Sentence examples for basically sympathetic from inspiring English sources

Gosling's driver had until this moment seemed like a basically sympathetic, romantic guy – involved in crime of course, but who made a point of not carrying a gun.

I then classified the reactions as being either basically sympathetic to Mr. Cain, unsympathetic to Mr. Cain, or fairly neutral and adopting more of a wait-and-see approach.

The picture that Sheehy assembles is contradictory and necessarily incomplete, but, though she assiduously avoids sentimentalizing Duse and tries hard to introduce contemporary skepticism into her account, the biography is basically sympathetic.

His Underground (1995) looked at the history of Serbia from the second world war to the beginning of Yugoslavia's breakup, and was basically sympathetic to the Serbs' cause and contemptuous of the liberal, bleeding-heart Western media which sought to demonise them.

Steve McNamarra, in the Pacific Sun, said that the book was "clearly written and, while basically sympathetic" was not "an adulatory 'house job'".

The idea — propounded by many members of the conservative intelligentsia, from Alan Greenspan to Irving Kristol — was basically that sympathetic politicians should engage in a game of bait and switch.

page A20 op-ed PAUL KRUGMAN Democrats believe that working Americans are getting a raw deal; Republicans, despite occasional attempts to sound sympathetic, basically believe that people have nothing to complain about.

Also, there is a moment during a date when, you hope, her eyes will forget the background and focus on you, or she will laugh at an idiosyncrasy, or you mesh on some point -- the silliness of the name Verizon, a dislike of skiers, a shared fear of heights, the realization that, despite Hollywood, people basically aren't sympathetic -- something.

And I basically conjure a sympathetic imaginary character (all of which may be true of the real person, if a little two dimensional and reductive), and I start to see the character I've just created and myself together.

There was something funny to me about how sympathetic and compelling his character was, when basically everyone else was caught up in this web of crazy, violent, occult shit.

I'm pretty sure Don was basically in sympathy to our cause, if not quite as sympathetic as Mary; but they both might have been a little dubious about mass demonstrations in general.