He also pointed to his humble beginnings growing up on a farm in Paint Creek, Texas – a home he said was "too small to even call it a town" – to empathize with the plight many Americans are facing today.
This, to me, is gossip: At one point, trying out a debating point that she believed showed she could empathize with uninsured Americans, Palin told McCain aides that she and Todd in the early years of their marriage had been unable to afford health insurance of any kind, and had gone without it until he got his union card and went to work for British Petroleum on the North Slope of Alaska.
Some writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Lincoln Steffens, believed that reporters are morally obligated to write stories that are true, well-crafted, and rhetorically persuasive because they can lead readers to empathize with their subjects and can inspire action against social injustice and abuses of power.
Based on Dreiser's remembrance of his beloved mother, Jennie emerges as a plaster saint with whom most modern readers find it difficult to empathize.
Such imitation presumably has a civilizing value for those who empathize with it.
Mental images are cultivated and efforts are made to empathize with God or with figures from the Bible.
But as he pursued the insurgents, Chávez began to empathize with them, seeing them as peasants fighting for a better life.
When Lennon's mother was killed by a speeding police car in 1958, McCartney, with his own mother's death still fresh in his memory, was able to empathize with the distraught 17-year-old, creating a bond that became the basis of their close friendship.
Those with high interpersonal intelligence are able to get along well with others, work cooperatively, communicate effectively, empathize with others, and motivate others.
However, meeting with Miller in person in Beverly Hills, to discuss her latest role in the action film G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra, it's hard not to empathize with this likeable young woman whose ambitions and dreams are not dissimilar to any other 27 year old.
At an address to the US Congress in September, Pope Francis called on lawmakers to empathize with immigrants and refugees and to welcome them into their country.
