he not been so wicked and so intelligent.»

But God is not this pitiable entity unable to stand in the face of evil.

Is it not a pitiable prudence, shrewdness, faintheartedness, it has found, which sits in high places and cravenly makes men believe they have accomplished the greatest things and insidiously withholds them from attempting to do even the lesser things?

22:7; Job 30:10), the priestly oracle picks up these phrases and uses them to let the supplicant know that Yahweh has in fact been moved by his pitiable condition:

In spite of good intentions, our best efforts lead children uncomfortably close to Nietzsche's «last men,» who have little aspiration beyond «pitiable comfort.»

Both have the same foe in mind, more or less, who is more of a pitiable fool than an enemy: the skeptic whose overconfident rational reductionism ultimately fails to take the spiritual dimension into account.

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

We recall the starving thousands in China, the pitiable folk in insane asylums, prisons, hospitals, the drunkard who is violent in his home, the prodigal son, wasting his substance in the far country, remembering that we, too, are this prodigal son who can say nothing more to his father than, «Father, I am no more worthy to be called thy son...» What has happened to the image of God?

(In case you can't wait, the answer is: brownies assuage guilt, «lotus» blondies are for atonement, and classic chocolate chip cookies are best for ameliorating a pitiable situation.)

To dampen their current pitiable situation Petr Cech has been ruled for four weeks after picking up a calf injury in the 3 - 1 loss at West Brom.

Independent politics in Britain is in a fairly pitiable state.

It's a credible, beautiful piece of work which attracts praise in its own right, not in a «basket weaving, bless the poor souls for doing something nice», pitiable kind of manner.

There's a tedium to the sort of repetition that merely rehashes and recycles the same wink - wink barbs that worked the first time around — but also a relatable, even pitiable humanity in the film's desperation to be liked.

Even with evidence from a movie, it would be questionable to flat - out state that Besson has a pitiable outlook of the female sex that manifests itself in his work.

Brilliantly acted by Jackson, Tarantino's longtime muse, this alternately deplorable and pitiable character is in some ways the true villain of the piece.

These pitiable verbal assaults made him more than just a portlier, crasser Henny Youngman, though; the famous Youngman quip «Take my wife, please,» became, in Dangerfield's hands, «During sex my girlfriend always wants to talk to me.

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

Pervy, belligerent, self - loathing, substance - dependent, greedy, oily, spiteful, pathetic — he is an omnibus of Hoffman types and tropes, from the deliciously snitchy George Willis, Jr., in Scent of a Woman to the pitiable Scotty J. in Boogie Nights to the sweaty Allen in Happiness to the unscrupulous, loudmouthed Dean Trumbell in Punch - Drunk Love.

Yet Mo'Nique's furious, no - holds - barred performance in Lee Daniels's melodrama about an inner - city teen rising above her horrible home life helps us to glimpse the pitiable person beneath the monster.

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.

Lots of meaning get lost / changed by this, like when an interviewer said Aonuma said the bokoblins were cute, when he actually said they were kawaisou («pitiable in a non-negative way»), which is a word both without a clear one - word equivalent and very close to kawaii, the word for cute.

They look almost like crashed alien probes or satellites, disconnected from their users or power sources, vaguely threatening in their unfamiliarity but pitiable in their vulnerability.

Made into a more elaborate installation — the exhibition includes photography, large - and small - scale sculpture, and a pair of single - channel videos — than the artist has previously attempted, the project was trademark Nakadate in conception: smart, shrewd, and more than a little ruthless, an unapologetically manipulative scheme that implicates not just the pitiable men the artist lures into her queasily