It's a tribute to the complex sympathies that animate "Dancing with Cuba" that you come away feeling that it didn't have to turn out that way.
That's the source of Eastwood's complex sympathies: for all his obvious disapproval of many of Hoover's actions, he doesn't take the benefit of hindsight as an absolute.
The spiritual, symbolical expression of Blake's complex sympathies, his ability to recognize God in a single blade of grass, inspired Samuel Palmer, who, with his friend Edward Calvert, extracted from nature a visionary world of exquisite, though short-lived, intensity.
The process of adaptation, of telling stories for a visual and popular medium is complex, requiring modesty, sympathy and intellectual rigour in discerning meanings and intentions.
In the evening Ethan Brown was more complex, showing both sympathy to his unwilling bride and a residue of feeling toward his former mistress (An Episode in His Past), passionately danced by Sandra Brown.
Reviewing Ms. Middlebrook's biography in The New York Times Book Review in 1991, Katha Pollitt wrote: "In view of the uproar, it seems important to say right up front that Ms. Middlebrook has written a wonderful book: just, balanced, insightful, complex in its sympathies and in its judgment of Sexton both as a person and as a writer.
They are nervous that a complex narrative will not evoke sympathy or donations.
He conducted Mr. Adams's thickly layered, complex work with authority and sympathy.
In 1998, while Delphi was still part of G.M., workers at the Delphi East complex went on strike, in sympathy with colleagues at the Flint Metal Center across town.
