The gay characters were presented as suffering from an affliction, or if not, at least as being pitiably different. |
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His back was straight again, after all those years of being so pitiably hunched and trembling from the Parkinson's disease. |
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I am terribly sorry, but we are pitiably unprepared to entertain such distinguished company as yourself, your majesty. |
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Forced to return to her pitiably poor parents, she is finally forced into prostitution and each new event in her despairing life is a turn of the screw. |
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When atrocious trouble does come, he suffers it most pitiably. |
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The human babe is a pitiably helpless and lamentably ignorant animal. |
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The region was pitiably poor 40 years ago, when Torremolinos's first hotel went up. |
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But am I clambering pitiably on to a celeb bandwagon, or does the ubiquity of OCD bespeak something deeper? |
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Making over 200 appearances for Liverpool and winning an FA Cup, League Cup and eight England caps would amount to a lovely career for most players, but it was a pitiably small return for Jones' talent. |
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The Government's offer of £50m to the flood victims is pitiably small. |
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Teachers' salaries are still pitiably low, as Rio de Janeiro's teachers remarked as they went on strike this week, leaving 1m children without classes. But at least one battle is being won. |
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Parents complain that their older children lack common sense, while their offspring regard them as mentally sluggish and pitiably out of touch with current reality. |
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