self-pity

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Recent Examples of self-pity Pixar has never hesitated to show childhood tumult before, or to explore the feelings that might lead someone to act out, but Elio’s combination of mourning and self-pity are a genuine challenge. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 17 June 2025 Weinstein had a self-pitying and widely covered jailhouse conversation with right-wing commentator Candace Owens in March. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 June 2025 The work of avoiding such ignominious history and getting this turned around is Warren Schaeffer’s to do, and the former Yard Goats skipper is not giving despair or self-pity the time of day. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025 And Carl realizes that a new case is just the thing to pull Hardy out of his spiral of self-pity. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for self-pity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-pity
Noun
  • Julianne cited her sisters' accomplishments in their own fields, as well as their flourishing personal lives, as a reason why the sadness never flowered into full-on resentment.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Shock, anger, sadness, disbelief were words used by multiple senior sources inside the West Wing, ABC News' Katherine Faulders said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, nothing negates the unique way in which people from the South embrace socializing with each other, which brings us to a potentially awkward situation that arises often enough and gives grief to even the most polite Southerners.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Anyone who’s been blindsided by grief and still found a way to move forward.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet imagined the relationship between the Bard and his spouse as an intimate tale of lust, compromise, joy, resentment, support, and sorrow.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Jolie nonetheless manages to bring some palpable life to the role, complicating her otherworldly magnetism with a dawning dread and sorrow.
    Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Lacy’s new music maintains his sly sense of humor, but with a barefaced melancholy that pushes it to new emotional depths.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
  • More often than not, the film’s nostalgia is sweet and enjoyable because it is paired with the melancholy that comes from all the acknowledgments of the actors from the original who died over the last 29 years.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • The Industrial Revolution brought widespread misery in the form of brutal factory working conditions.
    P.E. Moskowitz September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The era [or error] is close to an end, so do your best to enjoy the final moments, recall all the good times before misery and depression sets in.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Haley Robson described the anguish caused by ever-metastasizing Epstein conspiracy theories and endless Epstein news cycles, and her hope that releasing the files could finally put the case to bed.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Above all, there’s Rob, whose romantic getaway has turned into a slog of romantic anguish.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Hank, having already experienced life-changing failure, is also able to absorb beatings that would destroy most people, endure the agony, and leap back into action.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The buddy story ended in agony when it was revealed that Edwards was on the list and complicit in the ambush plot.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The doom and gloom among consumers is likely related to the concerning trend of low hiring that is increasingly becoming apparent from revisions by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The mood in clean tech is far from doom and gloom.
    Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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