(...) Everything is certain from the outset: incentives from anonymous financial backers, the deed ( always from behind ), sloppy investigation, lazy excuses, a few phrases, pitiful skiving, lenient punishments, suspension of sentences, privileges – " Carry on!

… The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so many parodies on legitimate Christian Science, aflame with divine Love.

She called out to them to stop fleeing from " such pitiful wretches ", adding that if she had weapons, she could do better than that.

The day after he wrote to Burghley: " Sickness and mortality begins wonderfully to grow amongst us ; and it is a most pitiful sight to see ... how the men, having no place to receive them into here, die in the streets.

On 29 August he informed Walsingham: " There is not any of them that hath one day's victuals, and many them have sent many sick men ashore here, and not one penny to relieve them ... It were too pitiful to have men starve after such a service.

" He added, " I was in five of them, and to have played in it five in the ten years it was in existence is pitiful.

Wives would regularly testify to the same pitiful ( and usually false ) facts: their husbands swore at them, hit them, and generally treated them terribly.

However, Smith denies any credit for this trend and claims it is a coincidence that the styles are similar, stating that he wore make-up since he was young and further saying: " It's so pitiful when ' Goth ' is still tagged onto the name The Cure.

Debord readily admits in his film A Critique of Separation ( 1961 ), " The sectors of a city … are decipherable, but the personal meaning they have for us is incommunicable, as is the secrecy of private life in general, regarding which we possess nothing but pitiful documents ".

This is best exemplified by Trotsky's comment to him and other party members as they left the first meeting of the council of Soviets after October 25, 1917 in disgust at the way in which the Bolsheviks had seized political power: " You are pitiful isolated individuals ; you are bankrupts ; your role is played out.

Stories told of him are characteristic: Called to a gentleman who had been subjected to the lowering treatment, and finding him in a pitiful state of hysterical upset, he conceived that this was occasioned partly by his long illness, partly by the previous evacuations, and partly by emptiness.

A little candour and common sense properly applied would make the Post Office authorities understand that nothing short of confusion can be expected from a Department which as the Post Office to the Forces, is sent out in a pitiful state of hopelessness, with a heavy load of responsibility and with no adequate means of labour resources and powers ..." The article then went on to mention the use of soldiers to assist at the Army Post Office " A close and patient enquiry into the details of the Army Post Office has convinced me that not the slightest blame attaches to the two Postmasters Smith and Angell, who are merely victims of circumstances.

:*" Oh, do not let us wait to be just or pitiful or demonstrative toward those we love until they or we are struck down by illness or threatened with death!

Professor Paul Crutzen, who won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for his work on the hole in the ozone layer, believes that political attempts to limit man-made greenhouse gases are so pitiful that a radical contingency plan is needed.

They are invited to improve mustard-bowl thunder ( as the sound effect of thunder on the stage had been made using a mustard bowl and a shot previously, and John Dennis had invented a new method ) and the sound of the bell ( used in tragedies to enhance the pitiful action ).

While local leaders from both sides of the abortion debate decried these rallies as potential incitements to further violence, more extreme members of the pro-life community, such as Flip Benham of Operation Rescue, labeled calls for nonviolence " pitiful " and suggested that unless abortion was outlawed, " we are in store for more bloodshed in the streets — the likes of which will sicken even the sturdiest among us.

The standards of comedy are so pitiful, Galfast High School should not have been given a grant from TV licence-payers ' money and it is time it closed its gates for good.

Soon after this notable strewing of their footmen's weapons, began a pitiful sight of the dead corpses lying dispersed abroad, some their legs off, some but houghed, and left lying half-dead, some thrust quite through the body, others the arms cut off, diverse their necks half asunder, many their heads cloven, of sundry the brains pasht out, some others again their heads quite off, with other many kinds of killing.

After the sack of Rome left the plebeians in pitiful condition, they were forced to borrow large sums of money from the patricians, and once again became the poor debtor class of Rome.

The pitiful display by Russian forces in the Crimean War left the government acutely aware of the empire's backwardness.

Celebrity Farm left a pitiful legacy for Irish television viewers.

The title alludes to a disparaging comment by the playwright Seán O ' Casey, who, in a letter to The Daily Telegraph in July 1941, referring to Wodehouse's radio broadcasts from Berlin, wrote that " If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English literature's performing flea ".

: " Would to heaven that this accursed engine arquebus had never been invented, I had not then received those wounds which I now languish under, neither had so many valiant men been slain for the most part by the most pitiful fellows and the greatest cowards ..."

As people gave in to acts of depravity, demons walked the streets like men, the seeds of Chaos and corruption long since having claimed the souls of the pitiful thousands who now called Mordheim their own.

Alex, who now believes that if he doesn't go to the games, the team will lose ( explaining the Tigers ' pitiful road trips ); finds himself the subject of ridicule by classmates, since he often sneaks out of school early to watch the Tigers play.

" GamesRadar commented that while Charmander seems pitiful due to its flame tail, which burn more brightly depending on his mood / health, it grows into the cool-looking Charizard.

An important inscription on the tomb of Ankhtifi, a nomarch during the early First Intermediate Period, describes the pitiful state of the country when famine stalked the land.

The most extreme example of this is the pitiful troll Brick in the novel Thud !, Ankh-Morpork born and bred, who took on the appearance of the man-made bricks of his city home.

He lands on shore bereft of all of his possessions, a pitiful and grumpy old man.

Diarist Samuel Pepys recorded several visits to the town, being moved on 30 April 1660 to describe it as " pitiful ".

', and I said, ' Well, I'm a songwriter ', and they both kind of looked around like ' pitiful, pitiful ', and so on to that I added, ' I wrote that song Pancho and Lefty.

We know how the little boy feels as he swings high up over one of those dusty, dreary, necessary playgrounds, and we share the backache of the old man on the park bench, the pitiful comfort of the hard-seat after his painful walk.

During a protest on 26 February 2006, Sulak called Thaksin a pitiful dog.

The latter portion of the novel is concerned with the rather pitiful, often lovely, and completely ineffectual affair they embark on.

This situation prevailed for the following 70 to 80 years but in the seventies, it fell into disrepute because in the streets, there was very little selling going on of the traditional kind, that is sheep and cattle, because the marts had taken over all this business, and it had degenerated into a pitiful gathering of people trying to maintain an old tradition.

Shyla Foxxx plays the domineering wife who succeeds in driving her husband, John Decker, to a pitiful life as a bum on the skids.

Maxie steals a giant lightning gun which he uses on " pitiful mortals " who dare to oppose him, although on a couple of occasions he seems to revert to normal.

IGN praised the game's rendered cutscenes, storyline, setting and background along with its overall consistency and expansion on the Might and Magic universe, noting these as particularly strong points, but was disappointed with in-game graphics and the reused engine's low modern capabilities, citing these as pitiful compared to other, more modern RPGs.

These pitiful conditions moved him to compose an elegy, famous because unique, on the decay of Athens, a sort of poetical and antiquarian apostrophe to fallen greatness.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

But for all their brilliant performing and the taut direction of Blake Edwards, they do not bring two pitiful characters to complete and overpowering life.

Even this pitiful dole, with no obligation to work, proved attractive, and all over France workmen threw up their jobs and streamed to Paris, where they swelled the ranks of the army under the red flag.

By " tweak him until his clothing and posture project the required image of pitiful dejectedness ", they exert their control over the silenced figure.

They were confined to their estates and paid a pitiful salary.

His results were not, however, in line with the clubs ambitions – Nantes coming 7th in 1988-9 and 1989 – 90 and gaining a pitiful 15th place in 1991, having no title to add to their record during these three seasons.

Sometimes they were mashed to pulp between millstones, while their mothers were compelled to witness the pitiful sight before they themselves were tortured to death.

Under his leadership as President, the ILLA spread rapidly across Munster and later Connacht, campaigning vigorously against the pitiful plight of small tenant farmers and rural labourers, claiming for their rights, demanding sweeping changes to the inadequate Irish Land Acts, duly acknowledged by government.

Using an archaic map given to her by the Emperor she sets off, joined by her twin brother, Bowman, and their brave but pitiful new friend, Mumpo, who has an unshakeable affection for Kestrel.