Sentence examples for enlist sympathy from inspiring English sources

It is upsetting for patients and any newspaper allies for whom cancer is a bogeyword used just to frighten readers and enlist sympathy.

Because of these two themes, Moore enlisted sympathy among analytic philosophers who, from the 1930s onward, saw little hope in advanced formal logic as a means of solving traditional philosophical problems and who believed that philosophical skepticism about the existence of an independent external world or of other minds or, in general, about common sense must be wrong.

It doesn't seem vulnerable, doesn't enlist our sympathy for this put-upon rebel community.

His Exposition of the Faith (1531) was addressed to Francis I of France to clear up misunderstandings and enlist his sympathy.

For the remainder of his life he lived in Paris, where he strove to enlist French sympathy for the Italian cause.

While acknowledging the brutality of her deeds, Lahiri also wants to enlist our sympathy for Gauri as a person of tragic emotional integrity.

Shinn gives each of the characters generous helpings of traumatic backstory and contrives a plot around both brothers' maltreatment of Kelly, but he fails to enlist much sympathy for any of the three.

"And if you feel from time to time that the television series is attempting to enlist your sympathy for a cause that, in your own life, might rank as a low priority (the perpetuation of a gigantic 19th-century house and estate) — that is indeed the case".

Invented scenes of Tess breaking down in front of Mrs. d'Urberville after her night in the forest with Alec, or of Tess skipping down the hill on her way to work at the dairy, are clearly meant to enlist our sympathy for a character who's not always easy to love in the novel.

When we apologize publicly we enlist the sympathy of the mob.

Without enlisting our sympathy, he makes Bateman wholly believable.