Sentences with phrase «pitiable humanity»

He's a persistently annoyed, insistently selfish alcoholic, but Dern gives him a pitiable humanity that makes it impossible to write him off.

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.