Sentence examples for active sympathy from inspiring English sources

He listened to women with patience and active sympathy; he was like the tender, respectful brother or father they'd always imagined having.

That is still I think the most attractive option and one with which I imagine Gordon Brown would be in active sympathy.

The boasts of the 90,000-strong UVF that it enjoyed active sympathy in the British army became plausible when the officers in the cavalry brigade at The Curragh suddenly announced in March 1914 that they would resign if ordered to move against the UVF.

By proclaiming the right of the peoples to self-determination, including the right to secession, he won the active sympathy, or at least the benevolent neutrality, of the non-Russian nationalities within Russia, because the Whites did not recognize that right.

'Creative a priori' is shorthand for active sympathy, individual but imperceptible ways of thinking and expansive thought.

Indeed, nowhere in Quantum Anthropologies do we find an outside phenomenon that is being analysed in a disembodied manner and, in that sense, the book is true to Metzger's active sympathy.

It is doubtful, though, that he had active sympathies for the left; he probably stayed in the Army because, as Weber writes, it "provided a raison d'être for his existence".

I have an active, anxious sympathy for the queen.

Through its pro-active nature, sympathy is more complex, and speaking about his personal experience he notes that his sympathy is "less spontaneous, more subject to calculation, sometimes even selfish Instead of flowing straight from my empathy, my sympathy takes a detour through a rational filter" (2009: 89).

By watching it on the news and reading about it we can sympathise, and somehow sympathy feels active, feels easier.

What Fukuyama calls "the international jihadist movement" might include only a few tens of thousands of militants, but for passive sympathy or active support it can count on tens of millions of Muslims in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.