pitifulness

But a mob without any man at the head of it, is beneath pitifulness.

And the pitifulness of her life on earth caused her sorrow.

Downstairs she had seemed aimless, shapeless, almost helpless, an object of disgusting pitifulness.

There is a certain touch of smallness and pitifulness, he said, in all religion, but especially in experimental religion.

He stood in the front hall, twitching his long, thin neck and tearing his scarf from it, and smiled with a strange pitifulness.

His verse and prose focus on plain expressions of emotion, patriotism, the joy of young love, and the pitifulness of the poor.

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

They didn't stare around the way the younger man and woman did at the shocking poverty and the pitifulness of Grandpa whittling and acting as if no one had come to call.

With delicate sarcasm he narrated the last weeks, the patience with which Cronshaw bore the well-meaning clumsiness of the young student who had appointed himself his nurse, and the pitifulness of that divine vagabond in those hopelessly middle-class surroundings.

It was only when, turning suddenly to her, he blurted out twice, "I've come to you--I've come straight to you--," without being able to finish his phrase, that the great pitifulness of that lonely and tormented death in Costaguana came to her with the full force of its misery.