Lady Rose is also rather subdued in the premiere, which is a pity.
It is not a pity party when you can stand up and say, “I am,” to be counted, reaffirmed, human.
Africa was supposedly a place to avoid or, at best, an oddity to pity.
It would have been easy to pity—and forget—the women that Davis played: ordinary, working class, and unromantic.
A creature deserving of pity and a medical diagnosis that will grant them a special status in society.
It's a pity you ain't got some one to shut down on you that way.
"It is a pity some of his friends were not here," said the captain of the ship that had rescued him.
It has been said that unsettled questions have no pity for the repose of nations.
This we too well know you can, and have done—more is the shame and the pity!
It were a pity, if all this outcry should draw no customers.
early 13c., from Old French pite, pitet "pity, mercy, compassion, care, tenderness; pitiful state, wretched condition" (11c., Modern French pitié), from Latin pietatem (nominative pietas) "piety, loyalty, duty" (see piety). Replaced Old English mildheortness, literally "mild-heartness," itself a loan-translation of Latin misericordia. English pity and piety were not fully distinguished until 17c. Transferred sense of "grounds or cause for pity" is from late 14c.
"to feel pity for," late 15c., from Old French pitier and from pity (n.). Related: Pitied; pitying.
