Example sentences for: self-pitying

How can you use “self-pitying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Jon Katz broods in the isolation of his suburban basement office, apparently limiting his contact to the outside world to e-mail from other self-pitying souls: He composed his Victims' Manifesto, that impenetrable screed called Virtuous Reality.

  • He is self-righteous and self-pitying.

  • Written by a self-pitying autodidact for consumption by self-pitying autodidacts, A Fan's Notes divides the world into two camps: tortured, bewildered misfits (Exleys) and serene, fair-haired conformists (Giffords).

  • ) More important, it has the Farrellys' characteristic mix of misery and brightness: Whenever the view of the working poor threatens to become oppressively self-pitying, the filmmakers pull something nutty out of their hat--a scam, a bit of stoner dialogue, a jolt of rock 'n' roll--to prove that this particular end only looks dead.

  • While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."


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