A narcissist can be sympathetic in this way.
We can't assume that an individual's community will have the knowledge or understanding necessary, or will be sympathetic in their response.
At the time, all of these writers were sympathetic in principle to an activist government, especially when it came to the economy, but questioned the expectations of Great Society planners of antipoverty and related social programs -- or, in Saul Bellow's phrase, the Good Intentions Paving Company.
It's true that the messages from the embassy were sympathetic in tone (trying to diffuse a situation they called the stupid video out for what it was: shitty), and it's true that the White House then distanced itself from those messages.
The vote by the rent board -- the first to be made up mainly of appointees of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg -- suggested that city officials were trying to be sympathetic to tenants in a time of economic distress punctuated by steep budget cuts, tax increases, a subway fare increase and the residual effects of the Sept. 11 attack.
He figured she would be sympathetic and contacted her in a series of anonymous emails signed "citizenfour".
Mira Sorvino (yes, an Oscar winner is in this) is sympathetic as a widowed mother now out on the streets.
The most widely emulated of the Endless is Death, Dream's older sister, a slinky, flat-chested goth who is sympathetic to women readers in a way that the pinup-shaped women of superhero comics could never be.
The university president, Jim Wagner, was sympathetic to the protesters, saying in a letter to University students, "After meeting with our students, I cannot dismiss their expression of feelings and concern as motivated only by political preference or over-sensitivity.
And given the divergence of opinion on findings expressed at the various technical review meetings (Table 2), a number of interviewees from developing countries were sympathetic to WHO's caution in making a recommendation.
