How to Use self-pity in a Sentence

self-pity

noun

• Become a Subscriber The trick is not to feel self-pity.
  — Donald Platt, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2023
• There’s no way any of these characters are self-pitying.
  — Simran Hans, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• The loss of Eileen and return of the self-pitying Orwell alter ego are certainly linked.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
• First there was anger, then there was self-pity, then came a period of introspection.
  — Steve Douglas, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
• In a split second, whatever self-pity had taken a hold of him following the attack is gone.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• The process, at times, has left him vacillating from tears of self-pity to intense anger and severe depression.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• Never mind that country music is — or was, a few decades back — the genre people could count on to commiserate in self-pity.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 19 July 2023
• Where Zoolander is flashy and silly, Greenberg is self-pitying, self-aware, and self-serving: think Girls for grown men.
  — Lia Beck, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2024
• Boyle plays Booth as both vainglorious and self-pitying.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• The butterfly is meant to symbolize her fairy godmother, who helps Carolina get rid of self-pity to take control of her life.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• Antonioni lesson learned, Davies transcends the shoe-gazing self-pity shown by so many of the world’s woke filmmakers who suffer sick Eros and sick Morality.
  — Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
• The self-pity in their music is run-of-the-mill, but the exhilaration and desolation and honesty and we’re-coming-out exuberance—that part’s unique.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2023
• Scene 6: Jean’s death Oppenheimer is devastated at the news that Jean died by suicide, but Kitty has no sympathy for his self-pitying.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• But that factor also contributes to the queasy feeling in High & Low that the subject is less defined by humbled remorse than self-pitying martyrdom.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• Madame Ovary, as she was called by one conservative French critic, was the prime example of the erosion of literary art by narratives of self-pity and marginalization.
  — Rachel Cusk, New York Times, 2 May 2023
• In several letters, Gunn apologizes for talking about himself at all, and often equates self-expression with self-pity.
  — Matthew Bevis, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2022
• Trump should remember that self-pitying laments about legal troubles are never audience-pleasers.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
• Social media thrives on self-deprecating riffs about rejection, but writers tend to reserve their most despairing fits of self-pity for their diaries.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
• Paranoid about her unpopularity, prone to self-pity, the latter-day Queen is (as written) strikingly uninvolved in affairs of state.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• Thrives on self-pity and emotional turmoil, seeking attention and sympathy from others.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• Gore resisted self-pity by projecting mordant good humor.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• That, in the aftermath of the Díaz incident, almost every club could pick out a litany of its own injustices in the recent past was designed to illustrate that Liverpool’s response was somehow excessive or self-pitying.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• His kids are conspicuously absent (the ones who matter, so everyone except Connor) and there’s a mopey self-pitying air to Logan’s typically erratic mood.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
• Jaouad writes about her cancer diagnosis and several-year struggle for health without self-pity, with vulnerability and candor.
  — Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
• Foote is exceptional at portraying this complex, defensive and mercurial character who is mired in self-pity, yet boyishly open in his affection for and dependence on Shawn.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
• But even their sweet, tentative romance, predicated on mutual curiosity and real attraction, can’t help but bring out Ben’s ugly side, from his reflexive self-pity to his objectifying, self-loathing assumptions about interracial coupledom.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024