Strike while the iron's hot and ask newly former colleagues, their faces pinched with pity, to write you recommendations on your LinkedIn profile.
The sustaining magic of Defoe's novel is that the reader comes to regard Crusoe's self-sufficient solitude first with pity, and then with grudging envy.
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The 27-minute movement provides, as Aristotle said tragedy should, a confrontation with pity and fear that leaves us feeling tired, but somehow cleansed and comforted.
If Shakespeare's blistering view shows the devastation that sisterly resentments can wreak, Jennifer Weiner's 2002 best seller "In Her Shoes" portrays how such resentments can coexist with pity and resignation.
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Some of the funniest moments in the book occur on the trip to Texas, when the North Koreans are obliged to treat their hosts with pity and condescension, as is only suitable for those who lack the Dear Leader's fatherly guidance.
That said, it is no small achievement to have reached such a wide audience with the pity of this particular war.
He was freezing more and more solid, he felt like, but he had not thought of his father or the blank frozenness of his father, even in church, which had once filled him with such pity.
News of the baby's ordeal was met with horror and pity by bloggers on Chinese sites.
Some people think I am my body and treat me with prejudice or pity.
And my first brother looked at his younger brother, who was following in his footsteps, with eyes of pity.
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How, for example, did a diminutive ex-dentist, so replete with self-pity and delusions of grandeur, manage to attract and retain the devotion of an excellent wife whom he so frequently abandoned in favour of adventures into the unknown?
Most of us have watched with a mixture of bemusement and pity as delusional American Idol contestants with no discernable talent confidently declare their imminent stardom.
He hires as a caretaker Driss (Omar Sy), a street thug born in Senegal, who treats him with an absence of pity that Philippe finds liberating.
He hires as a caretaker a street thug born in Senegal, Driss (Omar Sy), who treats him with an abundance of pity, and the two men form a roguish friendship.
Now Mr Robinson has replaced self-pity and openness with defiance and (by his standards) secrecy.
Hart treated David with a small degree of pity, which he accepted the way any rescued creature would.
Lance also noticed it and saw that people were struck with awe, and not pity, as his brother became the center of attention.
Dr. Nagata's message underscored that persons with disabilities are usually seen as the objects of pity and misfortune and are often left helpless on their own or with their parents.
His protagonist's self-pity becomes hopelessly intertwined with funny absurdity, but then the wrenching consequences of his words become clear.
Today, looking out from his church opposite the Omagh army base and its 20ft high security walls, that is a conversation he still wants to have with people he has come to pity rather than hate.
To the contrary, I express a sentiment that I have heard from a vast number of women, who collectively have said that your recent article entitled "Don't Marry a Career Woman" was read with disgust, disdain, and pity for a group of people who could be so utterly insensitive and boorish in approving such slanderous filth.
The attractive pair blithely sings, "How quickly pity leads to love, " about their own fortuitous first meeting, which contrasts greatly with the lengthy fight Fosca undertakes to convert Giorgio's pity and dislike into love.
"It is a pity that her techniques died with her, " he told The Hindu newspaper.
It is a pity he did not start with the appendix and trace out what it might entail.
He looked at Titania with an odd combination of pleading and 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.
The pity of this is that, with help, there is every chance that government in Kabul could survive preferably under some other leader than the erratic Hamid Karzai.
It's a pity they didn't play with the liberty and the freedom they played in the second because at least we can enjoy ourselves when we play like that.
Obama spoke with confidence, optimism and grace, avoiding that peevish self pity he is prone to.
But Launchpad does not let people wallow in self-pity it forces them to come up with a better idea fast.
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