Sentences with phrase «pitiable figures»
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.
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The Tories» attacks on Brown of late have often come off as bullying precisely because Brown is such a pitiable figure: it's like kicking a three - legged puppy, and so (cliche alert) offends against that British sense of fair play.
The dark indie comedy «Middle Man» again casts O'Heir as a pitiable figure, shifting small towns from the fictional Pawnee, Ind., to Peoria, Ill., but otherwise keeping the «Kick me» sign pinned to his back.
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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.