Sentence examples for drained sympathy from inspiring English sources

With atrocious timing, extracts from a forthcoming biography appeared last week in which Mr Blunkett spoke with lethal (for him) candour about other ministers.The comments, which were recorded a year ago, drained sympathy for Mr Blunkett's predicament and admiration for his achievement in overcoming his handicap.

Her wariness and evasions drained their sympathy; her strained attempts to win people back too often fell flat.

The rebels have been depleted by years of war, and the taint of association with Islamic terror has drained world sympathy.Nor can the fighters count any more on refuge in nearby Georgia.

It's a weirdly misguided sequence, draining audience sympathy for Timothy and seriously misrepresenting the natures of both sexuality and faith, not to mention pounding on yet another cliche, the gay preacher.

That outrage helped prompt disavowals of violence from imprisoned jihadists, and instantly drained the sea of public sympathy for Islamist radicals.In the ensuing calm Brotherhood leaders were again freed from prison, as were all but the most die-hard radicals.

Sympathy for the American drained when he acknowledged that he had spoken to an official.

It drains away all the sympathy for Edward and Sylvia that the novel -- and Rossi's family history -- seem bent on creating.

A federal judge in Florida certainly had no sympathy for him after he was found guilty of a fraud that drained hundreds of millions of dollars from an insurance company and caused its collapse.

"Oh well one less to drain Britain's economy got no sympathy for them," said another.

Roberts excels at delivering the scathing putdowns this character is given but when she's given more emotionally draining scenes to play she has no problem soliciting viewers' sympathies.

By draining Earl's ship of its fuel, Dr. Frubar hopes to engender enough sympathy for the stranded astronaut that billions of dollars in contributions will come flooding into his coffers.