Sentences with word «pitiable»

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.

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.

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.

With respect to history and moral judgment, the New York Times was and is on the wrong side, and stays there with pitiable consistency.

Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we should be in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave, and should soon sink to the same level as the lost in hell.

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.

Independent politics in Britain is in a fairly pitiable state.

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.

Instead, the one named Crozier (Jared Harris) will go on to be that man waiting over the hole in the ice, living on but no longer as himself, while the one named Fitzjames (Tobias Menzies) will die a sad, pitiable death.

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

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.

A fact that most Christians would probably find pitiable, were it not coming from a guy who invalidated their faith.

But with current pitiable status of Russia it's simply impossible.

In this way, Johnson creates a pathetic, almost pitiable character who is very, very interesting.

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.

It's a slightly grating phrase — with a particularly pitiable tenor — but there is some truth to it: while nice guys don't exactly end up at the bottom of the corporate heap, they're definitely not on top.

Indeed, he would appear at last to turn his own weak - willed and truly pitiable Christian assistant over to the Japanese.

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

Until then, the Marlins are baseball's most pitiable team, yet again.

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

There were times this evening that the Chicago Fire - the no - longer - winless Chicago Fire, the no - longer - pitiable Chicago Fire - were absorbing punishment like the hero of a hackneyed action movie, taking punches that sounded like small explosions, blood, sweat, and gore streaking down their lumpen, stubborn faces.

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.

David Cameron has taken to treating Ed Miliband with a sort of pitiable contempt.

Or again, how would you categorize the House of Representatives» threat and muscle - flexing, over the Works, Housing and Power Minister, Babatunde Fashola's exposure of their scandalous cannibalization of the budget, diverting scarce money, from crucial federal highways and bridges, to pitiable boreholes?

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.

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.

Welles evokes performances that his actors seldom (if ever) matched in later years; even the very limited Tim Holt is wholly believable - and even a bit pitiable - as the blinkered George Amberson Minafer.

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

Alice is often pitiable, but she's also a reminder of the open - endedness of things... and it's empowering to realize that most of us put in the hard work of (mostly) telling the truth, following through, and keeping in touch.

Josh Brolin invests the creepy but pitiable White with a simmering desperation: his charged encounters with the man he will murder are some of the movie's strongest moments.

Vikander has her fair share of ugly crying — her pliable face screwed to pitiable shapes — but these Oscar Moments with a capital O and M are earned through thoughtful character development.

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

The characters here are too pitiable to be funny, but not real enough to generate any genuine sympathy.

She stops at a convenience store for donuts and beer (yeah...) and has to scrounge change from the car to pay for, even then only managing because the clerk takes pity on her obviously pitiable state.

This could be the story of pitiable hard life, with abandonment, alcohol, abuse; she was kicked out of the house at 16, a grandmother by her 30s.

Austen did say the only thing that renders a single women pitiable is poverty, in Emma, I think.

The references furnished with a paper are appropriately composed through experienced essayists who kill the danger of you composing inappropriate or pitiable references.

Others are somber battles with pitiable opponents that made me wish I could sheathe my sword and show mercy.

Seen in the grandeur of the SLG's main gallery, Vranken's termite holes and rickety furniture seem pitiable, a pale shadow of that grand Victorian experiment in social engineering trumpeted by Crane's motto.

Some researchers have focused attention on the harmful consequences of culturally ubiquitous prejudices: Disability is generally assumed to be aberrant, tragic and pitiable [49, 50, 51, 52].

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.

But he's a character so comically lame he's become pitiable and, dare I say, even enjoyable (if ironically so).

The state of cryptocurrency exchanges in South America is rather pitiable.

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