Senator McCain, though convincingly played by Mr. Harris, is a secondary character, decent and sympathetic to his running mate's plight but preoccupied with his own problems.
The official television news shows have been unusually respectful as they talk about Nemtsov's life and politics; their coverage of the rally in Nemtsov's memory was decent, even sympathetic.
The buildings themselves – complete with bungee-jumping platforms and fishbone-and-garbage-can weather vanes – are hypnotic to look at, and their builders, though tragically deluded, come off as otherwise decent and sympathetic: two guys who just got carried away.
Where some saw an acid comedy of American mores, others detected something altogether more queasy: a befouled gallery of grotesques in which the paedophile comes touted as the most decent and sympathetic exhibit.
This ugly episode has torn a patch off both, but many of my fellow Huskers remain decent and sympathetic human beings.
Lodge is a lot more readable than his subject, who is nevertheless presented as a sympathetic, decent chap, perhaps not tough enough for his self-imposed task.
Somehow, the great biopic needs to mix Van Sant's charged blankness with Stone's crude, snarling majesty, Hackford's decent vigilance, Woolley's sympathetic enthusiasm and Roeg's glowing respect for unearthly energy.
"My clients are bereaved parents who have been to hell and back over this whole business and they expect to be treated in a sympathetic and decent manner.
In the 1969 musical 1776 (which was made into a film three years later) David Ford played John Hancock as a decent and fair man, sympathetic to the rebel cause but willing to give all sides respect.
The only decent man around is a sympathetic cop played by Harvey Keitel.
