Still, despite Wolfe's best efforts, Foreman's empathetic stage direction, and Adina Porter's sensitive characterization in the title role, "Venus" received mixed reviews.
It sounds like a tired premise, but it's sold by the specificity and warmth of the script, and Showalter's now signature empathetic comedic direction, which lets characters be both ridiculous and fully human, by turns and often simultaneously.
But Mr. Cale's empathetic gifts and Joe Calarco's brisk direction are not enough to rescue either the meek Floyd or the driven Clea from the cramping mechanics of the musical's hackneyed and episodic story line.
It was a transtheoretical model derived from the Person-Centered Therapy, which combined an empathetic and understanding style of counseling [ 3] with a straightforward method for resolving ambivalence in the direction of changing.
There is nothing noble about Eric's mission or about the considerable violence he resorts to to get the job done, but Pearce's willingness to give him an integrity of purpose mixes well with Michôd's intense, controlled direction and his ability to blend unexpected, empathetic character moments with all the killing.
Liberals move in the opposite direction: the more interested in politics they are, the more empathetic.
As one of the many people who submitted evidence to the inquiry and having now read the report, my feeling is that the document is a sophisticated and empathetic piece of work that doesn't deserve to be "weaponised" in one direction or another.
Under Joshua Edelman's direction, O'Sullivan makes you love the character in all his vulnerability, so thoroughly lived and empathetic is his portrait of this fussy, sad creature.
Here, though, the movie weighs too much in the direction of another guy who can't commit, a tedious, trite turn for such an agreeably shambling, empathetic screen presence as Mr. Birbiglia, who's best when he's confessing straight into the camera.
