Sentence examples for a sympathetic question from inspiring English sources

At one point, some observers may have sensed the Bush lawyer being lobbed a rhetorical lifeline in the form of a sympathetic question from a majority member of the court's initial 5-to-4 decision to hear the case.

So, in sum, she went on a network that pays her to be a pundit and was asked sympathetic questions by a guy who obviously is totally in her corner.

When my wife calmed her down with a cup of tea and sympathetic questions, she told us a remarkable story.

After some sympathetic questions from a couple of editors, Hitchen sprang to his feet to ask why the South African government should think of freeing a terrorist rather than negotiating a deal with the Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who had split from the ANC and was generally regarded as an apartheid government collaborator.

He asked sympathetic questions about being married to a psychiatrist.

Holbrooke spent an intense hour listening to their stories and asking sympathetic questions.

Intelligent, sympathetic questions are often asked; genuine insight sometimes emerges in reply.

There's a reason that President Obama decided to broadcast his meeting with college students on the Internet on Tuesday night, taking sympathetic questions by way of Facebook and Skype and Twitter.

A beginning murmur of modest promises; shrugged evasive responses to awkward questions; emphatic responses to sympathetic questions, signalled by forceful gestures; the whole decorated by self-deprecating family humor — in this case, Dad jokes and husband jokes on the Obama model, clearly indicated by bright, sheepish gestures toward the candidate's spouse.

Starting with topics like Iraq, Sawyer (Kristen Wiig) asks Cheney Darrell Hammondd) increasingly irrelevant, sympathetic questions.

But as he parried a sympathetic Republican's question about how careful the Supreme Court should be in overturning an act of Congress, Judge Roberts also acknowledged a political reality that hung over his confirmation hearings: "All judges are acutely aware of the fact that millions and millions of people have voted for you and not one has voted for any of us".