Gary Lineker

I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

English Footballer

Emily Giffin

I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.

American Author

Gerald R. Ford

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

American President

Gary Becker

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

American Economist

George Saunders

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

American Writer

Steve Earle

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

American Musician

Lee Isaac Chung

I always loved Flannery O'Conner, and how she's not trying to create sympathetic characters.

American Director

George A. Romero

The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.

Homer

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Greek Poet

Howard Barker

British Playwright

Shows a deeper connection with someone's emotions than mere understanding.

Empathic Nuance

Expresses true care and is not just a social formality.

Genuine Concern

Often carries a warm and kind emotional tone, not cold or indifferent.

Emotional Tone

Used in relation to the body's involuntary reactions, especially under stress.

Biological Context

Describes reactions that are automatic, not controlled consciously, such as blushing.

Physical Reflexes

Activates physiological responses like increased breathing for survival and alertness.

Stress Response

Suggests having similar views or goals in a particular matter.

Aligned Interests

Offering encouragement and understanding for someone's decisions or beliefs.

Moral Support

Indicating a shared agreement or endorsement of political views or policies.

Political Affinity

 But what's remarkable, is that for all of their differences, what both of these stories are about is a longing for connection. And if we can get out of the first-person narration and write the story from another character's perspective, suddenly that other character becomes much more sympathetic,

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 by the government not very many months ago. I mean, I know I'm with a sympathetic audience here, but, as we know, a lot of people are not entirely persuaded by this logic. And this is actually a rather good comparison, it seems to me. You know, a lot of people said, "Well, you know,

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 they believe that all communications -- emails, texts, voice calls -- all of these should be available to governments, and encryption is making that difficult. Now, look -- I'm extremely sympathetic to their point of view. We live in a dangerous time in a dangerous world,

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 What's more, it energizes you to confront that injustice. Think for a second about the last time you got mad. Your heart rate increased. Your breathing increased, you started to sweat. That's your sympathetic nervous system, otherwise known as your fight-or-flight system,

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 are of very little use to ourselves, but they're of great use to our groups. He wrote about the scenario in which two tribes of early humans would have come in contact and competition. He said, "If the one tribe included a great number of courageous, sympathetic

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 on the pretense of checking for typhus outbreaks. At first, her group worked to smuggle in resources with the help of sympathetic Polish officials and the medical underground. But as desperate parents began sending their children through sewers and over walls,

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 stigma the truth about bipolar disorder and mental illness really is no one really talks about it I've shared my condition with a few friends privately their reactions have ranged from surprise sympathetic pure uncomfortable they think they know

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 I try to be very sympathetic, knowing that it's a local home town treat that is specific to that region. I try to go into it with a heart, but this is what is set forth when it comes to protecting US agricultural. Okay. What we got next?

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 Now -- the problem -- the problem is that even those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful but somehow reduced to the margins of history as the real world, meaning our world, moves on.

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 military government gave way to an elected one which was more sympathetic to Indians and environmentalists in the Brazil of today tribal rights are written down in the constitution large areas of rainforest to protect it by law