self-pity

Yet even as the Germans wallowed in bitter self-pity, another defeated superpower underwent a dramatic turnaround.

He drained the wine from the tumbler and turned away from the window, and there was no self-pity in his gravelly voice.

Also, the lack of self-pity was part of the ideology when I grew up.

Kandynce remained where she was and evidenced not a twinge of self-pity.

It is a potential firelighter of vanity, self-pity and logorrhoeic dullness.

The Reverend swallowed again, struggled to keep his eyes dry, for the rush of self pity almost overcame him.

Then the springs of self-pity were touched and she would have stopped the sale had she dared or known quite how.

But the light died out, and an expression of almost self-pity supplanted it.

He even considered himself, with great self-pity, returning and finding her married and happy, of course.

When he had eaten the bread of affliction, seasoned with tears of self-pity and remorse, mamma re-appeared with papa.