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Example sentences for: pity

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You have to pity Messinger--first because the brand of liberalism she is identified with was the universal philosophy of the city's elite until a few years ago, and second because nobody's listening to the second thoughts she's been having about it.
But ah, yes, here comes the grandmotherly language: "Oh, for pity's sake, here we go again."
… An item pokes fun at Hollywood's newest excess: "pity brokers."
It is a pity that the articles are not provided with the dates of their publication, though it is not difficult to understand why the publisher might be reluctant to do so.
Supremely convinced of this point, Brookhiser has gone ahead and brought out his own little edition of Washington's rules under the title Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace , slightly altered to eliminate the 18 th -century idiosyncrasies (a pity) and emended with small commentaries by Brookhiser himself, some of them pertaining to events in Washington's life, others solemnly applying of Washington's rules to circumstances of today.