But I never pitied them; you took me someplace else.
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They pitied Earthlings for being able to see only three.
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I pitied the school of killifish the bird had targeted.
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She never pitied me and threw me back into normalcy.
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They looked at me as if I was to be pitied.
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Other times, she's visible in a bad way, taunted, objectified or pitied.
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But we are not primitives, and we are not to be pitied.
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I cried alone, until sleep pitied me enough to show itself at last.
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I never wanted to be pitied as, after all, this was my choice.
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They are pitied for their ignorance, and for their ignorance about their ignorance.
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But I don't feel sad, and I definitely don't need to be pitied.
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Bains on Tuesday said he originally pitied Rahami before identifying the suspected bomber.
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She emerges from it as a person more to be pitied than envied.
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Keiko can pretend to be in a relationship and so not be pitied.
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Mr. Khyber had pitied him and encouraged his friends to buy from him.
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Kozyra's work suggests that the female body should not be shamed or pitied.
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Eventually, one of my friends (who probably pitied me) gave me a Gmail invite.
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I had a boyfriend last year who would tell me that I pitied myself.
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Outside big cities, women who are unmarried into their late 30s are often pitied.
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Before "Shaft," black movie characters were most often to be pitied, jeered or sainted.
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He never pitied or condescended to his solitaries; instead, he loved and understood them.
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She pitied herself and cried long and hard, because this wasn't right — this wasn't fair.
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I pitied them, I possibly threw a prayer their way, and then I moved on.
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He cannot hate them, for they are dumb in their selfishness, and only to be pitied.
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Some might have pitied them, some might have hated them — most were probably disgusted by them.
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I felt hatred toward them but I also saw their young men were to be pitied.
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For all the betrayal and resentment that binds them, Magariel's characters feel neither typecast nor pitied.
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I wondered if people wondered if I want to get married again and if they pitied me.
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The Broncos went from feared to pitied, squandering a promising 3-1 start with eight consecutive defeats.
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Is there anything more awkward than being pitied for lacking exactly the thing you're intent on avoiding?
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He indicted the mundane; he dismantled houses; he eviscerated imperialism; he pitied the whale; he hunted missionaries.
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This perpetuates the harmful, fatphobic belief that weight gain is tantamount to weakness and should be pitied.
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Pity, on the other hand, connotes superiority and allows the pitier to maintain a distance from the pitied.
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I didn't blame Samantha as much—probably because I pitied her and the bleak trajectory of her life.
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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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People with disabilities are not just objects to be pitied, but people fighting, every day, to create just society.
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He was refused help and then serendipitously was pitied by an actual Afghan Taliban who offered him his phone.
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Is she a trapped wife to be pitied, or is she an accomplice in her husband's politics and policies?
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A mother who can't "let go" is a grasping, desperate creature, entirely to be pitied if not openly reviled.
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If these persons are to be pitied, by implication, members of risk groups who 'infected' them must be culpable.
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My family and friends who pitied me for being fat were off-balanced somehow by my extreme weight loss.
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But a 62-year-old white woman going to a nightclub would be treated like something to be pitied.
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In that world, a UBI would become a form of welfare, and its recipients would be pitied and derided.
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The day I propose to whichever woman who's pitied me the longest, I'll probably sneak off somewhere and cry.
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Everyone agrees, when they see the transcripts of his hapless calls, that he is more to be pitied than censured.
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Sometimes Min pitied her future daughter-in-law, whoever she was, and wished that the girl could have chosen more wisely.
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While some members of the climbing community celebrated his new feats, others who had once pitied him accused him of cheating.
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Yee's become an infamous figure back home — hated by some, mocked by others, admired by a few, and pitied by the rest.
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"If we have mercy on those who carried out this coup attempt, we will be the ones to be pitied," he said.
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For one charged moment, the well-worn rules governing domination and fear are flipped: Who is to be pitied and who judged?
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Eastern Man, a figure long patronized, pitied or just ignored in the West, is in the process of again reshaping German politics.
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I pitied my children, for when the air planes came to bomb my ricefields, they were afraid and afterwards would weep loudly.
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Tocqueville thought that was nonsense—and pitied his fellow blue-bloods who wasted their lives in a doomed attempt to restore aristocratic privilege.
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The steady flow of air felt downright decadent and I pitied all the passersby who weren't basking in the breezy experience with me.
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In the same breath that Carlyle asked to honor the honorable, she pitied the young women who are currently trying to find love.
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For the girls — mostly pretty smart, though also profoundly and willfully superficial — fat people are to be pitied, obviously, but empathized with, too.
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To the Trump team, it's the perfect opportunity to make Americans feel sorry for a president who has rarely pitied anyone but himself.
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I pitied her in that moment—the pairing of tights with sandals is one of the more elevated style techniques a person can perform.
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His parents had broken off ties with their relatives who lived on the Mainland, who in turn pitied the Islanders as uneducated, superstitious, and impoverished.
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Gundlach went on to say he pitied the Federal Reserve, which lowered interest rates three times last year in order to sustain the economic expansion.
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What Sunny does best is use its cleverness to find humor in shitty, anti-PC, asshole characters who are to be pitied and hated, not loved.
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I pitied my parents' generation of older Chinese people and ignored their warnings — until I ended up in jail myself, and suddenly felt I understood them.
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He was already an alcoholic, and then he became a cartoonist, producing scratchy images that blistered both those with disabilities and the people who pitied them.
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The fact that every human being needs to feel needed and valued and not just an entity to be pitied is something we've known since ancient times.
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I wanted young readers to think of disabled kids not as miserable people to be pitied, but as people living normal lives in spite of their challenges.
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Yet Wamariya is piercing about her alienation in America and her effort to combat the perception that she is an exotic figure, to be pitied or dismissed.
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But, there has been a backlash against it in recent years and many single women have had enough of being pitied and patronized – as Ikea learned this week.
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"Comic Relief should be helping to establish an image of African people as equals to be respected rather than helpless victims to be pitied," Lammy posted on Twitter.
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In May of 2013 Tooba was tweeting about how she pitied "poor atheist souls," but by the end of 2014 was justifying the slaughter of non-Muslim civilians.
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"[A survivor's] bisexuality is just another reason [people think] she should be blamed and offenders should be pitied as not being able to help themselves," Estrop points out.
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The admiration and gratitude of his co-workers fade quickly and the light that's "slowly roasting Carl's face" transforms him into a monster to be pitied, shunned, fired.
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Belize was a black gay man who was not the butt of a joke, or the reviled one, or the one to be to be pitied or killed.
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And while Jenkins himself remains a shadowy figure, in Powell's words "more to be pitied than blamed," he is given a wonderfully acerbic and baroque way with words.
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Its emotions — like the jealousy of James's blind best friend (Oliver Platt) — feel brutally honest, as does its understanding of the allure of being desired without being pitied.
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No matter the obstacles placed in front of her, of which there were many, she refused to be pitied and was determined to live a life that mattered.
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Both groups exist at the margins of Italian society, despised, pitied and ignored, but they experience that marginality, and their own uprootedness, in ways that reflect radically different histories.
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Our main character was the most iconic comic-book villain of all time and yet we pitied him, felt sorry for him, and, to a point, even rooted for him.
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Yet for all the pain they inflict on one another, for all the betrayal and resentment trapping them together, Magariel's characters — the male ones, anyway— never feel typecast or pitied.
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But Mahfouz, elected as a fellow to Britain's Royal Society of Literature last year, said her spirited characters were not to be pitied but lauded as women with an inner power.
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But Mahfouz, elected as a fellow to Britain's Royal Society of Literature last year, said her spirited characters were not to be pitied but lauded as women with an inner power.
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"I'm single and I like long bike rides," I finally declared, wondering if these strangers pitied me or if they saw my singlehood as the sign of something unpleasant and uncooperative.
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According to Alaina Leary, a disabled editor and writer in Boston living with autism and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, it's also the underlying message it sends —that people with disabilities should be pitied.
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"Wamariya is piercing about her alienation in America and her effort to combat the perception that she is an exotic figure, to be pitied or dismissed," Alexis Okeowo writes in her review.
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Speaking to a business forum in New Delhi, the strongman said he pitied Suu Kyi, who has been criticized in recent months over accusations her government is deliberately killing minority Rohingya Muslims.
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I was outfitted with thick glasses, plenty of sunscreen, and large print books to remind other kids in school I was different, to be avoided half of the time and pitied the rest.
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People see her as permanently tainted by trauma, to be pitied with a whispered "there but for the grace of God go I," but always kept at arm's length for fear of contamination.
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They all thought of her as a meek spinster to be pitied, which of course made her an ideal target for Lilith's plan to step into her place and influence the young half-witch.
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But it was also the year of Reefer Madness, the infamous propaganda film that depicted pot as a precursor to lunacy and murder; its users were crazed buffoons to be laughed at or pitied.
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There's a real empathy and pathos to everything that happens to Number Five on the show that's lost on the pages of the comics, where The Boy is more someone to be feared than pitied.
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"It's a matter of wanting to tell my story, because if you don't then things get distorted, and you want to tell your own story," Brown said, adding that she doesn't want to be pitied.
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This will not happen: the French academician who suggested that French be the union's sole legal language in 2007 (thanks to its supposedly unmatched precision) was surely pitied as much as he was laughed at.
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She recalled that during her years in regional theater, she had pitied older actresses "who weren't married, who didn't have children, who inevitably they had a cat or two in their little apartments," she said.
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The fact of that suffering, however, is not in doubt, and posterity has both pitied him for his exhausting mental fight and venerated the result; without the fighting, we believe, we would not have the art.
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An argument could be made, in the abstract, that sociopathy is a disability for which someone should be pitied, that sociopathic behavior is a symptom that should be explained rather than a vice someone can be held responsible for.
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The eight hour-long episodes provide welcome space for actors with the power to command complex and not always sympathetic roles: Ms Adams is faultless as Camille, forever teetering between being likeable and reviled, pitied and an object of envy and scorn.
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Alexa wants to be normal, and she lashes out when she feels that she's being pitied or given special treatment, leading to awkward situations with her overly protective mom (Tiffani Thiessen) and the math nerd she has a crush on (Jack Griffo).
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After being led into a dark antechamber and asked to remove shoes and socks (I pitied the woman wearing long laceup boots), we don raincoats and then move into another room, in the middle of which is a simulacrum of a cemetery.
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We pitied those earlier Americans unworldly enough to be at the mercy of unscrupulous barons of print and commerce; by the time we'd come along those quaint evils had been decanted into nothing more harmful than boring multiple-choice quizzes on sublimely scented mimeograph paper.
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People think of 'disability' and they think of someone who needs to be pitied, and so I felt like growing up I didn't want to be associated with that for a long time, until I could use the word 'disabled' to empower myself so that's what I'm doing now.
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Maybe in this calculation God should be written with a small "g" because a god whose image can be used to support one's every politically expedient position -- even if that position flouts one's stated religious principles -- isn't a god to be worshiped, but rather one to be pitied.
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Contemporary Western historians all too often see it simply as a victim of colonialism: a country to be pitied and ennobled, and with which greater powers had their way, rather than as a polity that has done what any other polity does: make the best of suboptimal situations.
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Instead of allowing us to engage in what amounts to opportunistic volunteerism in which people with disabilities are pitied and denied humanity in the pursuit of virtue signaling, he showed us a sustainable model of providing care to a marginalized group of people that the state continues to neglect.
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While the weaving of Smart's own story with those of other victims is often awkward, it's always absorbing, and along the way she provides valuable lessons about resilience, faith and the inherent power of not wanting to be pitied, even if you're the very definition of a victim.
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It happens to JJ DiMeo, who has cerebral palsy (as does Micah Fowler, the actor who plays him), during gym class, and he is quick to use his alternative-communication device to tell everyone that he is not interested in being condescended to or pitied in that way.
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Maybe Silver's next guest on the hot seat in his office should be Phil Jackson, the Knicks' team president, who, this season, has managed to insult James and others with his reference to James's "posse" and turned Anthony, still his best player, into a much-pitied martyr by disrespectfully sniping at him via the media, news and social.
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Smarsh's memoir Heartland is a poignant look at growing up in a town 30 miles from the nearest city (Wichita); learning the value and satisfaction of hard, blue-collar work, and then learning that the rest of the country sees that work as something to be pitied; and watching her young mother's frustration with living at the "dangerous crossroads of gender and poverty" and understanding that such a fate might be hers, too.
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Smarsh's memoir Heartland is a poignant look at growing up in a town 30 miles from the nearest city (Wichita); learning the value and satisfaction of hard, blue-collar work, and then learning that the rest of the country see that work as something to be pitied; and watching her young mother's frustration with living at the "dangerous crossroads of gender and poverty" and understanding that such a fate might be hers, too.
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Smarsh's memoir Heartland is a poignant look at growing up in a town 30 miles from the nearest city (Wichita); learning the value and satisfaction of hard, blue-collar work, and then learning that the rest of the country see that work as something to be pitied; watching her young mother's frustration with living at the "dangerous crossroads of gender and poverty" and understanding that such a fate might be hers, too.
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