Sentences with phrase «more pitiable»

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.

Nothing is more pitiable, perhaps even contemptible, than the clerical charades of running up the flag for each social cause that comes down the pike.

It is suggested that some children are deliberately maimed to make them more pitiable.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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