Sentence examples for commiserate with him from inspiring English sources

David Niven and a waiter commiserate with him on the difficulty of extracting payment from the producer.

"Voters are extremely discriminating" was the comment on the day after the election from Clinton, who had called the Mayor that morning to commiserate with him.

In a 1995 letter to Father Shanley, Cardinal Law seemed to commiserate with him over the fact that one of his accusers was intent on keeping track of Father Shanley's postings and whether he was being monitored.

THE last man the playwright had expected to hear on his telephone was Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president, calling to commiserate with him over the banning of his latest script.During a genial, 15-minute conversation, Mr Rajapaksa said he was piqued with the government's Public Performances Board (PPB) for blocking the political play.

I unwisely wrote to Julian Barnes to commiserate with him about his non-appearance on the shortlist: I was quoted as blaming it on "all those women" (my four fellow judges were Edna Healey, Isabel Quigly, Gillian Reynolds and Bernice Rubens).

Commiserate with him.

When Representative Richard A. Gephardt came in fourth in Iowa, Mr. Dole commiserated with him.

"He said he had just talked to Gary Hart, and commiserated with him — which set him on to talking about what he would have done, in Hart's position.

Writer commiserated with him over the poor health of Patsy Cline, a runty-looking hybrid tea with few prospects for blooms.

He'll get no argument from McDowell, who said that when he sought a second opinion, the tour rules official commiserated with him while confirming the penalty.

Roth finds his perfect female counterpart in Edna O'Brien, who, in an interview from 1984, commiserates with him about the anxiety, particular to artists, that comes from "trying to make something out of nothing".