About that butler: Was I alone in pitying poor vampiric Barrow?
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"The word 'victim' is proscribed," she writes, deemed too self-pitying.
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Very few were pitying themselves; some were angry, most were not.
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In contrast to Blasey, Kavanaugh was all snide, self-pitying fury.
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PARSONS I don't like parts where people are self-pitying old.
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Later, she adopted a somewhat pitying tone during an appearance before reporters.
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"simpering, self-pitying, and spoiled" yet on the next page, charming and
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That was the sort of self-pitying, self-aggrandizing wretches we were.
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And she herself is the best answer to his self-pitying rationalizations.
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Pitying single black mothers to appeal to white women in the burbs.
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Clinton took the stage, Ms. Wasserman Schultz beamed, looking anything but self-pitying.
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Other times, he was by turns sullen or combative, self-pitying or defiant.
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My self-pitying turned to self-loathing, and then a dull, exhausted quiet.
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The company has apparently struck relevancy online by playing into a self-pitying narrative.
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Avoid the pitying look of the Deliveroo guy and still get your pepperoni fix.
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You can't help pitying that suffering soul and — shame on you — laughing at him.
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At home, we see Nan through Martin's eyes, equal parts pitying and fiercely loving.
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He is a charming guy, to be sure, but also smug and self-pitying.
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Someone who, with a kiss, can snap me out of my self-pitying reverie.
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Those to friends are by turns crude, sublime, mocking, sincere, self-pitying and proud.
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But they can just as often land as maudlin, self-pitying, or disastrously misaimed.
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And he is agitated about that, judging by his fandango of self-pitying tweets.
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It's just guilty, occasionally, of becoming a little too self-pitying, if never boring.
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On Saturday, the president was left alternately defiant and angry, self-pitying and frustrated.
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At some self-pitying moments, he tosses in just a splash of Richard Nixon.
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I got the occasional pitying, "So is your life over now or what?" look.
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Afterward, pundits were already pitying those who had to follow her on the Philadelphia stage.
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Are your friends really pitying you, or do you just assume that they must be?
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Kavanaugh was angry, tearful and self-pitying and highly partisan and combative with Democratic senators.
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What could potentially be maudlin or self-pitying is rescued by Gagner's self-deprecating humor.
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In a key scene, they challenge the self-pitying Vanya, as if conducting an intervention.
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I stomped the girls to school with a pathetically self-pitying case of eclipse FOMO.
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I asked him which pastime was more lucrative and he gave me a pitying look.
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Queen Anne (Colman) is neurotic, self-pitying and in failing health, yet is wildly spirited.
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Examining the destruction at a slight remove, Hamid discourages readers from pitying the city's residents.
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My social media feeds buzzed with people pitying friends with less progressive upbringings or family members.
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Instead of pitying herself or revelling in martyrdom, Mary Jane handles her duties with chipper competence.
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Then, a few weeks later, in a self-pitying, unpublished statement, he said he was suicidal.
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A hair-trigger sensitivity to slights made him self-pitying and prone to a corrosive paranoia.
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Solidarity isn't pitying or patronizing, nor is it a reason to feel smug about one's politics.
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The Losers Club is blisteringly aware, and almost pitying, the foibles of their less-noble adult counterparts.
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We go from trusting one of the film's fascinating ladies, to pitying another, to judging a third.
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He exploits the emotions dredged up by his rhetoric, manipulating a confused and self-pitying white public.
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As I was leaving, a colleague gasped, pitying my poor heels and ankles, which would surely freeze.
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When television focuses on overweight women, there seems to be a more pitying approach to how they're portrayed.
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To Helen Solloway, her ex-husband, Noah, is maddeningly impulsive and self-pitying but also patient and sweet.
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I was forced to think about myself and my relationship in a way that wasn't solely self-pitying.
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" On the same day, the paper ran a column titled "The self-pitying 'woke' generation needed a war.
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My body's locked in the pitying gaze of strangers, family, in the moment he froze our fates together.
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The way they translate him (or don't) can betray a translator's attitude towards him: elitist, pitying, or outright disapproving.
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Instead, he had a self-pitying follow-up text after discovering that the exchange had gone viral on Twitter.
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Plemons makes a self-pitying writer relatable From there, the story rewinds to New Year's Eve a year prior.
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In the meantime, Ms. Mendelsohn cuts back and forth between story lines concerning spoiled family members' self-pitying woes.
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What "The Hunt" expresses — as distinct from what it depicts — isn't vengeful intolerance or self-pitying resentment, but frustration.
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He remembered looking down from his office on the 32nd floor of a Frankfurt skyscraper and pitying the pedestrians.
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Lois Smith, Estelle Parsons and Vinie Burrows on age, agility, perseverance and steering clear of "self-pitying old" roles.
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Anyone can read "Mein Kampf" who has the stomach for the maunderings of a self-pitying, failed Austrian watercolorist.
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It's a show that doesn't turn victims into a pitying subplot, but instead revamps them into strong, empowering survivors.
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Guston might have pulled his punches: instead, he depicts Nixon dragging his monstrous swollen leg, shedding huge, self-pitying tears.
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Nor does grief for indigenous victims prevent him from pitying Spanish foot soldiers, their lives wasted on an infamous crime.
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Still, when I'm feeling uninspired or self-pitying or numb or dumb or confused, I pick up my old habit.
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He gives a speech about not pitying Daley because he threw his son into an airlock, and kickstarts the engine.
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Her stable of characters also included Fernand, an opportunistic and self-pitying orphan, and Robin les Foies, a lazy detective.
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This Australian comedy blends emotional sob sessions with witty one-liners, leaving you pitying and laughing at the new parents.
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Actually, he says, it's this group of men who are the deluded ones, and calls their philosophizing self-pitying nonsense.
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He is also, according to a biography by Tom Bower, obsessive, mean-minded, self-pitying and spendthrift (with public money).
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Instead of pitying or pushing them out, let's help them through their adversities and launch them on a path to success.
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As the week progresses, I begin to feel holier-than-thou, pitying the chemical-laden pits of the peasants around me.
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Comedian Louis CK's apology, while acknowledging that the accusations made are true, is still a bloated, self-aggrandizing, self-pitying missive.
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"All she wanted was a pumpkin," said my line friend to his boyfriend, and they both gave me a pitying look.
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Instead, the story coming out of the hearings was Comey's self-pitying defense of his unprecedented role in the 2016 election.
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And—I remember this very clearly—Anthony looked over, with this pitying expression, and said I was thinking way too small.
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There's still a certain slickness in how he presents his story, and some will find his serious interludes too self-pitying.
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" The editorial board wrote that the country has been accustomed to "the regular eruption of his inane, self-pitying, aggressive tweets.
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They know their actions, and infantilizing and pitying them to avoid addressing their genuinely problematic actions is part of the problem.
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Once or twice, when he'd offer them one of the two tablets he constantly carried, they'd give him pitying looks that stung.
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Egged on by self-pitying plinks and moans on the soundtrack, the character soon sinks completely into a soggy swamp of platitudes.
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He is aggressively self-pitying throughout his essay, airing any number of grievances about the injustice of how he has been misunderstood.
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Sherri W. MorrLos Angeles To the Editor: Kim Brooks misses the point about good parenting completely in her sadly self-pitying piece.
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Brittany Kaiser came out as a whistle-blower, too, a week after Wylie did; her book, "Targeted," is aggrieved and self-pitying.
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Donald Trump's anonymous whistleblower used the op-ed pages of the New York Times — pushing the president into a self-pitying rage.
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Instead of pitying him or using the opportunity of Jeremy's vulnerability as an excuse to be mean, Silverman instead chose to embrace kindness.
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Now, almost overnight, they (or we, to cast off my thin disguise) seem to have become a bunch of hysterical, self-pitying paranoiacs.
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Oscar is exactly as smart and self-pitying as he should be, sympathetically real though he embodies the stereotype of a philosophy professor.
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Janelle had never seen a face so utterly joyless and in her anger, she felt also a pitying contempt and a contemptuous pity.
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But the overall mood of this film, which is more downbeat than some might expect, is anxious, combative and at times self-pitying.
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With those releases and this one, he has been working a different persona: bummed-out, apathetic, confused, self-pitying, unromantic yet still needy.
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This whole incident has left netizens feeling torn over pitying Cirk and wondering why he even bothered to wait and neglected his own health.
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Try not to see the different phases of the artist's career as a competition, bestowing gold on the winner, while pitying others as bronze.
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After a supremely ill-fated midterm campaign in 1866, in which Johnson brayed before crowds like a self-pitying martyr, Republicans won landslide victories.
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Johnson was erratic, racist, operatically self-pitying, and blamed every failure of his administration on enemies he believed to be trying to destroy him.
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He responded that all fraud was bad and pivoted into his self-pitying, delusional lament about an epidemic of illegal voting by undocumented immigrants.
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Retrospection involved recategorizing things that happened to me and reevaluating past actions and decisions, which led me to feel ashamed, slighted, or self-pitying.
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I'd go home, drink my flatmates leftover spirits, read angsty, badly translated poetry and stare stupidly out at the rain, nursing pathetic self-pitying thoughts.
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Self-pitying or smug, jaunty or crestfallen, callous or contrite, the movie's fitful tone is fully yoked to Joaquin Phoenix's sodden-to-sober lead performance.
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Alcohol did not make John a charismatic raconteur; it made him a lonely, self-pitying sad sack estranged from his wife and two grown children.
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And I think what most people look at all this and need self-pitying winging from the media and think what a bunch of sanctimonious idiots.
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It's a risky device, employing as first-person narrator an amnesiac narcissist, a narcissist moreover who isn't even an outsize baddie but merely indifferent, self-pitying.
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You can understand why his friends grow a tad weary listening to his very long and increasingly self-pitying accounts of erotic obsessions and misfired dates.
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Because it's the Super Bowl and competition is the order of the day, we'll be breaking things down by crowning some winners and pitying some losers.
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"The Colour in Anything" grows self-pitying, almost maudlin, in ways Mr. Blake has managed to avoid in the past simply by using more elusive lyrical metaphors.
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But the hyperbolic self-pitying tone of the tweet instantly highlighted the problem of viewing economic news only from the perspective of bosses, as opposed to workers.
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Consider the contradictory strands of his life and career that are coinciding for him, and you may find yourself envying, pitying and disliking him all at once.
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For this, the book considers her with a kind of pitying condescension: The poor dear, she means so well; it's such a shame she doesn't know better.
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" At times, he seemed slightly pitying of British officials who are investigating data-mining, saying they did not have enough resources and lacked a "robust technical background.
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The placement and rearrangement of bodies focuses the drama and heightens the character of the chorus, whose members grow from laughing at the Madwoman to pitying her.
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While the female protagonists in Barbara Loden's Wanda and Susan Seidelman's Smithereens may be lost — and legitimately poor — the one thing they are not is self-pitying.
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In fact, she is vivid in my memory, alive in my mind and my heart: clever, stylish, beautiful, never self-pitying, full of irreverence and wit and life.
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Was I imagining the pitying glances from a few of the diners who seemed to notice that no father had joined us by the end of our meal?
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Grace is resentful and self-pitying in this stretch, and, while Bening's performance keeps the drama from ever becoming maudlin, Nicholson's dialogue never strays far from bland platitudes.
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Barbara Sukowa is unsurprisingly great as Friderike, Zweig's ex-wife and conscience, trying to raise an increasingly self-pitying Zweig to recognize and act on his own compassion.
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" Blink-182 fans surely recognized the words: this was a cover of "Please Take Me Home," a gloriously self-pitying song from "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.
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At any point in this poem, he could have gotten bogged down (or should I say wallowed) some self-serving, self-pitying, self-aggrandizing memory, but he didn't.
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Still, there's something particularly maddening about hearing the self-pitying cries of powerful men ringing in your ears when considering the very pathetic circumstances of a real witchcraft trial.
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In some ways, "Marriage Story" is harder on Charlie than on Nicole, underlining his self-absorbed, self-pitying tendencies, but he also occupies the film's sympathetic center of gravity.
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But its imagining of Morrissey as a self-pitying narcissist, a curiously passive intellectual who can't get out of his own way, soaks the movie in a wearying inertia.
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I had put finding love on a pedestal in my teenage years, and as such, I had been so busy pitying the matriarchs' plight that I ignored their power.
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"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (1965) Dylan has a lot of fantastic "kiss-off" songs, but they usually skew into one emotional vector — self-righteous, self-pitying, generally scabrous.
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Music can do a lot of things, but it turns out that helping a hungover self-pitying man fall asleep in the office he works in isn't one of them.
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Nationalism, self-pitying and aggressive, seeks to change the present in the name of an illusory past in order to create a future vague in all respects except its glory.
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But even if it was all true, the filmmakers' strange, almost pitying portrayal of the woman and her family, which included two mentally handicapped sons, was at least a little exploitative.
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I'm happy to report, though, that Noah remained essentially unchanged — quiet and perhaps a bit chastened, but still self-absorbed and self-pitying and largely oblivious to the feelings of others.
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Yes, a divorce or a parent with Alzheimer's disease is traumatic but it's also fairly commonplace, and in trying to milk these moments, Ms. Piper can seem self-pitying rather than insightful.
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He had no doubt the guy would send him his stuff, and he had no doubt it would be magisterially self-pitying (and not in the good, Robert Lowell kind of way).
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And he's both super disdainful of the lawyers who are deposing him, he's incredibly angry that he has to be sat down in this room and answer questions, and he's also self-pitying.
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The hair is wrong but the air is right — self-righteous, self-pitying and suffused with anger that anyone would peddle a version of events less heroic than the one that he prefers.
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There are clear stylistic differences between Trump, who tends to call anyone who disagrees with him stupid, weak, or disgusting, and Cruz, who, with a pitying smile, questions dissenters' motives, decency, and patriotism.
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And by the grace of a pitying higher power, within 24 hours, I was back on Planet Functional, setting the table and mashing taters with all the fervor and determination of a whirling dervish.
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Taneja's very busy book, in contrast, leaves little room for the reader to experience the strange, shifting identifications the original play makes possible, the way we can turn from pitying Lear to loathing him.
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Cocteau's surrealism, by turns sprightly and lightly self-pitying, generates high spirits in the opera, as when jaunty music enlivens the scene of cafe-life bohemia that opens this adaptation of the Orpheus myth.
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When I called my best friend, who'd introduced us, she used a pitying, careful tone that let me know she'd known what was about to happen, and that was almost worse than the breakup itself.
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Part of Baskets' appeal is its very specific feel, which combines Chip's fantasies of Parisian glamour and self-pitying cigarette breaks in his mother's coral-hued bathroom with Bakersfield's rickety rodeo and numerous strip malls.
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The impression he gave in his trial, and in multiple tabloid exposes afterwards, was that of a self-pitying former pro who had inadvertently swapped icon status for that of a petty middle-aged man.
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It's also a toxic rallying cry for self-pitying incels, and a hyper-familiar origin story so indebted to "Taxi Driver" and "The King of Comedy" that Martin Scorsese probably deserves an executive producer credit.
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I spent my life constantly feeling sorry for my close friends, often pitying them for being forced to endure the company of my body just so they could hang out with the rest of me.
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For those of us who are already sick of Greg's self-pitying pontification, and are disappointed to see him start to edge out Ramon as the show's most prominent character, it's a rough story to endure.
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His remarks echoed an essay the mayor posted online on Friday, sounding a tone that, as he appears to be cruising toward a likely re-election without strong opponents, is remarkably both self-aggrandizing and self-pitying.
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That leaves us with the eldest son, Sandler's Danny, a failed, self-pitying artist with a bum leg whose only accomplishment has been raising his wildly talented daughter Eliza (Grace Van Patten), a film student at Bard.
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And because the basic emotional core of their relationship is based on friendship rather than betrayal, the audience can relax and sink into the fun of the story without getting distracted by pitying the character who's being fooled.
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His John, by turns petty, aggressive, and self-pitying, looms a head above Radcliffe's Jim, pouring whiskey and slinging insults, plus the occasional fist, as the younger man stands his ground, piously pelting him with inaccuracy after inaccuracy.
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When we meet him, he's a deflated, self-pitying dope who's been trying to muscle his way into power via the vegetable business, offering the city's "Cauliflower Trust" his protection in exchange for a fee, to no avail.
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Marie, a narrowly conceived character nevertheless played well by Bérénice Bejo, is uptight and withholding; Boris, by turns warmly bearish and broadly truculent as played by Cédric Kahn, is controlling and manipulative, not to mention aggressively self-pitying.
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Shay's neighbor Madame Rose and the staff at the Red House all have a gentle air of pitying the murderer as a man cursed by madness, and placidly seem to accept the idea that justice has been served.
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In Manila in the Claws of Lights, righteous Julio is shocked by his gay friend turning tricks, but when Julio himself wants to earn hard cash, his gay clients treat his knee-jerk aversion towards them with pitying tenderness.
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The fact that said hook sarcastically tears apart both Crutchfield's self-pitying protagonist and her stubborn, dickish ex also makes things cut deeper, but then again, power pop has always been about deceptive simplicity in both music and lyrics.
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It is one of the most self-pitying things you'll read and might has well come along with a Movie Guy voiceover telling you From the guys who brought you The War on Football, comes The War on Cops.
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But even when the account is disingenuous and self-pitying, I'm interested in what the accused have to say for themselves, including those I think are guilty and despicable and who haven't learned the proper lessons from their crimes.
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This was a man whose father might have been born rich, yes, but also with severely deformed legs that later required amputation, and in that unstinting, un-pitying quest to live with his disability, he became his son's great inspiration.
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In a cloyingly self-pitying article for Politico Magazine excerpted from her upcoming book, she reveals the extent to which the DNC willingly surrendered control of the organization to Hillary Clinton's campaign well before Clinton became the party's presidential nominee.
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Because this is, after all, a night all about winning, we'll be breaking the night down by handing out golden gramophones to the winners, and pitying the utter losers: Adele cried no fewer than three times at the Grammys on Sunday.
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A person I talked to on the streets of Berlin on Wednesday had another thought about the connection between football and politics: She was worried that the team's defeat would play into the far right's self-pitying, us-versus-them worldview.
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Whatever white supremacy was and is — the murderousness of the K.K.K., the centuries-old institutional bias toward white people, the self-pitying narcissism of the so-called alt-right — it's older than what happened in Charlottesville, older than this presidency.
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"I had been harboring a secret, megalomaniacal dream — that I was going to get him to apologize," Stern writes, never explaining how she planned to "get him" to do anything while steadfastly indulging his self-pitying monologues and trumped-up delusions.
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But I hate attention, which is why, despite how romantic—and, to a degree, socially acceptable—the act of public crying has become in recent years, I've also made great efforts to keep my cries private, away from the pitying stares of strangers.
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However, it might also mean that if I see connections between Depp's alleged domestic abuse and the way that Edward Scissorhands asks me to pity Edward when he hurts his girlfriend, rather than pitying the bleeding girlfriend herself, I don't disregard those connections.
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When he walks by me rummaging in the medicine cabinet he gives me the same kind of pitying look that Blake did near the end, even though I was only looking for a bandaid because I cut my thumb helping Maggi with supper.
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By internalizing these debates, Mr. Barnes avoids the polarized either-or, black-or-white characterizations of Shostakovich as noble dissident or spineless government patsy, but he also traps us inside the composer's mind, where we soon tire of the narcissistic musings and self-pitying rationalizations.
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Where Em was tonally ill-equipped to take on Trump and his supporters last fall, on Kamikaze he seems to misunderstand the beast he's up against if he wants to confront his detractors, and his complaints are made to seem shrill and self-pitying.
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There can be a paralyzing sense of shame about doing activities alone that we've been told by society should be done with others — a shame that results from the assumption that anybody who sees you doing these things alone is judging or pitying you.
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In an alternately lugubrious, self-pitying and sarcastic open letter, Meyer accused the city of "attempting to rid the Bauhaus, so heavily infected by me, of the spirit of Marxism": Morality, propriety, manners, and order are now to return once more hand in hand with the Muses.
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David Ehrlich of Indiewire called it "a toxic rallying cry for self-pitying incels," invoking the term for involuntarily celibate young men that jumped from the saddest corners of the internet to popular parlance in 2014, when a self-described incel killed six people in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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When they at last confront Weinstein, in a Times conference room and later on speakerphone, he's the mouse that roared, the Great and Powerful Oz turned puny humbug, swerving from incoherent rants to self-pitying whimpers ("I'm already dead") to sycophantic claims of just being one of them.
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" Michiko Kakutani wrote in a New York Times review of "Prozac Nation" that "such self-pitying passages make the reader want to shake the author, and remind her that there are far worse fates than growing up during the 70's in New York and going to Harvard.
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So phrases like, I can't really do that right now, but let's do X again, or even, I wish I could keep going right now, because this was feeling amazing, but I need to take a break, have helped me communicate my needs without accidentally being wounding or self-pitying.
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When Black took the stage, she gave a few hurried explanations and disclaimers before launching into "Celebrity Death Match," which she described as an edited diary entry wherein all the names of real people are replaced with celebrities' names and all the most indulgently self-pitying bits are done away with.
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Only, where Erin flashed her teeth to get what she wants, her Heidi rarely smiles — neither in the present-tense narrative, when she's waiting tables in a dingy restaurant called Fat Morgan's, nor in the flashbacks where we see her running the Homecoming program with an almost pitying sense of self-seriousness.
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Tasha Robinson, film/TV editor: I've consistently been on the more positive end of the Joker spectrum compared to a lot of other film critics, but I still think it's a badly flawed movie: a self-pitying fantasy about a truly awful world that picks on one poor victim until he rightly snaps.
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When he finally does look at us, it's to deliver a self-pitying lecture about how he saved the country and maybe even the world, even as the rest of the movie has hammered home that he damned it instead, even if he'll be dead long before the consequences come home to roost.
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It has found its greatest purchase among a certain type of basement-dwelling incel edgelord, to whom it offers both an explanation for self-pitying personal circumstance and a set of convenient antagonists (roughly, the blame falls on race-betraying, sexually empowered women; immigrants; and the Jews said to control the whole system).
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Rationality does not, however, explain why a money manager like Leon Cooperman — who just two years ago settled a suit over insider trading for $5 million, although without admitting wrongdoing — would circulate an embarrassing, self-pitying open letter denouncing Warren for her failure to appreciate all the wonderful things billionaires like him do for society.
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White House Memo WASHINGTON — President Trump's mood went from feisty to self-pitying to deflated on Wednesday as he fended off questions about a July phone call in which he urged the president of Ukraine to work with Attorney General William P. Barr on potential corruption investigations connected to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a Democratic rival.
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" For instance, as a college student, she doesn't help the young woman passed out on a bathroom floor; elsewhere, she doesn't help an abused dog; she doesn't intervene when a child is being beaten; she cheats on her husband; she acts like a pouty rock star, a self-pitying "captive to my celebrity in need of velvet ropes and special treatment.
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In a crucial scene between Qiao and Bin, set in a gloomy hotel room on a rainy night and largely played out in a single, expertly-choreographed shot, Jia focuses intently on gestures, expressions, and moments of stillness: a pair of eyes darting away from a pitying gaze; the nervous lighting of a cigarette; a back quivering with long-suppressed sobs.
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I don't have full answers, but intuit that there is a self-pitying quality to this, as if the artist were saying that this is the true nature of the interaction with the art object for both maker and viewer: the artist makes something that is untouchable, and the object teases the viewer with its proximity, but never discloses its secrets.
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" And that's the perverse beauty of a conspiracy theory: The more that people denounce it as crazy, the more it stiffens the conviction of its adherents that they're correct ("We must be, because no one else believes it, and you sheeple are all brainwashed, ergo") to the point where they end up pitying you: "If only you could see the signs: They're everywhere!
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There's no denying that one aggressively vocal wing of the Rick and Morty fan-base — the anarchic "caring is for suckers and SJWs" online commenters — has stained this show to some extent, because no matter how much co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Rolland push back against them, one of the pillars of their comedy remains a kind of self-pitying nihilism, framed as worldly enlightenment.
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There are a few regulars—latter-day patrons of Harry's Bar in Eugene O'Neill's " The Iceman Cometh ," except that McDonagh's guys, including Arthur (John Horton), the oldest and deafest of the lot, Charlie (Billy Carter), and Bill (Richard Hollis, turning in a very smart characterization of a self-pitying alcoholic), aren't nearly as deep as O'Neill's creations, in part because they don't yearn for anything.
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" Schiele, in his extreme self-pitying self-regard — this is an exhibition, after all, with separate categories for "The Self" and "The Ego" (the former, according to their respective wall labels, referring to the "body language" of the self-portraits, while the latter focuses on the "fiction of identity") — approaches spirituality as a hybrid of narcissism and carnality, with a haloed "Self-Portrait as a Saint.
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As if getting a standard-issue celebrity-inspired haircut at an established salon didn't have enough nerve-wracking potential already (what if there's a miscommunication and your new stylist uses a razor on your frizz-prone ends instead of proper shears?), there's a hairdresser in Russia whose cuts will make you fear for your life — and not in a self-pitying "my bangs are too short" kind of way.
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"The idea came from this feeling I've been sitting with (that a lot of us have been sitting with) of being triggered and overwhelmed by the constant barrage of new reports of abuse, which are heart-wrenching, followed by hollow PR statements from the accused that seem more self-pitying and deflective than remorseful," O'Hare, who got her MFA in poetry in 2015 and is currently studying to be an herbalist, told Refinery29.
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The major ones are captured in a now-viral post by Chicana writer Myriam Gurba via Tropics of Meta, in which she beautifully sticks a blade into Cummins' lazy exposition; the embarrassing stereotypes and clichés; blatant appropriation of the works of other Latinx writers; the pitying and vilifying gaze laid thickly on Mexicans; and Cummins' exploitative entitlement as a white woman writing a story of a place, people, and experience she has no connection to.
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Shockie knew countless stories of bomb makers who had lost eyes, limbs, hands, dicks to premature explosions; knew operatives who'd succeeded in blackening and burning their faces so that the skin peeled off for months and ran down their backs in rivulets, and they looked like hideous ghouls, unable to do the anonymous work of revolution without exciting the pitying, curious stares of onlookers—the same looks you hoped to elicit for the craters you left behind.
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But a year in, when the predictable comebacks of predators have been launched, legal consequences have been few and far between, and the self-pitying essays by predators have been published—when the knowledge that a multiply accused sexual assaulter sits in the White House and another one has been rewarded with a seat on the Supreme Court—it is hard not to feel despondent, hard not to feel that women telling our stories has failed to effect the change we hoped that it would.
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