Word: pitifull
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Esau was the hunger, the simple, direct son. I preferred the imaginative one, the smooth, clever Jacob who sat in my tent watching the rages of Isaac turn first on the son within himself, the pitiful kitten fathered by a lion, careful of its stride, watching slow rage then turn...
Among the first pitiful sights on the road, witnessed by several Westerners, were patients from Phnom Penh's grossly overcrowded hospitals, perhaps 20,000 people all told. Even the dying, the maimed and the pregnant were herded out stumbling onto the streets. Several pathetic cases were pushed along the...
"We just kicked the ball around today, and we just got beat," Park said afterward. And that was about all that was left to say on a day that was, in a word, pitiful.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.--"This is pitiful," Harvard's Scott Walker said here under the shadow of the Yale Bowl late yesterday afternoon, soaking his sprained ankle in an icepack while the Harvard tennis team fell quickly behind in the doubles competition against Yale.
And indeed it was pitiful, as the mighty Elis decisively quashed the Crimson's upset bid, 6-3, by striking quickly for four one-sided singles wins, then cruising home with a pair of doubles victories.