Sentence examples for compassionate studies from inspiring English sources

"People in Trinidad are interesting only to chaps in universities who want to do compassionate studies about brutes," he is quoted as saying.

A sampling of his ad hominem remarks were circulated some weeks ago [ the July 19th issue] in The Times Literary Supplement, in an item meant to show up Naipaul's imperial dismisiveness (he is referred to, with heavy-handed irony, as "the great man"). "People in Trinidad are interesting only to chaps in universities who want to do compassionate studies about brutes," he is quoted as saying.

"As uncontrolled, so-called compassionate studies, fail to reach clear conclusions, they muddy the waters to the point that it becomes increasingly difficult to carry out the appropriate studies," Lane cautioned.

On the surface a thriller in the Hitchcock mode, like many Chabrol films, Le Boucher is a subtle, compassionate study of sexual frustration.

Griffiths won Olivier and Tony awards, in London and New York, for his compassionate study of this natural outsider, and repeated his performance in Nicholas Hytner's film version.

In 1953 our reviewer, Frances Keene, called this a "painstaking, compassionate study" and praised Moravia's ear for "the rhythm of seemingly pointless banter".

This is not a vulgar triumphal image of monarchy but a compassionate study in age which is simultaneously an American's frankly fascinated investigation of royalness.

But it is an engrossing and compassionate study of a great talent brought low, and the film's "unofficial" status is liberating.

O'Sullivan's compassionate study of psychosomatic illness through the exploration of seven case studies demonstrated how past traumas manifest themselves in very real symptoms.

Frank Kermode wrote here that the result is a "skillful and compassionate" study of the war and "an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make it part of our minds".

Overlooked if not dormant for the past two decades, Paolo, now 82, and Vittorio, 83, are back with Caesar Must Die, a taut, compassionate study of the preparations for a production of Julius Caesar.