Naturally, he'd always shied away from emotional attachments, especially romantic ones, since love was something he knew pitifully little about. |
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Wearing a life vest, Ma took a boat to inspect the pitifully parched riverbeds of the funnel-shaped dam at the reservoir. |
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The writer is pitifully ignorant of the history of the field about which he purports to correct his elders and betters. |
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The fence, now electrified no longer and partially nonexistent, sagged pitifully. |
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The wind picked up and washed over him, and he shivered and whimpered pitifully. |
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There was really no need to fling the freezer door shut and throw myself theatrically across the linoleum floor, moaning pitifully. |
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The exhibition included predictable scenes of patients cowering pitifully in gloomy, overcrowded asylums. |
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Every now and then, a baby would climb up near the sides, pitifully crying. |
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The dragon turned to look over its shoulder, flapping its broken wings pitifully. |
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The only peacekeepers in the area are a pitifully underfunded force preparing to leave at the end of the month. |
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Left to its own devices, it was pitifully unable to mount a serious military operation. |
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Try to understand what people are talking about so as not to make pitifully uninformed comments. |
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The average income can be pitifully low, with some families trying to survive on tiny pensions. |
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Third, stay in the book business long enough to change the market dynamic and plow all those pitifully puny stores under. |
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Instead we seem inescapably on course to end up with a lame duck park, with a mangled boundary and pitifully truncated planning powers. |
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Sometimes this tale of interrupted promise swung on pitifully threadbare evidence. |
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He struggled under the weight of the heavy tomes, his twiggy arms flailing pitifully. |
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The cat immediately began to twine in and out of his legs, mewling pitifully. |
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The kittens were mewling pitifully, and I picked up their box and carefully carried it down the hallway and into my room. |
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Twice GHA opted to kick at goal but both efforts by Noonan fell pitifully short. |
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In the absence of the high-flying wire-assisted stunts of his later pictures, he looks pitifully immature, even mortal. |
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The mew of a hungry cat drifts pitifully from the nearby fish stall. |
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I found my little girl on the playground. I could hardly recognize her, she looked so pitifully dirty. |
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Even when salaries are paid, they are pitifully small and vary according to the ability and age of the domestic worker. |
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Tell them that the resurrection was not on Sunday morning and you will be seen as a crackpot, weird or pitifully ignorant. |
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The fighting has swilled viciously back and forth over the handful of towns that make up the pitifully poor country. |
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Imagine those tens of thousand of books and magazines pitifully leaving the green and flowery campus for a darksome shelter. |
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He bobbed to the surface, howling pitifully, his paws thrashing. |
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Tyson was wearing dark glasses to cover his puffy left eye and sucked on a towel rather pitifully. |
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The identities of pitifully few of those held at Mitchell can be determined. |
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It might surprise him a bit, but he will most likely appreciate it, especially if he's on the pitifully low budget that most students are on. |
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Come witching hour, only truly zealous or pitifully desperate students remain. |
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Our artists are living on pitifully small amounts of money and they create the music we love. |
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The stocks are still pitifully few, relative to what we had in the 1980s and 1960, but at least the signs are positive as opposed to negative. |
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The young cat sat morosely by the side of the road, mewing pitifully. |
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But the king is inveterately prey to the hungers of the senses, ad pleads pitifully with son after son to take on his senility and gift him youth for some time more. |
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The reason you want to do this is not to burn off the pitifully small amount of calories you will consume from walking. |
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The cat started meowing pitifully outside the doctor's door. |
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As this cloistered, claustrophobic existence begins to give way to outside pressure, the pathos of Lamb and Doggo's stories is made pitifully real. |
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Each question they asked they looked pitifully bad. |
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A man is what his life is. If a man does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work upon himself, he is pitifully wasting his time. |
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Necessary or not, these illegal labourers live apart, often in shacks without water and electricity, paid pitifully little and despised by the local agricultural elite. |
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But effective laws, already on the books, are pitifully underenforced by the Environmental Protection Agency. |
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Colbert was properly, perhaps pitifully, deferential to Letterman. |
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The CEO of one of the largest state leagues sent out a pitifully frantic letter stating that cramdowns would apply to all mortgages. |
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The 'compensation' offered by Newmont, besides being pitifully inadequate, amounted to 'hush money' more than anything else and had the effect of dividing the community. |
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Yreka, surprised by the sudden burst of light, whimpers pitifully, but does not pause in her effort to eat her newest whelp free from its amniotic sac. |
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There are pitifully few hopes to draw upon, though. |
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And Justice Rehnquist though bareheaded and ill, pitifully underclad for the cold, with his tracheotomy tube wobbling at his throat was basking in the climate he had helped to create. |
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Mrs Merkel regards Mr Hollande's reforms as pitifully inadequate, while he has been making common cause with southern Mediterranean countries against her excessive austerity. |
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This achievement is made all the more remarkable by the fact that funding for research in Psychology in Canada is pitifully small when compared to the funds available in many of the other G-7 countries. |
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We have been much less successful in Japan, where the volume of European car exports is still pitifully small, though it has more than doubled since 1986, and is expected to double again over the next four years. |
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Unfortunately, a few days later, the Liberals pitifully caved in, putting their party's interests ahead of the interests of citizens, the interests of the people they represent. |
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After the chaos, my family spent the rest of the day hanging ornaments passed down through generations while a plug-in bird chirper cackled pitifully in the background. |
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