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  • Thumbnail for Stephen King
    sees his job not as the source of anguish and pain many writers self-pityingly see it as, but rather as something he's over-the-moon delighted to be...
    152 KB (15,237 words) - 06:53, 8 June 2024
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    pawning her wedding ring while the pawnbroker and his assistant look on pityingly. Cited by Van Gogh in a letter to his contemporary and mentor Anthon van...
    35 KB (4,162 words) - 06:19, 21 May 2024
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    specially in Berlin, when Liszt showed himself there, I shrugged my shoulders pityingly and thought: quiet sabbatarian Germany does not wish to lose the opportunity...
    12 KB (1,512 words) - 09:01, 27 May 2024
  • Cora tomorrow. Larry Slade is a former syndicalist-anarchist who looks pityingly on the rest. Don Parritt is the son of a former anarchist who shows up...
    30 KB (3,311 words) - 07:23, 3 June 2024
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    hands in supplication; at left, another, borne away by a Roman, looks pityingly at her infant, who cries and seeks to follow her; in middle, a third energetically...
    4 KB (337 words) - 01:42, 2 May 2024
  • a Cold War desire to repress change as illustrated by "Harriet's self-pityingly dogged focus on their marriage" without dealing with the radicalism of...
    89 KB (11,599 words) - 08:13, 14 February 2024
  • not let it stay human, its only respite from pain - then dies. Brender pityingly calls it "poor Frankenstein," then uses the Controller-enhanced ship to...
    8 KB (1,161 words) - 06:14, 20 January 2024
  • not emotional self-indulgence. The students, however, just look at him pityingly and ask him when he plans to leave. As the title suggests, The Clockwork...
    7 KB (989 words) - 05:24, 9 April 2024
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    interposition of William Carstares and the Duke of Queensberry, who wrote of him pityingly, as an 'instance of the folly of Jacobitism', he was permitted towards...
    13 KB (1,621 words) - 15:22, 1 January 2024
  • alcoholic. His wife is a demanding shrew. Ogden suffers acutely from self-pityingly memories of his abandonment of his first wife. "The protagonist begins...
    8 KB (1,164 words) - 01:37, 29 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sydney Rowell
    situation in any way, but he will get the kudos and it will be said, rather pityingly, that he came here to hold my hand and bolster me up. On 25 September...
    39 KB (5,005 words) - 10:52, 15 May 2024