piteousness

There was hope in her eyes, but also the piteousness of those who don't want to hope too soon.

He looked up at us--oh, the piteousness of that look!

The boy's wail faltered while he took in her words, then it doubled in volume and piteousness.

He hates his own piteousness.

And the piteousness of her tone and the beseeching look in her eyes touched Kris the way the constant stream of apologies hadn't.

Musicologist Julian Mincham notes: "This recitative is a mere eight bars long but its context and piteousness give it enormous dramatic impact.

But in the eyes of Ruth was none of this - sternly, coldly triumphant, indifferent to its piteousness as Norhala herself, she scanned the waste that less than an hour since had been a place of living beauty.

Fasillar must have sensed as much, for the Alashkurri goddess of birth put on her face a look of such pleading, such piteousness, that even Sharur, knowing full well the expression was assumed, could hardly resist melting under it.

It is of the piteousness that I should be 10 accursedly of the ordinariness; for to see Madame but the one time, as I did at the New Year's Ball in High Altamont, is to remember her forever."

Poems of the Past and the Present (1901, dated 1902) was more warmly received, partly because some of the Boer War poems - distinguished in one commentator's eyes for dwelling 'not on the glory, but on the piteousness of the struggle'- were already familiar through the newspapers.

But since we for athome's health have chanced all that, the wild whips, the wind ships, the wonderlost for world hips, unto their foursquare trust prayed in aid its plumptylump piteousness which, when it turtled around seeking a thud of surf, spake to approach from inherdoff trisspass through minxmingled hair.