Sentence examples for a sympathetic set of from inspiring English sources

But in Miller's play, the hysterical girls are the antagonists, capable of bringing a seemingly rational community to its knees, the elder women vanquished, all because they are able to find a sympathetic set of authoritarian ears.

The relaxed jazz classicism of Mr. Pizzarelli's quartet made a sympathetic setting for Mr. Pasquale's gently swinging approach.

She was pretty and, as shown in many of the pictures subsequently taken of her, she could look beautiful in a sympathetic setting.

In "Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir" (Bloomsbury), Gregory writes that as a child he found his father, a son of Jewish immigrants from Russia who blossomed into a Partisan Review progressive intellectual, sympathetic to a "set of egalitarian social values".

Here she exudes a sympathetic, matter-of-fact naturalness.

Neither could have a grander, more sympathetic setting.

To celebrate the album's release, she has enlisted a different set of sympathetic partners: the multireedist Oscar Noriega, the pianist Matt Mitchell, the vibraphonist Patricia Franceschy, the bassist Adam Hopkins and the drummers Kate Pittman and Devin Gray.

Mr. Allen had merely to appear on the screen, hunched over in a pose of pleading anxiety to elicit a set of sympathetic, laugh-ready responses.

*** Can all this come together, and become something bigger, more concrete than ideas, and more co-ordinated than a set of sympathetic campaigns?

From the point of view of disability rights advocates, none of the other cases provided as sympathetic and compelling a set of facts as this one.

As von Oelhoffen spoke, a sympathetic side of him emerged.