pities

The person one pities is a person one may like but does not truly respect

Archive 2005-03-06 Laban 2005

The person one pities is a person one may like but does not truly respect

Trevor Phillips and Education Laban 2005

God will take away that which their soul pities, that is, of which they say, What a pity is it that it should be cut off and destroyed!

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

So van Aert presumably "pities" Chen and most of the people in Taiwan -- about 90 percent of the 23 million people who live here who are Buddhists or Taoists -- because they do not know Jesus?

Dan Bloom's Great Letter, Atheism, and Taiwan Michael Turton 2005

EU president Van Rompuy 'pities' Farage for tirade

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

The star said he 'pities' Becks, who needs some 'help', after accusing the football star of crying like a girl and tinkering with a hair too much.

Home 2009

Standing by as Zuma escaped trial meant watching as a “power clique reduces our nation to one of those defective societies that the world pities,” he wrote.

Jacob’s Ladder 2009

For this bit of self-deprecation and modesty, Osteen pities the man: “His own thoughts and attitudes,” he writes, “were condemning him to mediocrity,” or what is known in the gospel as the “defeated life.”

Did Christianity Cause the Crash? 2009

When Socrates finally stood up to face his charges in front of his fellow citizens in a religious court in the Athenian agora, he articulated one of the great pities of human society.

Socrates ? a man for our times Bettany Hughes 2010

For this bit of self-deprecation and modesty, Osteen pities the man: “His own thoughts and attitudes,” he writes, “were condemning him to mediocrity,” or what is known in the gospel as the “defeated life.”

Did Christianity Cause the Crash? 2009