Sentence examples for evoking compassion from inspiring English sources

As the most elegant power couple in a town filled with them, each took the stage commanding attention, evoking compassion, grace, warmth and love, embodying the rarity of their places in history. .

The image of a starving child in a third-world country can be a powerful way of evoking compassion or anger.

But Susan Cooper, for all her troubles, is admirable from start to finish — sad but sympathetic, evoking compassion but no fear, tenderness but no resistance.

In introducing the reader to the depths of urban Indian poverty, she is unsentimental but evokes compassion.

Shakespeare's unstoppable humanism transformed a stock villain — inspired in part by Marlowe's grotesque — into a man whose sufferings have evoked compassion in audiences since the actor Henry Irving rescued him from ugly rapacity in the late 19th century.

And however his critics rejoiced at his setbacks, somehow Pegler-down-for-the-count, acknowledging obliquely the chastisement, managed to evoke compassion: "I was a long time combing the mortar and shattered bottle glass out of my hair, and I still wear some of the knobs they raised".

Not only can they help stop the spread of the disease, but they can evoke compassion and understanding for the millions of men, women and children struggling to cope with HIV/AIDS.

On the other hand, sympathy is associated with the lack of responsibility and evokes pity and compassion.

His pictures evoke such compassion that they often prompt readers to ask how to help his subjects.

But this is also a story told in the present tense, alert and teasingly satirical about its characters even as it evokes real compassion for their peculiarly Victorian plights.

The thought of innocent and vulnerable children being sexually exploited and debased evokes our compassion for the victims and outrage towards those who perpetrate such acts.