Sentences with phrase «in pitiful»

Our Master bath is in pitiful shape and way past due for a makeover.

As a result, he says, «the beautiful circle hangs down in a pitiful way».

For your efforts you're instead rewarded with some pictures and some new helmets to be used in the pitiful rider customisation.

EA, of course, are one of the biggest videogame companies in the industry, if not the biggest, and yet insist on repeating their mistakes over and over again, culminating in pitiful showings like SimCity earlier this year and now Battlefield 4.

When Matt Bentley first came upon the dog, now known as Kelly, she was in pitiful condition... her fur was missing, she was malnourished, and it was readily apparent that she had been surviving on her own for far too long.

Too many people leave their savings in pitiful high street bank accounts where former best buy rates have dropped massively.

By manipulating, tokenizing, and exploiting individual students» perspectives on any given topic in education, and by seeing students in pitiful or sympathetic ways, entire generations of young people have been disengaged in schools.

Alas, poor Jennifer Aniston — she spent last year being chased around by Gerard Butler in the pitiful «The Bounty Hunter,» and now she's kicking off 2011 as the female lead in an Adam Sandler romantic comedy about an apparently dignity - free woman who agrees to pretend she's the ex-wife of her boss (Sandler) so he can woo someone younger.

The film begins with the sullen and dreary East Germany; Mrs. Strelzyk's (Jane Alexander) shopping in a pitiful market makes one cringe and hope they will never be forced to go through something as terrible as not having enough food to eat.

In a pitiful prologue, we see little Tom Popper grow up knowing his scientist / explorer dad mostly through short - wave radio updates.

On its face, the order marks another round in the pitiful one - up war between Albany and City Hall.

In his pitiful non-apology which you published, he claimed to have made an error in sending the response to your paper.

He scored 18goals in a pitiful qpr side so yeah id say hes better then welbeck and being that we cant seem to hit the back of the net at the moment....

Early on, I dare say back to the point Man became self - aware, the concept of an all - knowing, omnipotent, father figure who could intervene on their behalf in their pitiful and harsh existence took root.

There are many thousands of Americans who love grandma or grandpa or their elderly wives or husbands too much to allow them to go on lingering in their pitiful state.

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.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

Not exact matches

While it's true that Uber has done a pitiful job of engaging the governments in charge of regulating local taxi regimes — by and large, that's been a key part of the company's strategy — it's time Uber learned to play nice with the cities it hopes to conquer.

That would have zapped a large chunk of Activision's cash horde and only would have netted a pitiful $ 2 billion for Vivendi, which has $ 17 billion in debt.

(The major miners serve the bullion banks, not their shareholders, and have actively participated in gold's price destruction for years, starting with the «hedging» campaign that handed guaranteed profits to the banks and pitiful share prices to the stakeholders.)

After all, we know that the savings rate in America is pitiful.

In Q4 2011 Greece's debt restructuring plans hung in the balance, its southern European neighbors were revising already pitiful economic forecasts downwards and any tangible signs of a recovery in the US seemed a long way ofIn Q4 2011 Greece's debt restructuring plans hung in the balance, its southern European neighbors were revising already pitiful economic forecasts downwards and any tangible signs of a recovery in the US seemed a long way ofin the balance, its southern European neighbors were revising already pitiful economic forecasts downwards and any tangible signs of a recovery in the US seemed a long way ofin the US seemed a long way off.

Harry Campbell @ Your Personal Finance Pro writes My First Default With Lending Club — With today's pitiful interest rates, it's hard to sit there and invest your money in CD's that are returning 1 or 2 percent.

@ Concert: «I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»

One begins to look for a few pitiful rays of light in all this, but, alas, only «Little Testament,» with its utterly brilliant «the sun / unwinds its bolt of bullion» offers even the slightest consolation.

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!»

These are the days when I try to do a bit of good, and it feels like one small pitiful candle in an overwhelming darkness of never - ending Fridays.

Let us admit this frankly, once and for all: what most discredits faith in progress in the eyes of men today, over and above its reticences and its helplessness in meeting the cry of the «last days of the human species», is the unfortunate tendency still shown by its adepts to distort into pitiful millenarianisms all that is most valid and most noble in our now permanently awakened expectation of the future appearance of some form of «ultra-humanity».

Now, I absolutely do not think that Jesus is pointing to a sort of pitiful, masochistic toleration of abuse, or suggesting that a woman caught in abuse or violence should simply love her abuser or allow such violence to continue.

If religion were not such an unending source of trouble in the world, it would just be funny and pitiful.

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....

I find it pitiful that this article is purposefully placed to ridicule The LDS Church, just to add one more thing to the bag of things that Mr. Romney MAY have to defend in his bid for the Republican nomination.

In this fashion, double - mindedness brings itself to a halt by its pitiful sign, by its «in case that.&raquIn this fashion, double - mindedness brings itself to a halt by its pitiful sign, by its «in case that.&raquin case that.»

not who they are... sad and pitiful to see humans in that way...

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

And somehow God, in his mercy on us — his pity for our pitiful sacrifices — gives these tiny sacrifices meaning, and uses them to draw us closer to him.

God bless all the child rapists... I hope that when they find themselves in hell, they realize the consequences of their pitiful, hedonistic, hypocritical lives.

For philistinism thinks it is in control of possibility, it thinks that when it has decoyed this prodigious elasticity into the field of probability or into the mad - house it holds it a prisoner; it carries possibility around like a prisoner in the cage of the probable, shows it off, imagines itself to be the master, does not take note that precisely thereby it has taken itself captive to be the slave of spiritlessness and to be the most pitiful of all things.

One reads November 1916 in the eerie awareness of what is to come, which makes all the more pitiful and ludicrous the liberal posturing of the politicians and the utopian dreams of the revolutionary terrorists, each of whom has a plan for using the bloody war with Germany to realize his ambitions.

Case in point: the youth programs at most parishes are PITIFUL.

It is continually shoved in all our faces by... well... this pitiful cnn station

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

Those who claim to be Christian strive to follow the model he gave (one of total non-violence) and his teachings which incude love for neighbor and, more importantly, help other to put their hope — not in man's various pitiful efforts to rule themselves, all which have fallen way too short (since man was not created to rule man)-- but rather in God's Kingdom... the only true panacea to ANY and ALL of today's worldwide problems.

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.»

Last century was the bloodiest in history because of the pitiful try at man made peace.

Your lack of faith in humanity is pitiful; we are stronger and better than you think without the need for a god.

@Sabio: I don't know whether they do or not but the pitiful wailing of the zombies in the «Half - Life» series of from Valve Games, played backwards, says (along with a whole lot of general moaning), «God Help!

Your negative view point on humanity is just pitiful, I blame your belief in a god for that.

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 well.