Well, when you stop being frightened of someone and then you stop pitying them, there's not really a lot left. |
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Whenever I pull them out of my bag, I can feel the amused and somewhat pitying stares of other golfers upon me. |
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Christopher is compelling and loveable in his lack of guile, but I quickly found myself pitying him rather than seeing him as an equal. |
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She watched him struggle to answer, almost pitying at the poor frightened creature. |
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Her smile was slightly sad and regretful, almost pitying as she continued speaking. |
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He wrote with temperateness, and in pitying love of human nature, in the instinctive hope of helping it to know and redeem itself. |
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Meanwhile, the other winged putto looks sadly over her shoulder, perhaps pitying Cupid, or possibly foreseeing his own fate. |
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More straightforwardly aggressive 12 months ago, yesterday he mixed contempt with pitying mockery. |
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She has given us a romantically pithy, pitying, historically precise masterpiece. |
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She is pitying my cynical singledom, and I am worrying about her future. |
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What should have been a moment of reckoning for a selfish, serial liar instead ended with us pitying him. |
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But until then I shall writhe silently under the pitying glances of friends and readers wondering how I could have got it quite so wrong. |
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But pitying her as an icon of suffering would miss the point. |
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And when you've all done pitying, you have to run up to Stephen, grab hold of both of his great puddingy cheeks and give them a good old nip and stretch of congratulations. |
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Jubei found himself actually pitying the two poor young men. |
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There is small profit to be had from exhausting our minds and feelings in pitying ourselves for being born into an upset world. |
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Galina slipped in for a moment and with a pitying look gave me a blanket. |
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The landlady looked at him de haut en bas, rather pitying, and at the same time, resenting his clear, fierce morality. |
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Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukESTHER DUFLO grew up in France pitying Kolkata's poor, based on what she had read in a comic book about Mother Teresa. |
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Savage castigates the men, tells them to stop pitying themselves, and musters their morale as they prepare for longer and more dangerous daylight missions far into German territory. |
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Then, rather abruptly, I find myself under Velázquez's spell again, as if I had never been before — pitying the fool that I must have been when I last viewed the work. |
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In the long-run this has consequences that in other places might provoke a pitying smile, but in Bavaria anyone seeking political success has to bow to these traditions. |
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He who lives pitying himself becomes weak and cannot develop. |
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When he got there, he found his colleagues tucking into roast chicken and other tastier things than njahi and could not help pitying himself. |
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The Boogeyman is played with devilish self pitying glee by a terrific Jude Law who is clearly having a ball. |
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