pitifulness

He sees through them, and all that he sees is their frailty, their meagreness, their sordidness, their pitifulness.

Chapter 2 2010

And PLEASE to whomever excused her pitifulness to her age and compared her to Miley Cirus.

Twilight Lexicon » Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner Presenting at the Oscars 2010

Wife, children, friends—in the clear white light of his logic they are exposed as frauds and shams… he sees their frailty, their meagerness, their sordidness, their pitifulness… And he knows his one freedom: he may anticipate the day of his death… suicide, quick or slow, a sudden spill or a gradual oozing away through the years, is the price John Barleycorn exacts.7

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

Ngai notes, "The formal attributes associated with cuteness — smallness, compactness, softness, simplicity, and pliancy — call forth specific affects: helplessness, pitifulness, and even despondency" Ngai 816.

Are we buying the gurlesque? Lemon Hound 2009

Sorry to take pleasure from your pitifulness, Jean Paul.

And the winners are... Michael May 2009

In Washington, where the assassin's weapon is usually a well-placed leak, Rumsfeld last week was left explaining, with uncharacteristic pitifulness, that he had not seen the actual pictures that appalled the world until eight days after the images first appeared on CBS's "60 Minutes II."

No Good Defense 2008

The pitifulness of this passage is sufficiently obvious.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The list of possible excuses NOT to speak out is endless, limited only by the pitifulness of the person making the list, but you get the idea.

ATTENTION: Defeatists, Cowards and other Whiny Losers 2007

The senses may become terrified by plunging among them as they are, but there is a pitifulness even in their glory.

Two on a Tower 2006

She wrapped her pitifulness around herself like a blanket and disappeared inside.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004