At first Paoul had found Hothen a pitiable creature, dominated by a mother who only made his difficulties worse.

"Drafting such pitiable creatures into the service of an ideological aggression" against bourgeois life struck him as "heartless nonsense."

I hadn't given life to the pitiable creatures that he had committed himself to freeing.

"I'm not a pitiable creature," she says.

Perhaps you're familiar with these pitiable creatures.

Wagner was no feminist, but knowingly or not, he put men in their place as pitiable creatures wholly dependent on women from birth to death.

I am a pitiable creature," she said, "good neither for earth nor heaven any more!

He is the most pitiable creature I have ever met, and in your service 1 have traveled back and forth across the whole known world.

We would be pitiable creatures indeed to be so weak, for is not a man's spirit given to him to rise above his misfortunes?

Ellert refrained from choosing this pitiable creature as his trial host.