No doubt I was a pitiful thing to look at.

The rock was in my hand again, but it seemed a pitiful thing, a child's response.

It seemed so pitiful a thing to say-so small and futile.

I came across one of the most pitiful things I have ever known.

He looked down at the pitiful thing to which the Gutierrez woman had just given birth.

The pitiful thing that she deserted within the shelter by the beach!

But his charge was a pitiful thing to see.

A pitiful thing, really, even had it been completed.

My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction somebody points me.

It is the most pitiful thing in the world.