The fact that he is on the verge of being ridiculous helps to make him more pitiable than frightening—and Mr Lowery contends that ghosts are fundamentally pitiable things.
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It's close to slapstick, and very funny, but also pitiable.
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So excuse us if we don't buy your pitiable pleas, Baelish.
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Her self-consciousness dissipated, suddenly confronted by a more pitiable being.
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Mr. Burdette's age might seem to make his barking especially pitiable.
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In the other trial, Adam Skelos emerged as a pitiable figure.
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Weinstein's life, like Cosby's, isn't the story of some tragic, pitiable downfall.
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No mother could be as infuriating and pitiable as Catherine O'Hara was.
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Maggie Smith is both frightening and pitiable as the bottled-up Lois.
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It was also a pitiable one, confirmation that Taylor had never been wanted.
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Just because it seems impossible now, it's not pitiable to believe in peace.
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He said his father was referring to the media as dirt — a pitiable defense.
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Still, none of this makes Cunanan comprehensible or, when all is said and done, pitiable.
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Part of it was that there was something pitiable about him, making him a natural babyface.
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But despite the pitiable lack of beef, beans, and discernible Thainess, my friend and I weren't deterred.
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Unable to refill his prescription for morphine, Franny, in the throes of withdrawal, becomes a desperate, pitiable wreck.
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She'd seem like a caricature if she weren't also so pitiable, holding herself to these same wretched standards.
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From the pantsuits to the infamous blue dress, the presidential pair is portrayed as both powerful and pitiable.
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He was a civilian again, and his private physician hoped the sea air would restore his pitiable health.
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If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable people of all.
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Between these two extremes she creates a character who is pitiable and yet too awesome to be pitied.
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At least for one day our pitiable earthly problems had to yield to the monumental collisions of higher powers.
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PG: Then let's turn to your work: In "12 Years" and "Eclipsed," you played characters that were truly pitiable.
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Anglr will remind you exactly when to head over and start pulling those pitiable creatures out of the water.
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Woods tried to sound optimistic in his reply, but it came out pitiable: "God, I hope so," Woods said.
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At once pitiable and respected, no organization's fortune is harder to pin down heading into the 2018-19 season.
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Empty food shelves are a pitiable sight anywhere, but a butter shortage shakes the foundation of France's cultural identity.
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Politely allow the assumption that I was in a pitiable state, satisfied by the fact that I knew better?
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Why not crawl, in your reduced and pitiable form, to the finish line and at least get points for stamina?
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Barack Obama's use of special operations forces to train a Syrian rebel army yielded a pitiable "four or five" fighters.
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For a chef this may sound pitiable, but happily, restaurant life is about work, about making the food, not consuming it.
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But here I felt like the intruder, a pitiable tech writer riding along with the people who actually know what they're doing.
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"Her work shows people who are pathetic, pitiable, as well as repulsive, but it does not arouse any compassionate feelings," Sontag thought.
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His name grew synonymous with a pitiable strain of rom-com that channeled the actor's charisma into a more approachable, dateable persona.
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Familiar start, respectable ending for yips-plagued Els Ernie Els began his round on Friday in painful, pitiable fashion all over again.
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The warehouses of companies like Lidl and Amazon combine hyper-regulated, mentally and physically exhausting work with ruthless metrics and pitiable pay.
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But pathos is pathos: The dying man, head hanging down as if he were staring into the earth, is a pitiable sight.
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"Creep" became the stuff of alt-radio legend, warmly suicidal and cynically tuned into early-nineties vogue, at once brutal and pitiable.
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The husband, whose name I've forgotten, was a comical weeping character in the telling, pitiable, and yet this implicit villain of systemic oppression.
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It's a striking image: Undocumented workers might look weak and pitiable but, in the end, they will bite you for trying to help.
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For those pitiable souls suffering from a lifelong aversion to seafood, I propose Italy's Adriatic coast as the place to get over it.
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I was walking along Regent's Canal recently and noticed that every last space – even the boats – had been converted into pitiable "live/work spaces".
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Putin's stab at a NATO-like extended deterrence is both laughable and pitiable, as Russia has no real friends over which to extend it.
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Body language — both his and that of the pitiable people around him — told the story of Donald Trump's foreign adventure better than anything else.
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Ailes comes off as a guy who sexually harasses people because he feels bad about his body, which just makes him a pitiable figure.
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Upholding those norms is what separates us from those pitiable countries in which the political enemies of those in power end up in jail.
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Simultaneously obsequious, pathetic, and pitiable, Phiri brings a physical comedy to the role that provides much-needed levity, especially given how grim the narrative turns.
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Yet even Nixon—drunk late at night and talking to paintings in the White House residence—seems relatively sane and pitiable compared with Donald Trump .
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NEW ALBANY, Ohio — There was a pitiable chance of success when Danny O'Connor knocked on Tami Halliday's door Thursday morning to ask for her vote.
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Jeffrey DeMunn is as funny as Charles — the man is a walking Viagra side effect — as the returning Ben Shenkman is quietly pitiable as Ira.
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Not just the pitiable state of this moment, but the centuries-long, hundred-car pileup that has always been being a black person in this country.
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If "the girl" is in some way a figure of Kavan's own vulnerability, she's also a cipher, barely glimpsed, and as exasperating as she is pitiable.
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They added that his affability was crucial to helping viewers navigate the opening minutes of "Living With Yourself," which focuses on the pitiable, rundown Old Miles.
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This pitiable Brutus-cum-Hamlet doesn't realize that he's one of the pieces, and more likely to be swept away than picked up by anyone else.
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She dethroned Taylor Swift over the weekend when her follower count climbed up to 69.2 million; Swift's follower count continues to lag at a pitiable 69.1 million.
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Admirable in a pitiable sort of way, half the cartridge features the square art and label, with the entire other half a black top of chip and connectors.
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Casting himself as a pitiable victim of hostile media coverage, he blew up at reporters whose questions pained him in ways unseen in the modern-day White House.
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To my eye, this "Black Book" and the informal but intimate black dump of coal have the tectonic rumblings of a Tibetan chant, at once plaintive and pitiable.
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He also appears weirdly intense about his profession, initiating a series of loony ghost-nabbing procedures interspersed with pitiable confidences about his pending divorce and weakness for cats.
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No matter how many furs I wear or how much wisdom I demonstrate, all of Winterfell, including my newly prophetic brother, seems to see me as some pitiable child.
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On the one side of the restaurant, there were all the people undesired by much of society, regarded as a pitiable burden, or a problem probably not worth solving.
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Both women are in a pitiable situation: Forced to go on a date with a semi-animated raisin in Paris, and forced to pretend they're invested in it all.
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But let's be honest: If President Trump doesn't like to read and can't come up with a book to recommend, that makes him pitiable to much of literary Twitter.
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Yes, the powers at be have miraculously graced the pitiable inhabitants of Earth with a Flamin' Hot Cheeto doppelganger of Harambe the gorilla (RIP)—and boy, is it glorious.
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Even if you root for Cleveland sports teams—who both overcame and blew 3-1 leads in the NBA Finals and World Series, respectively—it was still a pitiable stretch.
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That could eventually lead to chunks of ice breaking off — bad news for us pitiable humans, since this ice shelf keeps other ground-based ice from flowing into the sea.
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As a way to get Westerners to enlarge their sympathy for people often perceived as distant, pitiable victims, the book succeeded completely, and was made into a film in 2015.
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Another pitiable offensive performance illustrated again just how many holes exist on the Mets' current roster outside of their ace pitcher, making deGrom's future less than certain in Citi Field.
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Martin is an abstraction, the embodiment of an occult principle of cosmic vengeance, and Mr. Keoghan makes him appropriately menacing and also pitiable, since he's also a grieving, needy child.
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It's an ability the 26-year-old actor has honed over the course of his 10-year career, able to dart between characters who deliver both outlandish levity and pitiable despair.
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This swerving tone—from blithe to pitiable, humorous to harrowing—works well in the books, when we are glued to Patrick's side and treated to his acid tongue and exquisite descriptions.
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Already Congress waffles and tries to move on from Parkland, and our president offers absurd solutions and pitiable comments about what he would do in the event of a school shooting.
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Albee presents his characters as pitiable to varying degrees and for various reasons, and the empathy he lets the audience feel for George and, especially, Martha, has a whiff of condescension.
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In the incantatory, sing-song prose of an elementary-school book or a bedtime story, the first part introduces the nameless, abused "Child", with her pitiable "white, red, black and blue body".
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They're immersed in a world of conspiracies, in the dark shadows where no data can be trusted, nothing is what it seems and those who buy the party line are pitiable sheep.
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Queen Anne is not without pathos — she didn't choose this role, is in poor health, and grieves her 17 lost pregnancies — but it would be a mistake to see her merely as pitiable.
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Erdogan, who has positioned himself as a global champion for Muslim causes, said Arab nations' stance toward Palestinians was pitiable and countries that failed to speak out would be responsible for "grave results".
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His pitiable cuckold ends up with the most surprising and credible character arc, and even though he's forced to play along with much gnarly dialogue, he manages to break even in the end.
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We're not one psyche, one color, one culture, not all J. D. Vance's cousins, and certainly not without hope, but the rest of America seems keen to reduce us to a pitiable monoculture.
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The lame Claudius, regarded by many senators as "a pitiable dolt, the plaything of women and slaves," but beloved by at least some of the people, who thought he had their interests at heart.
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Does this make Emma a pitiable prototype for the passive female gull of mass culture, operating mindlessly under "false consciousness", or a feminist avant la lettre who subverts bourgeois morality and suffers the consequences?
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Joining their pitiable ranks is Simonsen himself as a young cop ("pig, rozzer, plod, fascist, scum, bastard") back in the 1960s, a "soldier in a war I didn't understand," alienated from his entire generation.
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If the dungeon equates the imprisoned to the monstrous, then pieces like howling dogs, Begscape and With Those We Love Alive ask us to inhabit the skin of the monstrous, the grotesque, the pitiable.
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He acts less like a man in free fall than like a guy who's got it all figured out, which has the effect of making him at once pitiable, infuriating and kind of mysterious.
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But to believe in the future as these photographers did — to have an artistic vocation greater than narcissistic individualism or ceaseless critique — appears more enviable than pitiable in a new century of downscaled dreams.
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His face was cradled in his hands, and he braced himself on his elbows—it was the same way my mother cried on the carpet in the mornings after a bad blackout, penitent, pitiable.
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It is representative of society's tendency to desexualize disabled people—to see them as weak or pitiable and therefore infantile and impotent, objects of sympathy and care but never of sexual interest or agency.
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More inspiring, too: Dory grows from being rather pitiable, an aquatic blue Bambi with neither parent to depend on, into a person (fish) who recaptures key memories with a combination of patience, doggedness and intuition.
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I'd seen the militiamen herding hundreds of women and children at gunpoint into the mountains with pitiable bundles of possessions, with many of their men and teenage sons left lying dead along streets and riverbanks.
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So as hard as it is, it might seem pitiable in a way that someone with such authority and courage in the theater could be timid and scared about his position in the United States.
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TOKYO - Japan's graying population is changing the character of its beloved manga comics, spawning a new genre in which the elderly aren't pitiable oldsters but protagonists making discoveries, finding friends and sometimes even having hot sex.
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We've gotten quite used to hardened warriors like Rick, Michonne, and Daryl, psychopaths like the Termites, Wolves, and Saviors, and pitiable red-shirt wimps like Hilltop and most of the Alexandrians over the past two seasons.
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When I attempt (and fail) to suppress the grimace, they feel even worse, thinking they sense how brave and honorably pitiable I am, and how much it must really hurt, since I cannot cover it up.
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Chamberlain emerges as a tragic, pitiable politician in this account — keen to connect with, in his words, "the human side of dictators," and yet too limited in his understanding of what that "human side" might entail.
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He is, by the end, rendered nearly pitiable: a deluded figure with fantasies of grandeur and little substance beneath the grandiose clichés — a grown man, desperately play-acting at being the tragic hero he saw in the movies.
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When I say "pitiable," I'm thinking about the pope, of course, and the first lady, naturally, but especially Dusko Markovic, the prime minister of Montenegro, who was the visibly stunned victim of the shove heard round the world.
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And it's not our job to take this piece of pitiable P.R. bait, and heap a dose of forgiveness and understanding onto the people now tasked with solving the problems they themselves created, just because they're sad about it, too.
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In the economic boom that followed, kawaii, defined as something both lovable and pitiable — which is to say, something lovable because it is naïve to forces larger than itself — provided both solace and consumerist distraction from dashed hopes for change.
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Instead, the one named Crozier (Jared Harris) will go on to be that man waiting over the hole in the ice, living on but no longer as himself, while the one named Fitzjames (Tobias Menzies) will die a sad, pitiable death.
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Since his introduction in the show as a ward of the Starks — not exactly a prisoner, but certainly not there of his own free will — we've watched him transform from a horny ne'er-do-well to a pitiable shell of a person.
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The arc of his life vindicated his moral critics, conservative and feminist: What began with talk of jazz and Picasso and other signifiers of good taste ended in a sleazy decrepitude that would have been pitiable if it wasn't still so exploitative.
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Now that Lee Russell (Walton Goggins) has ascended to the job of principal and (still) Vice Principal Neal Gamby (McBride) can sit back and make fart noises during staff meetings, Russell's naked, craven need for acceptance becomes equal parts pitiable and horrifying.
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Although Barbossa is written as inconsistently as anyone else, Rush has such a strong grasp on this wily character that he's the only one that feels like a real person that we might be able to love or hate or find funny or annoying or pitiable.
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On Wednesday, Netflix announced that Carell is starring in Daniels's new series, Space Force, which will reportedly be a fictionalized story about the poor, pitiable government workers tasked with turning Trump's bizarre desire for a "sixth branch of the military" into a reality, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference," it says, suggesting that the difference is objective — that there's a discernible, even clear line between reasonable hope and pitiable delusion, between premature and mature surrender.
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A depraved Roman emperor, a brilliantly outrageous homosexual, an eccentric junkie convict, a tortured student murderer, a pitiable sideshow freak, an astronaut who has his chest ripped open from the inside by an alien monster… Hardly everyday folk, but 40-year-old British actor John Hurt—who has portrayed them all—is no mundane talent.
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He and Ghaul perform a one-set play about the nature of heroism and self-worth, and it ends up making Ghaul seem both more monstrous and more pitiable by the end (and if this turns out to be the last we see of the Speaker, he at least got a great send-off line).
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" The piece argued that homosexuality, "is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life," adding that "it deserves no encouragement, no glamorization, no rationalization, no fake status as minority martyrdom, no sophistry about simple differences in taste — and, above all, no pretense that it is anything but a pernicious sickness.
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CYRANO Tyrion Lannister was at times a sympathetic character on "Game of Thrones," but the actor Peter Dinklage's next job will make him entirely pitiable: Mr. Dinklage will play Cyrano, who woos the woman he loves on another's behalf because he believes himself to be unlovable, in this adaptation of the 1897 Edmond Rostand play.
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When men turn some women into sexual objects, the women who are inside that box are one-dimensional, while those outside of it become disposable; the ones who refuse to be disposed of, who continue to insist on being seen and heard, are inconvenient and pitiable at best, deceitful shrews and crazy harpies at worst.
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The Bushes are half that conspiratorial picture, fronts for a Republican Party establishment and whose sum total of accomplishments, dating back nearly 30 years, are two failed presidencies, the sweeping loss of manufacturing jobs, and a pair of pitiable Middle Eastern military adventures – the second one achieving nothing but dead American kids and Junior's re-election.
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But where Ms. Madigan's Jesus-loving Halie in New York seemed confined by the hectoring contours of the role, her performance is now considerably more shaded; the actress calls to mind no less a pitiable figure than Eugene O'Neill's Mary Tyrone, as this delusional matriarch ascends the stairs of Derek McLane's home-turned-battleground of a set.
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But "Chambre Noire" spends most of its time with two adult versions of Valerie, both also puppets (designed by Ms. Aspeli, Pascale Blaison and Polina Borisova): one angry, outrageous and amusingly self-aware in late-1960s New York; the other skinny, grimy and pitiable in 1988 San Francisco, hallucinating alone in a cheap hotel room and nearing death at 52.
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To see such a bright light brought low by infirmity is always hard, but this, or any other of the later videos of him at signings and conventions watch some of the later videos of him at signings and conventions: What comes across strongest is never that Heenan was pitiable; it's that all of the wrestlers would come up to him awash in reverence.
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The author seems to know his people inside and out, whether he writes of a boy arguing the Virgin Birth with an exasperated rabbi, ("The Conversion of the Jews"), or, in "Eli, the Fanatic," of a young Jewish lawyer trying to explain suburban mores to the leader of a rabbinical orphanage, or, in "Epstein," of the ludicrous yet pitiable aftermath of an aging man's search for love.
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Or I could tell you about the singular, oppressive narrative the media trots out when talking about Haiti, the one about an island mired in poverty and misery, the one about AIDS, the one about a country plagued by natural and man-made disasters, because these are the stories people want to hear, the stories that make Haiti into a pitiable spectacle instead of the proud, complicated country it is.
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Raven was inspired to create the giant image in 2015 when he saw Trump campaigning on television — roughly the left third of the 300-pound painting is devoted to a giant neck-up rendering of the then-presidential candidate, with the rest depicting a bald eagle flying through space with a giant American flag in its talons and our pitiable blue planet in the background, with no idea what it had in store.
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Third, because the culture's dominant message about sex is still essentially Hefnerian, despite certain revisions attempted by feminists since the heyday of the Playboy philosophy — a message that frequency and variety in sexual experience is as close to a summum bonum as the human condition has to offer, that the greatest possible diversity in sexual desires and tastes and identities should be not only accepted but cultivated, and that virginity and celibacy are at best strange and at worst pitiable states.
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