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Well, when you stop being frightened of someone and then you stop pitying them, there's not really a lot left.
Whenever I pull them out of my bag, I can feel the amused and somewhat pitying stares of other golfers upon me.
Christopher is compelling and loveable in his lack of guile, but I quickly found myself pitying him rather than seeing him as an equal.
She watched him struggle to answer, almost pitying at the poor frightened creature.
Her smile was slightly sad and regretful, almost pitying as she continued speaking.
He wrote with temperateness, and in pitying love of human nature, in the instinctive hope of helping it to know and redeem itself.
Meanwhile, the other winged putto looks sadly over her shoulder, perhaps pitying Cupid, or possibly foreseeing his own fate.
More straightforwardly aggressive 12 months ago, yesterday he mixed contempt with pitying mockery.
She has given us a romantically pithy, pitying, historically precise masterpiece.
She is pitying my cynical singledom, and I am worrying about her future.
What should have been a moment of reckoning for a selfish, serial liar instead ended with us pitying him.
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.
But pitying her as an icon of suffering would miss the point.
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.
Jubei found himself actually pitying the two poor young men.
There is small profit to be had from exhausting our minds and feelings in pitying ourselves for being born into an upset world.
Galina slipped in for a moment and with a pitying look gave me a blanket.
The landlady looked at him de haut en bas, rather pitying, and at the same time, resenting his clear, fierce morality.
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.
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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The tradesmen with whom she had to deal came slowly to have a pitying respect for her.
He spoke with pitying scorn of the money-clinking crowd who were too time-poor to enjoy the keenest delights that earth can offer.
Even the Volscian soldiers watched them with pitying eyes, and spoke no scornful word as they moved slowly past.
The pitying world looks on and measures the unwed lovers' loss, but who can measure their gain?
Sumner has been dining with us, and he and chev have been pitying unmarried women.
When Hermon, with his pitying heart, condemns this kind of hunting, he is right.
Her hand must be taught to heed the pleadings of her pitying heart.
A carious smile, almost a pitying smile, was hovering on her lips.
When I was born no pitying angel dipped my spirit-fire in Lethe.
As with a man busied about decrees, Condemning some to death and some to exile, Ransoming him or pitying, threatening the other.
Then, as if pitying a want of skill which had proved so fortunate to himself, he smiled, and muttered a few words of contempt in his own tongue.
Everybody was pitying Tom, he looked so quiet and sorrowful, and seemed to feel his great loss so deeply.
I received in reply a shake of the head and a pitying smile.
His pitying eyes searched the lineaments of the poor wretch.
Let me believe that I may hold you to your noble, pitying words.
Poor Danglars looked so crest-fallen and discomfited that Monte Cristo assumed a pitying air towards him.
The incumbrance of their pitying glances was getting his cosmic lizard.
It was the soft studiedly understated tone, both pitying and slightly embarrassed for her, that he used when she didn't know something he thought she should.
Parker gave her the incredulous, pitying, sneering, icy stare that she kept for those who failed to qualify as doctors or dentists, and led the way to the second floor back.
That sudden pitying inflection tingeing voices avid with curiosity.
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