Sentences with phrase «pity at»

I would like to know how the WHO justifies showing pity for overheated equator - dwellers while showing no pity at all for the Inuit victims of frostbite and malnutrition in northern Canada.

It took many years and a huge stock market rally, but it seems not owning stocks is now the one investment strategy that'll draw looks of pity at the neighborhood cocktail party.

There's no head - up display, though, and it's a pity at this level - no matter how good those two screens are, you still have to take your eyes off the road to look at them.

Poppy is overly extroverted and far too nice, the type of person we resent and pity all at once — resent because she stumbles obliviously into a happiness that eludes us and pity because such naïve happiness must be in some way a façade, ultimately empty because it has not been tempered by an honest reflection upon» reality».

Tully prefers to remain at the level of paying tribute to women for their physical and psychic hardships, and, in that regard, frankly, reeks a little of self - pity at this appalling #MeToo moment.

He said, «it is a pity at a time when Nigeria is battling with the problem of insecurity and electoral malpractices, that we could have a government at whatever level being engaged in acts capable of breaching public peace and security.

If they have any gut response to being in coalition, it's a feeling of pity at the plight of their junior partners.

Then a third man arrives on the scene and, moved by pity at what he sees, does everything he can to restore the victim to health.

No pity at all.

Tallulah... I don't pity them at all.

I'm doing all this self - pitying at a stoplight when the twin - turbocharged 4.0 - liter V - 8 that powers the 2016 Mercedes - AMG GT S resuscitates itself, seeing as how the automatic start - stop system shut it down for some 20 seconds.

Not exact matches

Not cries out of pity but out of joy, pride and sadness at the lost lives, broken families and a broken system but also at the hope, ambition and remorse that I witnessed.

Early on I evidently was struggling so hard to pull myself up and look at my workout sheet that the lifeguard took pity on me; she grabbed the clipboard, sat in a chair at the end of the lane, and told me what to do.

When Dunn talked about Bonobos in 2008, people would flash «pity looks» at him when he mentioned that it was a brand that sold men's pants and it was totally online.

While these mini Mensa types skimmed their psychology books and hit Georgetown's popular hangout the Tombs promptly at 4 p.m., I memorized, was tutored and had every conceivable study buddy willing to take even a little pity on me and none of it happened over a beer.

He looked at Roark and saw the calmest, kindest face — a face without a hint of pity.

Pity I just missed out on some opportunities late January as I was short on funds at that time.

Pity, compassion, concern, affection made up the vocabulary [that] 76 percent of rescuers and 67 percent of rescued survivors used at least once to express their reasons.»

Pity neither the writer nor their editor saw fit to include it or at least identify «book and verse» so we could look it up ourselves.

@garbagemouth... A little inspired clarification for you.As far as Jesus telling His disciples «this generation shall not pass away» He meant the generation of humanity from the Flood to the Second Coming.There will be three judgements against sin and its author, Satan.The first was the Flood, the second at the war of Armageddon, and finally at the end of the Thousand years when the evil one is released for a short season... I pity the unbelievers who doubt the Word when the books of judgement are opened.

Thus, when the protagonist feels pity for some of the damned, we are meant to realize that he is at fault for doing so.

He felt pity for those who take fright at the span of a century or whose love is bounded by the frontiers of a nation.

Man there are alot of women who are going to be answering to that dude for screaming his name... I'd say I pity them but if He actually does see and hear everything, I'm sure he will understand... I've read the bible many times, I keep a copy in the bathroom, it comes in handy anytime I eat at Juans roadside mexican cart, and i think I am about to die.

These days, however, many religious and moral traditionalists in America can easily relate to the young Madison's anguished plea for pity and prayer — or at the very least for a revival of liberty of conscience.

«Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self - absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could think it right to be themselves, — intent only upon His own honor and glory, looking out continually that His own rights are never trampled on; and so absorbed in thoughts of Himself and of His own righteousness, as to have no love or pity to spare for the poor sinners who have offended Him.»

But when a person chronically pities himself, rebels at fate and thinks the world or the Lord has a grudge against him, gets angry over trifles and scolds or swears at the people around him, frustration is likely to be at the bottom of it.

Look at Christ's example of the Good Samaritan — his first response for the downtrodden man splayed across the roadway was indeed pity.

The claim is also at once self - pitying and self - congratulatory: self - pitying be-cause it says, «Our time is worse than any other time; nobody else in history has suffered as we are suffering, and that is one of the ways we know the end is near.»

The problem is, when we approach someone with pity and then stay at that level, there is never any mutuality to the relationship.

if you recall, God said, «Let us make man in our image AND after our likeness...... yes, every man still bears the image of God and deserves respect, but every man deserves to be pitied for the likeness of God which he has lost and which can only be restored through a relationship with Jesus Christ, who is more than a book, He is the Living Word of God, and any relationship with Him demands an obedience to the Word He represents, thus, how can a man «walk humbly with God» while at the same time rejecting the His very Word?

For if we say it ourselves it is almost inevitable that we should either protest against it or indulge in self - pity; at best we shall be at a loss, not knowing what to do about it all.

If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him.

As soon as you abandon this silly belief in an all - powerful sky dweller with a special plan for your life, you lose the «why me» pity plea at every appearance of misfortune.

Professional theologians today hesitate to share their experience, fearing lest the pure objectivity and the transcendent reference point of their God thoughts be thereby obscured; but this is a great pity, for when they define their role merely in ecclesiastical or academic terms, thus in effect hiding behind their official identity, it renders their theology at best enigmatic and at worst downright boring.

this just shows that the world is getting weirder by the day... the pope is right, the world is experiencing amnesia nowadays... people especially in the west tends to have this amnesia coz they believe that they can live without God... they believe that they do nt need Him coz, they still able to survive... BUT what they do nt realize what these are all temporary... just look at the crisis going on right now... maybe God is still a mystery coz only FAITH can conquer mystery... can anybody out there lead me to any person who can create simply a tree, a true living tree... we know for sure that there are some who can create furnitures out from a tree... im really bothered that the world will end sooner than later... GOD FORBIDS... history just keeps on repeating itself... what a pity for the small children and the coming generation...

But till the end give me the man who takes the best of everything (even at my expense) and then talks of other things, rather than the man who serves me and talks of himself, and whose very kindnesses are a continual reproach, a continual demand for pity, gratitude, and admiration.

I pity that you look with such contempt at people you know nothing about and beliefs that you know nothing about.

Patrick H wrote on August 7, 2011 at 10:11 am, «What ever our protestations, are not most of us concerned with our selves, our resentments or our self pity?

It is a pity that Allitt stops at 1985, before «the Catholic moment» was promulgated by a definitely non-authoritative source.

Pity the culturally deprived boobs who live at a distance from the «mystically connected monologues» of Weimar on the Hudson.

Any gay person can tell you of the same fear of rejection by those they trust the most at that time upon coming out... the religiously - minded in our society are so self - righteous about their beliefs that when a loved one comes out as a non-believer their first genuine instinct is to pity you and work frantically to «save» you.

Well today I have the chance to be at one of those conferences — Big Tent Christianity — primarily because I'm a poor writer from a small town whose publisher took pity on her and paid the way.

When Henry realizes that Fanny has noted his objection to «constancy,» Fanny replies: «I thought it a pity you did not always know yourself as well as you seemed to do at that moment.»

The despised lepers standing at a distance and calling out to God for pity is just like the despised tax collector standing at a distance and calling out to God for mercy.

This creates a type of double - consciousness; it leads to a «sense of always looking at one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity» (SBF 16 - 17).

At best, those who believe in a god deserve pity.

You will see Him and He will look at you with pity, because He loves you.

’22 It is not at all certain, however, that Paul intended to convey the particular implication that has so often been taken out of this verse, which the New English Bible renders alternatively, and perhaps more correctly, as, «If it is only an uncertain hope that our life in Christ has given us, we of all men are most to be pitied.»

For pity's sake, let's just go home, I like all of you people better when we're at home and properly rested.

Dan had the good sense to be at a friend's house, playing Halo that night, so I wallowed alone in self - pity for a while before rousing myself to take a picture of the sugar - doused pie with my phone, tweet about the fiasco, and soak in the sympathy of my readers.