Sentence examples for distant sympathy from inspiring English sources

In 2003, many theatergoers probably felt nothing more than distant sympathy for the 20-somethings and their woes.

The trouble at the National Liberal, they say in more secure fastnesses, and tones of distant sympathy, is a political one of course.

He reacts curiously to human emotion: crying inspires either scorn or a sort of distant sympathy, anger inspires a sort of cool, lethal calm.

The early revolution was marked by cross-sect cooperation, a new sympathy for distant regions and a reinvigorated sense of nationality.

The rest of the cast is uniformly excellent and blessed with a psychologically acute script (the occasional clunker such as "Prominent Nazis!" notwithstanding) that makes them not ciphers but rounded characters who manage still to excite the sympathy their distant, privileged lives otherwise militate against.

If I offered sympathy, he was distant and rejecting.

Even when the protagonists' faces are projected on a giant television screen, they remain distant figures, remote from either sympathy or horror.

This might seem obvious, but one still needs to ask why we feel less sympathy with someone distant – it is not as if we somehow doubt the truthfulness of their pain.

Yet for all that, Violet finished a distant second in the victim sympathy sweepstakes Sunday, because first place went to the unlikeliest character in all of Downton: Evil Thomas.

This global, real-time exposure to previously distant events increased global scrutiny and sympathy with demonstrators.

These relationships: I-you distant provider dominance, I-you blurred sympathy, and I-you sorted mutuality were presented at the first course afternoon.