One of the reasons the Swiss architectural firm Herzog and de Meuron won the competition to convert Bankside, Serota told me, was that they seemed to have the closest sympathy with artists.
Here he was in close sympathy concerning the nature of Protestant ethics with his friend the German sociologist and economist Max Weber (1864 1920).
Appropriating Whitman's "democratic enthusiasm," Symonds stresses that erotic attachments between men can enable individuals to reach across class divides and bring them "into close and profitable sympathy with [other] human beings," thus facilitating the emergence of a modern democratic society.
But I'll let those lie for the purposes of this post, and just close with sympathy for the impulse that animates his essay, if not the conclusions that it draws.
The school librarian must have a close knowledge of and sympathy with the work of the teaching staff.
Its greater strengths have to do with its rooting, however avant-garde and exotic it certainly is, in a tradition close to the composer, its extraordinary sympathy with the character it depicts and the huge encouragement it provides to performers.
However, an online petition to the prime minister asking him to "support social workers not imprison them" has already got close 10,000 signatures, and it appears that Sir Michael has sympathy with that view.
"They are Muslims like me so I have sympathy with them," said Mohammed Abubakar, 35, a nurse living close to the sect's former headquarters that now lies gutted.
There, he survives by virtue of the deep sympathy with nature that animates all of Ms. George's protagonists, until the modern world closes in again.
Listening to Rachel meet all of Zelda's reasoned questions, frank confidences and gestures of sympathy with the mulishness of a sullen teenager is unpalatable in the first act, and almost unbearable by the close of the second.
