Candy pitifully protests but is eventually overwhelmed by the shouted demands of the men. In the area of thrills and chills, "Necromancy" is pitifully malnourished. Still, the college was "pitifully underfinanced" and rented space from a local high school. Susan is described as a "shadowy figure" who went "quietly, pitifully, mad". Samuel Hiestand ministered in a period when salaries were pitifully small. He pitifully says she is my girlfriend and shrugs. Even more seriously, replacement pilots were being sent to France with pitifully few flying hours. However, the United Nations adaptation fund remains pitifully under-resourced at US$18 million. Sue pitifully looks at Willard and tells him he is fired. Technology is in pitifully short supply in Pyongyang. The monthly appropriation for the library in 1946 was the "pitifully low sum" of $185.00. In construction the libretto is pitifully crude.