Along the way, you've got lots of pitiful attempts at push-back spin from administration officials who won't give their name.
I've always considered myself somewhat of a hopeless romantic, armed with crazy ideas and retrospectively pitiful fantasies about ways to woo.
This pitiful look is destroyed by this lady's mockery, which draws to similar action those who perhaps might well see that piteousness.
The answer was so pathetic and pitiful that there was no way I could reveal it.
I couldn't face the DVD extras, I could only lament the loss of an hour-and-a-half of my already pitiful life.
Annabelle felt sorry for the pitiful sight a death had caused a girl who used to be attractive and envied.
These two wounded souls conduct a strange, exhilarating, pitiful love affair, with a tragic outcome.
They seemed to stretch out their bony, senile fingers to grab her whilst the pitiful willow wept in sorrow at her distress.
Shane was truly a pitiful, pathetic human being, and Tal would not waste his time on him, not anymore.
Goldberg's descent into pathetic lack of humanity has been a pitiful thing to watch.
It makes us look pitiful and pity is not something that we want, we want respect.
It implied, moreover, that the strikers were pitiful wretches whose problems should be addressed through social uplift or charity.
If you'd prefer to die with the wretched mortals of this pitiful world, then you are not fit to walk with darkness.
Instead of graceful movement through the water, when it tries to swim the impression it gives is of a pitiful thrashing about.
Pathetic deaths and pitiful rhymes also characterized much of the poetry written about newsboys during this period.
Bonjean's attempt at damage control is so sorry and pitiful that it's almost like watching a car wreck.
After all, what sensible man would want to get into a relationship that led to marriage with such a poor, pitiful piece of filth?
His pitiful attempt at explaining failed miserably, although he was too ignorant to notice it.
Research is pitiful, as are the attempts to provide references and a detailed bibliography of sources.
The journey only made him seem pitiful and insignificant in the general scheme of things.
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I'm sorry, your pitiful arguments just do not hold up in the face of facts like this.
In a pitiful attempt to recover from the picture-posting fiasco I shall share some interesting information with you.
Emily makes a pitiful attempt to pull her down the steps every morning and some evenings.
I recall Birmingham City Councils pitiful attempt to rebrand the Christmas period winterval.
But Taylor's barrack-room bleating in defence of poor Rio has been nothing short of pitiful.
I shook my head despairingly, thinking about my own pitiful form of transport and felt deep pity for my feet slaves.
The owner of the pitiful castle, a small, insignificant knight was very welcoming.
Poor Karl, who wears a pitiful wig and returns Lizzie's kindness by trying to protect her from daddy, endures endless humiliations.
It has a few pitiful wretches for clubs, places which would, in Manchester, have been put out of their misery long ago.
Who in this house would be able to heat their homes for a pitiful and measly 9 a week? she asked.
In a pitiful and pathetic attempt to get his party re-elected, he has disgraced your wonderful country.
Did their pitiful cries and prayers rise into the night to a God who seemed deaf and pitiless as their cruel jailers?
Open drains, piles of uncleared garbage, filth and pitiful shacks are everywhere.
The rough folds of skin at the corners of the familiar eyes became taut and she grimaced in pitiful disgust.
Erik shook his head in disgust as he looked at his brother crumpled on the floor and looking so pitiful.
In your pathetic grip on socializing and pitiful understanding of how to present yourself, you will always be five steps behind everyone else.
The rest of the football jocks, all of whom are getting A's somehow, laugh their pitiful guffaws.
The play is a history of his romantic failures, with amorous adventures ranging from the comic to the pitiful but always dismal failures.
Most importantly, we have tools to fight the pitiful dispiritedness that has taken over newsrooms nationally.
We're told that pitiful few of the original records, sleeves, and promotional ephemera still exist.
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But his would-be debonair, self-satisfied yet insecure dotard could not be more appropriately laughable or pitiful.
And few could have failed to be moved by the five pitiful bodies of quins, lined up stiffly in a row.
Tony Williams is a pitiful wretch, on the jetsam on the shore of the Anacostia.
So as an act of pitiful rebellion against the fact that I even have to be at work, I'm refusing to turn the office lights on.
It was a pitiful thing to find fortunate, but at that point she would grab and claw at anything that could possibly brighten the atmosphere.
Cue whinge after whinge after pitiful whinge about how fat she thinks she is, and how much weight she must have put on since entering the house.
A pitiful thousand men left from our large expedition stood up to join me, almost none woundless.
If that is true, then what a truly pitiful bunch of lazy, coffee house analysts we are.
Morphine and laudanum addicts were usually seen as pitiful unfortunates living failed lives as a result of their habits.
When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry.
Trying to ignore Darci as she made her pitiful attempts to make it up with Sarah, and Kane and his all too happy attitude.
As if our hitting and fielding weren't pitiful enough, our baby-blue uniforms carried the name of the local mental hospital.
For them, it is difficult to get sentimental about the back-breaking labour and the pitiful annual income.
Both of the pitiful creatures shot away, scrabbling with claws and paws across the floor and out of sight.
Mr Bernadi noticed my pitiful attempts at breathing and grabbed an inhaler from the medicine cabinet.
The contemporary preoccupation with self is not so much a reflection of the moral decadence of our age as a pitiful search for identity.
She had tow-colored hair that was chopped short, and a pale pitiful little face.
Now, I have to confess that I'm so pitiful at math that in high school I could barely crack a passing grade in trig.
His cartooning never condescends to its subject, even when he's drawing his pitiful owl terrifying the birdies he wants to play with.
It is rather pitiful that Cork hospitals are being so slavish in considering following the lead set down by Dublin.
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I believe his obnoxious behaviour is a gloss to cover an immature, unconfident, pathetic and pitiful character.
That free-kick came a long, long way before it engaged Bouma's bonce, and the marking was pitiful.
This, I thought at the time, was unsurprising given the presumably pitiful state of the Ghanaian school system.
When they pleaded more, I just ignored their pitiful urging and went on my way.
Some time ago, Bancroft set her hand to painting Bunyips, and this is her pitiful result.
The film starts with a likable and seemingly talented young man, and ends with a pitiful cheater.
Our framers and passers of bills are generally dealing with a pitiful few of the many features actually entering into the problem.
Her pitiful attempts at music making leave her envious of those with perfect pitch.
And so, many struggle to get by on a pitiful allowance of 40 leva a month with very little chance of bettering themselves or finding a means for independent living.
But you don't want to end up seeming like a pitiful doofus like him.
They shake their heads a bit dismissively at our pitiful pace.
The thief looks at the unclothed, bruised and bloodied body of Jesus, hanging in pitiful humiliation, and sees his glorious Saviour and mighty King.
She comes across as a pitiful figure, a very sad and very tragic figure.
It's pitiful, yet she doesn't want to be pitied, so what do I do?
I resist the urge to slam my head against the steering wheel until I lose consciousness and settle for beating my fists against the dashboard of my pitiful rental car.
When the referee mercifully signalled a conclusion, the short burst of booing from the supporters became the most eloquent action of a pitiful fixture.
Standing before an expectant audience of French speakers with nothing but a few pitiful phrases and a lot of arm-waving to offer, the whole idea now appears vraiment merde.
Mashira took one last look at the pitiful heap on the floor, sniffed, and gracefully left the apartments to gather all the priestesses to the inner sanctum.
Your pitiful attempt at a cover-up afterwards only cost us more trouble.
And during a work detail in excruciating heat, he discovered a water pipe from which he lapped a pitiful drop or two without sharing it with a cleric laboring nearby.
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His eyes held a sad dimness as he gazed on my pitiful figure.
The bulb was unshaded and gave off a pitiful amount of light.
Archers fired at the raging beast, but his powerful armour and great bulk absorbed the pitiful wooden arrows as if they were just light mosquito bites.
He looked really pitiful that I felt sorry for him and I agreed.
These are not satanic monsters, but tragic, pitiful figures.
It's been accused of rampant misogyny but the men are so pitiful and the show so unfunny that I won't be getting my knickers in a twist about the sexism.
But if Othello dies a deluded and confused figure, would that not rob him of all dignity and nobility, turning him into the pitiful victim of a vicious, hostile society?
He presented such a pathetically pitiful creature, I wanted to kill him.
It was a pitiful sight to see such a fine ambassador for British sport sitting on the kerb, head in hands, shaking her head, a physical and emotional wreck.
This diatribe against the pitiful Washington Redskins summed it all up for their fans.
I rolled out of bed at six and shuffled to the bathroom to brush my teeth, clean and put away my retainers, and wash my face in a pitiful attempt to wake up.
People have been living under these pitiful circumstances for decades.
The number of diplomats was pitiful, as was the amount of money allocated to them.
Bourbon looked at Farly, who looked just a little pitiful slumped on the couch, hands folded on his stomach, his soft, floppy ears hanging low on his head.
The ring of intellect and humour alone risks a hollow sound, but the undeniable success of this show lies beyond the volume, in a kind of pitiful pop-eyed self-awareness.
Sport isn't supposed to be this way, angry and pitiful and disgraceful.
The least she could do was crawl back into her severely stylish shell, so she wouldn't look pitiful when he gave her the old heave-ho.
Reports on the pitiful state of many prisons have finally percolated through to the Home Office, which has promised to look into the situation.
The vast majority of Britain's chickens spend their short, pitiful six-week lives living on top of their own excreta.
However, under Henry misgovernment and harvest failures depressed the English economy to a pitiful state known as the Great Slump.
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Beyond the pitiful blokeishness of this marketing campaign is the bigger issue of stereotyping fan gender.
It was a pitiful display and Welsh never stepped into a professional ring again.
The vast majority of Britain's chickens spend their short, pitiful six week lives living on top of their own excreta.
It was therefore resolved that the king should ride on Humphrey Penderel's horse, which was taken from the grass, and accoutred with a pitiful old saddle and a worse bridle.
It were too pitiful to have men starve after such a service.
Yet, inexplicably, Bowyer misses the obvious shot and leads with a pitiful rabbit punch, fails to connect properly and allows his opponent to gather himself.
Anti-poverty group War on Want's Fashion Victims report said the workers were paid pitiful wages and made to work long hours in factories to produce the garments.
Steerpike derived as much pleasure in watching these anile and pitiful creatures, dressed in their purple finery, as they crawled beneath the carpet as he got from anything.

At prayers morning and evening, it was pitiful to observe her glance of entreaty and her downfallen eyelashes.
Wiping her eyes hurriedly, she turned to him with a pitiful, apologetic smile.
For eight days he had much fever, and his appealing looks were pitiful to see.
This is the best, as it is the pitiful foolishness of the blackcock younglings.
He was just blooey, and saved himself from being pitiful by shrinking back into a shell of chalky-faced self-sufficiency.
I had it now, the whole damnable, pitiful story, every fact clear-cut to the bone.
To his house came the club-footed bear at midnight, worn and nearly spent with the pitiful journey.
It was a coureur de bois, not hurt in body, but so frightened that his state was pitiful.
It's the most pitiful and devitalized thing that ever ran up and down the earth.
Like a poet invoking his muse, Macbeth calls on seeling night to scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.
While some of his pitiful tale was true, some was sprinkled with the fairy dust of fancy.
Father fontanel stared at him with the most pitiful eyes ever seen in child or woman.
What a pitiful face it was, this weary, loosened, futureless old face above him!
Is it not most pitiful to see a human being, made in the image of God, sunk so low?
And your allusions to March-cats and March-Khalids are too pitiful to be humorous.
Human meanness is never so pitiful as when it tries to seize on God's judgments as weapons with which to gratify its own spites.
Thus klick describes for us the pulsating horror of perhaps one of the most pitiful nights in Russian history.
Isn't it strange and sad and pitiful, that it is the summer guest who alone enjoys the delights of summering in the country?
Indeed, for the last mile he had uttered no pitiful comment and given no invitation.
I do not know whether the sight to you would have been pitiful or ludicrous.
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It was pitiful for the country to see how lumpish her younger children were.
One of the most pitiful cases of toadyism known to me was witnessed that very day in the foot-ball field.
Two or three times a week a trainload of two hundred or more of these pitiful creatures arrived, many of them in a dying state.
One of the most pitiful examples of this failure to connect is that of the childless woman and the friendless, uncared-for child.
For the most pitiful and unclassical reason that ever disgraced a human creature.
Daily he met with examples of shamefully degraded manhood, of pitiful want, and of unhelped suffering.
Let you walk on now with your worn feet, and your welted knees, and your fasting, holy ways a thin pitiful arm.
It was pitiful to hear him whinny as he smelt the water in the distance, and not to be able to get him any.
He was very pitiful of her in her wrought-up state, and he soothed her with tender caresses.
And it was with a child's look of pitiful dismay and perplexity that he faced the sheriff.
Male cast merribers include Russian bass Mikhail Petrenko, American tenor Tom Randle as the pitiful Aegisth and Franz Mazura as Orestes' tutor.
He gradually grew more morbid, and became a rather pitiful victim of insomnia, the drug chloral, and spiritualistic delusions about his wife.
Neither grandmother nor I could go out in the storm, so Jake fed the chickens and brought in a pitiful contribution of eggs.
He was going away from them, his pitiful, dishonored children that were welcome nowhere.
She turned up to him her pitiful, writhen face, white as parchment.
No one, however, acknowledged his signals, his frowns, or his pitiful gestures.
In her pitiful state she was inclined to take umbrage at anything.
The brave Kate was reduced to a pitiful outburst of tearless sobs.
Lugging a fellow up for a pitiful, paltry sum of twenty pounds!
She was startled by the throe of pitiful regret that seized her.
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A stupendous discovery or a pitiful figment of a lunatic brain!
It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.
Marilla, listening fearfully outside the door, heard a pitiful, heartbroken moan, and fled to the kitchen where Susan was weeping.
The pitiful thing about anker was that he was such a good craftsman.
No, but ever pursues the same old round, the same pitiful circle.
It was pitiful to see a creature so terrified, so unnerved, so demoralized.
It seemed to me that a bean shooter would have been as effective against the mighty monster as these pitiful weapons.
In a pitiful throng they gathered around the dressing station.
When he came up to me and my companions he stood still and gave a pitiful look round upon us.
It was pitiful to see the erstwhile Whittaker majority melt away.
They elevated the end of the hatch-cover with pitiful haste, and, like a dog flung overside, the dead man slid feet first into the sea.
The result was pitiful, and the four showed their caliber in the division of the few pounds of food that had been recovered.
Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
She was soaking wet, had a small cut on her head and looked really pitiful.
She seemed to see him coming to meet her, pitiful, a little greyer, with an appealing look and an extended, tremulous arm.
He had lost even this pitiful chance of bettering his condition.
It went on for an hour, then the tired child went to sleep, and it was pitiful to hear her moan and nestle, and I couldn't do anything for her.
Slowly she swung from her course, circling back toward us in an erratic and pitiful manner.
It was a crowbar, that pitiful sum of money accumulated by two years of crucifixion.
It only needs that a just man should walk in our streets to make it appear how pitiful and inartificial a contrivance is our legislation.
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It would be pitiful to have to make him still more miserable!
Your pitiful little conventions and smug assumptions of decency would prevent.
It was a pitiful surrender to agitation, but my being aware of this had somehow no power to restore me.
It is all true, true to character, and pitiful beyond words.
There was a long pause, during which Jane knit silently, wiping the tears from her eyes from time to time, as she looked at the pitiful figure lying weakly on the pillows.
Yes, you pitiful dastard,' retorted the lovely damsel, 'I understand you.
That he was close by was attested by the pitiful crying of the kid.
Thus I shall rejoice when Mademoiselle Eugenie perceives I am but a pitiful atom, with scarcely as many hundred thousand francs as she has millions.
That beats the express trains of the pitiful globe called the earth.
How we barely escaped the cruel fangs of lions and tigers the size of which would dwarf into pitiful insignificance the greatest felines of the outer world.
The poor victims of the sale, who had been brought up in one place together for years, gathered round the despairing old mother, whose agony was pitiful to see.
Noirtier the unwelcome meal that sustains his pitiful existence.

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