self-pitying

The public uproar intensified when he made a self-pitying television statement and reached its peak when the inquest was held in private.

I sat there and wondered how he managed to see a self-pitying woman beneath an old willow tree.

No, sir, we are not a self- pitying nation, we had not been, and will not be.

We've always found him to be a little whiny and self-pitying, but okay, who wouldn't be?

This still seems a rather self-pitying analysis, particularly when he goes on to describe how he had seen detainees being tortured.

He identifies that his self-pitying, negative attitude has always been his problem.

Having been constructed in a self-pitying rage, there are gaps between the logs, untrue angles, a doorframe angrily nailed to the outside.

I walked the unemployment lines the other day to talk to this American. It is depressed, pained and bewildered. But not self-pitying.

Yes, perhaps that's what happiness is, the self-pitying awareness of our unhappiness.

I hate wallowers and that's what we've turned into -- a couple of sighing, slack- jawed , self-pitying wallowers!

That, in turn, risks leading to an unstable foreign policy that is aggressive, self-righteous and self-pitying in equal measures.

Self-pitying dreamers are not wanted here;