Yet in these remarkably honest films, Fellini created sympathetic portraits that, while often coming dangerously close to sentimentality, were always beautifully, unashamedly humane.
The play was a challenge to any writer, creating a sympathetic homosexual character in an era of such sexual repression.
Inside the computer, the officials said, was a tiny amount of TNT arranged to ignite after takeoff, creating a "sympathetic" explosion that would have detonated the plastic.
Her mother is played by Kim Wayans, of the famous Wayans clan, who delivers a moving performance, creating a sympathetic character where you wouldn't expect one.
That 1997 play would prove an obvious reference point during the eight-hour writing intensive, but never more so than at that moment: Ms. Vogel, after all, had done the unthinkable in creating a sympathetic portrait of an incestuous pedophile in "How I Learned to Drive".
He did it while creating a sympathetic story, funny jokes and an overall entertaining movie.
And Dickens, made aware of his implicit libel, removed the word "Jew" from later editions of Oliver Twist; he tried to make up for the character of Fagin by creating the sympathetic Mr. Riah in Our Mutual Friend.
He's adept at creating a sympathetic study of individuals caught in circumstances beyond their control, but Belle feels more like an hour-long teleplay than a fully realized theatrical effort.
We suggested TENS might either (indirectly) create a sympathetic response that influences CBF or TENS might alter the sympathetic tone.
Ms. Withers and Ms. Vukovic create completely sympathetic characters.
