In the brilliant episode "A Whole Other Hole," the series even turns its sweetest character, Morello, into its most chilling figure; yet as the details of her stalker history unfold we maintain sympathy — this is the show at its most ingenious, mingling compassion with clarity about the world's terrors.
Unfortunately, as written, her character is so passive (she looks on, mute and immobile, as one of her best friends is kicked to death by Billy's thugs) that it is hard to maintain sympathy for her as the movie's moral center.
Washington has failed to capitalize on the ouster of Saddam Hussein, those critics say, and did not maintain the sympathy generated by the Sept. 11 attacks.
The willful Marianne is not an easy role and while Hamill shines as adaptor, she is fine but not exceptional as that impetuous young woman who must maintain our sympathy while being an utter dolt, not to mention emotionally imploding at various key moments.
Suppose, as the philosopher David Hume maintained, that sympathy is a deep and widely shared feature of human psychology.
The boys shared a made-up baby language until they were weaned off it, on the advice of their pediatrician, and maintained an unusual sympathy of experience.
Mr. Bishara acknowledges that as an Israeli Arab he is living a contradiction, sharing citizenship with Jewish Israelis and an intimate knowledge of their culture, but maintaining a strong sympathy and solidarity with his Palestinian brothers.
Maintaining calm, expressing sympathy, thanking the child for having the strength to reach out, encouraging problem solving together, and following up later to make sure a proposed solution worked those are all ways adults can support kids and nurture relationships that will help stop bullying.
His astonishing portrayal maintains the audience's sympathy while fearlessly depicting the character's ugly side.
This fits assumptions that are used in popular trainings on social competences, as for example from Hinsch and Pfingsten (2007), where three prototypical types of situations are used (to assert one's right, to maintain relationships, to bid for sympathy).
The security with which these musicians negotiated this spectral music set the tone for a collaboration of striking sympathy and balance, maintained through a slashing Allegro con brio, a funereal Largo and a sardonic Allegretto-Adagio.
