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In fact, the sheer pitifulness of Doris’s self-deception would be downright insulting were it not for Field’s delicate performance, in which she subtly transforms from a slump-shouldered mouseburger to something more radiant and at ease.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

Lee brought to his monsters a sense of pitifulness that he called "the loneliness of evil."

From Reuters • Jun. 11, 2015

We are moved by the pitifulness of the suffering as well as by the horror of the evil.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.

Then the old man, robed in white and crowned and wreathed with flowers, was carried round to the other side; and oh, the pitifulness of it all!

From Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India by Carmichael, Amy

She knew just the pitifulness that was in his expression, but she could not raise her eyes to his.

From A Love Story Reversed 1898 by Bellamy, Edward