Sentence examples for a rather sympathetic from inspiring English sources

Gibney was allowed unprecedented access, and appeared to be making a rather sympathetic human-interest film, to the horror of Armstrong's critics.

Hosking, a professor at the University of London, takes a rather sympathetic view of a highly talented and complex nation infused with a deep conviction that it bears a special mission, whether as a spiritual "Third Rome," to counter the consumerism and shallowness of the West, or as master of an immense and enormously rich domain.

It was a great surprise that people were rather sympathetic".

Kilmer is rather sympathetic and amusing: a montage early on in which he struggles with the first line of his new book, and gets more and more cross and sozzled in the process, is great – the germ of another film, one with its feet on the floor, rather than its heart in history and its sense of drama just awol.

Nearly 70 years later, C. W. Post offers a rather more sympathetic setting, inside the museum and around campus.

Indeed Hull's manager can only trust those at the Reebok who remember his days as Allardyce's highly influential assistant take a rather more sympathetic view this weekend.

In Mr. McGuire's dignified interpretation, this selfish and self-pitying old man comes across here as a rather more sympathetic figure than the more stridently self-pitying Vanya.

Tactfully, he replied that he's "rather sympathetic" to medicinal use, assuring listeners that an independent government would do a "good job" when it comes to deciding what is and isn't criminal.

McGrath's rather sympathetic portrait of the Tea Party movement was revealing, but not revealing enough.

But in private he would be rather sympathetic about the European project and its purpose: by instinct he was never in favor of Britain leaving".

The question before him was not whether the capital's rules on snacking in the subway were too harsh he sounded rather sympathetic to the girl's plight but whether they violated the constitution's fourth and fifth amendments (which bar "unreasonable searches" and guarantee "due process").