It was easy to sympathize with the president and the mess she'd inherited.
It was easy to admire much of what followed, as the merchant transformed himself into the Messenger of God, easy to sympathize with his persecution, and to respect his rapid evolution into a respected lawgiver, an able ruler, and a skilled military leader.
It is easy to sympathize with businesses small and large, many of whom are barely making ends meet in our tough economic climate.
To be fair, it has to be tough trying to write when the underlying question on every page is "What is Mick/Axl/Ozzy really like?" So it's easy to sympathize with the Police drummer Stewart Copeland and the E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons, both clearly smart guys who are struggling with a way to write something beyond the standard rock bio.
It's a shift between external conflicts, which are easier for viewers to monitor, and internal conflicts, which are less easy to follow -- unless clearly signposted by the writers -- and less easy to sympathize with as viewers develop a "get over it" mentality towards the characters (see: House and Buffy season six and seven).
It's easy to sympathize, considering the months of criticism that he and the intelligence agencies are about to endure -- from a highly negative Senate Intelligence Committee report that Mr. Tenet received this week, from the 9/11 commission's report and from an update expected this summer from Mr. Tenet's own investigator in Iraq on the failure to find weapons of mass destruction.
It's easy to sympathize with the person serving you a burger and fries once you learn about their low pay and poor working conditions, DeVault said.
An outsider might find it easy to sympathize with Rousseff-the-victim, who was more high-minded and less tainted than most of her accusers and whose aim in office seemed genuinely to be improving the lot of her countrymen, especially those from poorer communities.
While it's easy to sympathize with his plight, he has much to lose, at home and abroad, by cracking down with force.
When Mrs. Labrette, Jerry's mentor (and something else to him, as we discover in a fourth-quarter plot twist), finds it hard to "believe most of what she was seeing and hearing" about the shooting, it's easy to sympathize with her; neither can we.
