Sentence examples for Stir compassion from inspiring English sources

The star of this tale is Lucrezia Borgia, whose agonies over her older brother's cruelty and her father's disregard for her marital happiness stir compassion for a woman who possesses, in Dunant's telling, more honor than her male relatives, and a strong intelligence she is prevented from fully exercising.

Even images of small children facing deprivation aren't enough to stir compassion in some Americans, if those children are Latin American: last summer after leaked images of children in US Border Patrol processing centers went viral, immigration opponents tried to stop buses filled with families in Murrieta, California, shouting with hatred at those inside.

Our ability to feel sad is what stirs compassion in others and empathy in ourselves.

"I'm very sad I sympathized with them (Jews) when I saw the film," said a Shiite woman perturbed that it had stirred compassion in her.

"My hope is that VR is the tool we need to stir more compassion for one another," said Milk. "I think VR holds the potential to fundamentally change journalism".

War, politics, crime, terrorism, destitution: all bring out extremes in human nature that make for compelling reading, stir up our compassion, anger or horror – all emotions that make us feel alive and engaged.

My compassion stirred when she said, "I just miss my friends, Mom".

If technology could allow animals to show us that animals do have future aspirations (imagine hearing your dog say: "I want to play ball"), and that they value their lives ("Don't kill me!"), it is possible that this technology could stir in us deeper compassion for animals killed for meat.

Here, the presenter's shift from irritation to compassion seem to stir the initial images of the situation.

The murder of a 10-year-old boy this week has stirred a communal sense of compassion and fear, heartbreak and generosity in this racially diverse town, among total strangers as well as those who knew the child.

BEIJING — A  toddler who stirred a national debate on compassion after being run over twice by vans and left lying in a market street in southern China has died a week after the incident, hospital officials in Guangzhou said on Friday.