Piteous, Pitiable, and Pitiful: Answers to Practice Exercises
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Answers to Practice Exercises: Piteous, Pitiable, and Pitiful.
(a) "Robbed of revenge against Chill, Bruce [Wayne] has launched his assault on all criminals--every thug he slugs a pitiful substitute for his parents' killer--but he comes to recognize that justice is bigger than vengeance and that he can inspire much more."
(Travis Langley, Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight, 2012)
(b) "Before they left the breakfast-table, the shop-bell rang sharply, and Hepzibah set down the remnant of her final cup of tea, with a look of sallow despair that was truly piteous to behold."
(Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables, 1851)
(c) "I looked up at the shelf with the sad woman's picture on it, some pitiable child's woebegone mama, and it seemed to me that even the roughest lives I'd read about in books were warmer and softer than theirs must've been."
(Clay Carmichael, Wild Things, 2009)
Answers to Practice Exercises: Piteous, Pitiable, and Pitiful.
(a) "Robbed of revenge against Chill, Bruce [Wayne] has launched his assault on all criminals--every thug he slugs a pitiful substitute for his parents' killer--but he comes to recognize that justice is bigger than vengeance and that he can inspire much more."
(Travis Langley, Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight, 2012)
(b) "Before they left the breakfast-table, the shop-bell rang sharply, and Hepzibah set down the remnant of her final cup of tea, with a look of sallow despair that was truly piteous to behold."
(Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables, 1851)
(c) "I looked up at the shelf with the sad woman's picture on it, some pitiable child's woebegone mama, and it seemed to me that even the roughest lives I'd read about in books were warmer and softer than theirs must've been."
(Clay Carmichael, Wild Things, 2009)
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