They never indulged in self-pity, no matter how stacked the odds were against them.
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And it is easy to imagine how this leads to the tar-pit of self-pity.
You have shown no remorse and the only thing that has burdened you is self-pity.
His self-pity is not deep enough to wipe out his inspiration for writing and singing, though.
Now Mr Robinson has replaced self-pity and openness with defiance and (by his standards) secrecy.
His final ordeal might have inspired great self-pity, though he displayed no hint of it.
Thus Thurber's latter years are tragic, if his correspondence shows little evidence of self-pity.
His protagonist's self-pity becomes hopelessly intertwined with funny absurdity, but then the wrenching consequences of his words become clear.
But 20 years on, the danger is the catharsis may slip into self-pity.
Argentines, who have a tendency to self-pity, duly blamed it both for doing this and for not doing it earlier.
There is an element of self-pity there, of course: many blue-collar workers have a better claim to disposable-android status.
But Launchpad does not let people wallow in self-pity it forces them to come up with a better idea fast.
It is rather an irritating read, often falling into the self-glamorising and self-pity that can be a feature of white Africans.
But I also remember listening to her talk about the hardships in her life, and she did so without any self-pity.
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He never exhibited any sense of self-pity over the hand he was dealt, or regret about the choices he had made.
This self-pity poisons the fun, rendering even the algorithmic nudity which is surely half the reason that viewers tune in grim rather than hot.
Because after all, we are in a state of self-pity and self-accusation.
And I don't believe that President-elect Obama will be full of self-pity.
Despite his terrible injuries and the 50 or so operations that followed to rebuild his face, Robin has never given in to self-pity.
The executives I interviewed picked themselves up and got on with business instead of wallowing in self-pity, just like Smart, Lin, Garvey, and Zinardi.
"Richard II can seem like a paean of self-pity, " Doran said.
There are slow passages, and sequences that lean too hard on self-pity, but there are many more moments of crazy transcendence, plus a fart joke or two.
To vary Wilfred Owen, the poetry is in the self-pity.
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Refused to wallow in anything related to self-pity or suffering.
And Ringil is hot-headed and prone to self-pity and self-destructiveness.
And then figuring out how to tell the difference between the two and letting the former go, while working to overcome the latter without lashing out or lapsing into self-pity.
Unfortunately for him, much of the pathos he was trying to convey was undone by his occasional flashes of animosity and resentment, plus glimpses of the monumental self-pity he seemed unable to suppress.
But there is still something unsettling about Mr Adams's unusual hints of resignation, his references to physical and emotional exhaustion, and the self-pity that for a while at least appears to have displaced the old self-confidence.
Some were just holding out for something they have never before seen from this President: a flat, clear admission of wrongdoing, stripped of self-pity or sophistry, that would allow them to spank him and move on.
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