Noun : We must resist yielding to self-pity and carry on as best we can. From Dictionary.com.
And it wasnt self-pitying, it was real and simple. From Wordnik.com. [wench77 Diary Entry] Reference
Then she smiled again at the rather self-pitying thought. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
Most rock stars would make these lines boastful or self-pitying. From Wordnik.com. [Not Such Heartless Bastards After All] Reference
He plays the self-pitying chef, Artie Bucco on the HBO hit series. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 2, 2006] Reference
It was a household subsidized to the whims of a self-pitying woman. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
And now this is going to turn into ANOTHER whiny, self-pitying entry. From Wordnik.com. [ana-ng Diary Entry] Reference
He is lazy, careless, thoughtlessly cruel, and completely self-pitying. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)] Reference
Mimo had continued to chatter away while I indulged in self-pitying mopery. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
I've not been a very good boyfriend lately ... tired, self-pitying, boring. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
At the same time, feeling self-pitying and starved, needy and empty and sad. From Wordnik.com. [wench77 Diary Entry] Reference
He will then deny it in the most self-pitying and self righteous way imaginable. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Projected To Win South Carolina] Reference
I used to be part of the self-pitying, whining, evangelical/fundamentalist chorus. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schaeffer: Palin, FOX and the Franchise of the Apocalypse] Reference
To the world outside, French nationalism can sometimes seem self-pitying and annoying. From Wordnik.com. [Gallic Pride Is (Surprise!) A Good Thing] Reference
With self-pitying lines pages I fill, so as utterance to give to all my cares and woes. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
That's too self-pitying - couldn't they have at least compared themselves to the Road Runner?. From Wordnik.com. [Generalizations X] Reference
She bit down on her lower lip, disgusted by the self-pitying quiver that had entered her voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Carides Pregnancy]
LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight: Dr. Phil is back and self-pitying psychobabble doesn't stand a chance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2002] Reference
LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight: Dr. Phil is back, and self-pitying psychobabble doesn't stand a chance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2002] Reference
The Scotland I lived in was a pretty hopeless, self-pitying, racially and religiously bigoted place. From Wordnik.com. [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference
Lawrence gave a sort of self-pitying little shrug, but did not look daunted, and his cousin went on. From Wordnik.com. [Wikkey A Scrap] Reference
Governor Sanford let loose with a 20-minute statement that was as selfish and self-pitying as any I. From Wordnik.com. [Beth Broderick: The Betrayed] Reference
Lauren read it bleakly, hearing his voice through the words: Rob, being charming, placating, self-pitying. From Wordnik.com. [Sleeping Partners]
A bit of staged self-pitying, with even the Wall Street hedge fund manager whining that he felt "like a pinata.". From Wordnik.com. [Daphne Wysham: Coming Face to Face with Obama and the Vanishing American Dream] Reference
She has not found it easy to sympathize either with Diana's emotional dramas or Charles's self-pitying complaints. From Wordnik.com. [Mother And Queen] Reference
I endured one of these public talks many years ago and can remember trying to suppress my deep, self-pitying sighs. From Wordnik.com. [Why We Miss Susan Sontag, Volume I] Reference
Yet catch McCain off guard — or off script — these days, and he can act authentically put-upon and self-pitying. From Wordnik.com. [The McCain Mutiny] Reference
Even to herself Helva sounded a little self-pitying, but the truth was she was lonely, sitting on the darkened field. From Wordnik.com. [the ship who sang]
What I don't want to hear, however, is the self-pitying whining of the "horrors of addiction" by these very same morons. field. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
October 26th, 2009 at 7: 56 pm PDT who is talking about brin. i am talking about all the self-pitying losers posting here reply. From Wordnik.com. [Sergey Brin Donates $1 Million To Organization That Helped Him Migrate To The U.S.] Reference
What a narcissistic, self-obsessed, self-pitying, petty little man he has become (or perhaps revealed for all the world to see). From Wordnik.com. [Bill Clinton: Obama Camp Memos Reveal Plan To Play The Race Card On Me] Reference
Perhaps the self-pitying, whining tone of much of their rhetoric has something to do with why Clinton is perceived as unlikable. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Surrogate: Media "Has Relished" Hillary's Fall] Reference
I found it to be calculating, self-serving and bordering on self-pitying because she knows the nomination is slipping away from her. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary's Closer -- A Big Moment, Or Not Enough?] Reference
For the sake of being realistic, it's also good to record the negative things, but they shouldn't become discouraging or self-pitying. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Anxiety: How To Change Your Response] Reference
My comments, tedious or noo, are only directed at YOU and YOUR pathalogically racist, paranoid, puerile self-pitying illiterate ravings. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
A self-pitying teacher can check the heart beats of her class, cause arteries and lungs to contract, and deprive the brain of fresh blood. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
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