It took all kinds, Rostov thought, and the Party was sometimes compelled to work with sorry specimens.

He could not recall ever having seen anybody looking so depressed, and wondered whether the sorry specimen might appreciate a few kind words.

I had doubts about his mother's honor but it would have been unmannerly to express them, especially in dealing with so sorry a specimen.

She could not imagine that such a sorry specimen of poverty commanded any resources whatever.

The pigs of San Isadore were sorry specimens.

The people, once so arrogant, once so sure of world mastery, are a sorry specimen to behold.

A sorry specimen you've fished up for us, Talun.

You are a sorry specimen.

He found himself confronted by a sorrier specimen than himself.

Chewing out these sorry specimens would almost make up for the despicable heat.