Chain of Custody (Bitter Lemon) concerns child slavery in Bangalore and is both brutal and sympathetic, with an all-too-human (and not entirely likable) cop hero.
Maier's eye was extraordinarily true — at once cool and sympathetic, with an instinctive sense of her subjects' place within the frame, and of the dignity that such a place bestowed.
An attractive and sympathetic figure with "a heroically statuesque aura" (the parallels to Axler are unmistakable), the dean is nonetheless so humiliated by Pegeen's rejection that she is reduced to crank calling and stalking Axler's house--which is how she and Axler meet.
I found myself becoming sympathetic with a sniper who found himself placed in many moral dilemmas.
The wacky mayhem continues from there, cynical and yet somehow more or less sympathetic, with an impressive hit rate of gags and one-liners, with the ambient feelgood factor periodically boosted with party scenes and 70s soundtrack album material.
Amanda Seyfried is a strong and sympathetic Linda (though with a more open, uncomplicated prettiness than the real woman herself), still living at home at 21 years old after a troubled adolescence with her fiercely Catholic mum and dad, played by Sharon Stone and Robert Patrick.
Last year Paulina Borsook, a longtime technology journalist, found a large and sympathetic audience with her book "Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech," which attacked the technology world for showing "a lack of human connection and a discomfort with the core of what many of us consider it means to be human".
His newest songs, and some of his oldest, strike the same quizzical balances: nutty and thoughtful, flinty and sympathetic, and always with a good tune to cling to amid joys or disasters.
It has its minor subversions, not least because its female characters, often the most interesting and sympathetic, are portrayed with an increasing sense of their own agency; even Rachel, the stay-at-home daughter rooted in the family home but with no actual control over what will become of it, proves herself to be surprisingly adaptable.
This anatomy should be borne in mind, because it explains how it happens that the remote and "sympathetic pains," associated with an inflammatory condition or chronic disease of the hip-joint, are not always found at the same part of the limb.
