Sentence examples for a direct sympathy from inspiring English sources
When he was hungry or wanted a walk or felt insecure, I experienced a direct sympathy, rather than the more complex and nuanced empathy I felt towards humans; nevertheless, while I cheerfully asserted – as do the vast majority of pet owners – that he was "a member of the family", I remained in no doubt that his membership was of a different order to the bipedal ones.
When a young man of 23 dies on a railway track - high on drugs and alcohol, having fled the police, his car abandoned at the side of a nearby road - it is perhaps misguided to direct sympathy anywhere other than to his family and friends.
Feeling no direct sympathy for Amir, the reader can assess the circumstances depicted with a degree of objectivity and feel a greater repulsion for the atrocities that take place in Afghanistan – creating more sympathy for the people who, unlike Amir, could not escape.
He has direct sympathy with the affections and motives of the agent and indirect sympathy with the recipient's gratitude; or in judging the agent's behaviour improper the spectator has indirect sympathy with the agent's resentment (Smith 1790, p. 74).
He said the agency had sympathy for the view that delaying the progression of life-threatening disease "may be a direct clinical benefit in itself".
For a direct injection of electricity to the ear drums or a sharpened stiletto plunged into the soul, there are few solos to match that extracted from his Les Paul by Keith Richards on the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil.
Make a direct submission.
They were careful to direct their "sympathy" or "prayers" to the "North Korean people," not to the government, in contrast to Beijing and Moscow, which sent official condolences to the authorities in Pyongyang, the capital.
The unlucky made do with an office couch and directed their sympathy toward those withthe bad fortune to have been taking a subway or an elevator at the very minute that something went extremely wrong with that power station somewhere up north.
