"Gaudeamus" works best not as the sort of political statement that moves you to action, pity, hope or even inquiry.
In record time, we've gone from schadenfreude to lachrymose liberal pity.
But there was little to pity about the man who had become king.
In Ramallah, at least, there was no one to pity, and nobody complained about the music.
Indeed, the sentiments of some local people ranged from disgust to pity, but never included outright hatred.
Our difference as to pity I suspect was a logomachy of my making.
He did not want to subject himself to female pity.
"It's not nearly so dangerous as yielding to facile pity."
An instant of revulsion gave way to sudden, overwhelming pity.
He'd seen the worst of men whom children don't move to natural pity.