Every sympathetic character hits one note over and over, but Mr. Gray has the instincts of an entertainer, and the rapport his actors have established is persuasive enough to distract you from the formulaic aspects of the drama.
We'll be delving into insights never before possible with every heartbeat and every sympathetic response, contributing data to new correlations and building a higher resolution of not only human health, but also human behavior and biological response.
The most visible pro-reform alliance, the US Justice Action Network, was quick to celebrate every sympathetic op-ed as a triumph.
She is an angular beauty and in every way sympathetic but, in character, talks with injured defiance.
"Almost every individual was sympathetic to my reports concerning the Jews," Mr. Karski said.
Clay Davis's oleaginous funding tricks, Ziggy Sobotka's desperation to be taken seriously, The Greek's urbane ruthlessness, Landsman's acute balancing act between good police and bad bureaucrat in homicide, Brother Mouzone, Gus, Randy, Rawls, Beadie … even the "minor" characters are every bit as sympathetic and sketched out as the "major" ones.
"Now Chen's news is in the newspapers every day — some are sympathetic, but more are simply annoyed, as they feel a disgraced politician and convicted criminal ought not to make such nonstop political moves," Mr. Chiang said.
Every few months, luthiers sympathetic to the project would visit to fix instruments and pass lessons on to Mr. Shelaldeh, giving him the kind of personal attention the average violin restoration student would not normally receive.
There has never been a novel more sympathetic to every weird thing people do to make themselves happy, from preparing a mutton kidney to eating a gorgonzola sandwich, to singing aloud "Love's Old Sweet Song," to "worshiping at that altar where the back changes name," one of many, many descriptions of backsides and things people do to other people while on all fours.
When I spoke to him afterwards, he didn't reckon so, arguing that the world is full of adult things, and children deal with them every day – guided by sympathetic, supportive adults, on hand to help them make sense of it all.
"No one thought he could be sympathetic, and every single financier on the planet turned it down.
