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Screenwriter, I said, and his tacit, half-pitying, half-amused how many times has he heard this before? nod.
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Screenwriter, I said, and his tacit, half-pitying, half-amused how many times has he heard this before? nod.
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He had been a soldier half his life, he knew the discomforts, the injustices, he knew the half-pitying glances of men whose business let them sleep safe at night, but they did not know this.
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But all he got so far was mute shaking of heads and glances half-pitying, half-relieved.
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He went swiftly over t'u Hayem's background, and a wry, half-pitying grin twisted his mouth.
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Then he said, slowly, in a tone of half-pitying contempt:
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He seemed content to put his finger on the weak spot in any system without troubling to point out a remedy; and to Owen, whose eager mind was ever ready to remedy abuses, this attitude of half-pitying, half-amused toleration was vaguely irritating.
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They are not intended 'virginibus puerisque', and the author's attitude is that of a half-pitying, half-contemptuous moralist, yet the virility of his criticism has brought him immortality.
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"We promise," said La Salle, encouragingly, while Kennedy gave a half-pitying nod of the head.
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Then the chaos subsided and the old woman looked out defiantly at the major and at the half-amused, half-pitying soldier boys.
Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier
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