Sentence examples for essentially sympathetic from inspiring English sources

The rest - as Bradford's well done and essentially sympathetic account surely demonstrates- is of very little consequence.

No one, however, will deny that once again Leigh has illuminated the lives of his working class protagonists with his special kind of baleful but essentially sympathetic understanding.

And "Cold Parade," probably the most complex song on the album, is an unflinching but essentially sympathetic portrait of a lonely man with too much time on his hands.

Her chief selling point is that she will provide a forum in which the celebrity can offer his version of his story, to an audience of millions of people, before an interlocutor who is journalistically respectable but essentially sympathetic.

Natural impulse, that is, contains within itself self-restraint and self-criticism; the moral and spiritual life is continuous with it, generated from it and essentially sympathetic to it.

It's worth noting the far more sympathetic light (in the literal sense) in which Solondz presents the breasts of Charlotte Rampling, because he finds the character she plays a woman of honest sexual voracity (she picks Bill up in a bar) who doesn't ask questions to be essentially sympathetic.

For all the pettiness and rancor that are described here, "A Daring Young Man" is essentially a sympathetic portrait.

Despite the anti-war and anti-gun themes, the film avoids demonizing the military, and presents General Rogard as an essentially rational and sympathetic figure, in contrast to the power-hungry civilian Mansley.

If Jeff, with his boyish, wide-eyed stare and blank expression, personifies a spoiled contemporary man-child, Mr. Maguire makes this essentially disagreeable character almost sympathetic.

Frank Baum: Creator of Oz" is as readable as it should be, since Rogers devotes an unnecessary number of pages to describing the books' complicated plots, but these passages are easily skipped over, and do little to mar what is essentially a strong and sympathetic portrait.

An easy way to go with the scene would have been to show her face unwillingly lighting up with latent maternal joy, to underline how sympathetic her character essentially is, before having to suppress it.