It also transforms at the macro level; at its best creating a more tolerant global society, which acts with empathy and influences positive social change.
He once said that Brando's secret to greatness was that he acted "with an empathy and an instinctual understanding that not even the greatest technical performers could possibly match".
Not to drink, or bathe in, but because they believe that offering blood aligns with the first of the Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple: that "One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason".
The change began with an act of empathy.
And, of course, there is a tragic irony here considering all major religions treat the act of empathy and forgiveness with utmost reverence.
The warmth of her stage personality and her voice, which spills over with empathy, act as a protective balm against the songs' bleaker sentiments.
It is the place from which he strives to act and to write with empathy and nuance rather than with fanaticism — to resist the entrenched oppositions of "a world in which easy sloganeering so quickly puts the critical faculty to flight".
Perhaps openly grappling with death is the radical act of empathy we are obligated to bestow on grieving parents and dragon mothers.
What the protagonist actually represents is a construction of the conscience of a privileged Indian — an act of empathy, yes, but mainly an act of imagination, with a slightly Leninist presumption or two.
It struck me as a remarkable act of empathy from a man who'd already been plenty patient with a rookie clerk and who had been, it later was clear to me, correct on the merits.
Presumably his gesture is an act of empathy and identification.
