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Example sentences for: pitiful

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Most consumers, studies have shown, believe themselves impervious to the pitiful ploys of advertising.
The Daily Star of Bangladesh paints the Iraqi crisis as a pitiful Iraq against a ruthless aggressor in an editorial Sunday, saying, " 'Defiance' of a despoiled country resonates with a total back-to-the-wall desperation."
When the '60s veterans try to play some pitiful music, they are quickly drowned out by the frantic brainstorming of their corporate descendants.
(Some of the freshest lines in the book come with his description of Oliver Stone's film The Doors , which "offers an inadvertent parody, a portrait of an amateur oracle's excruciatingly dull metamorphosis into a pitiful, drunken slob.")
Someone has also wound up the Jack Kemp doll, which declares the 10 percent proposal "timid and pitiful."