Sentence examples for false sympathy from inspiring English sources

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"Awwww," the crowd groaned in false sympathy.

"I do know," Jeb said gravely, his thick lips trembling in false sympathy.

It is also typically rife with false sympathy and unconvincing parallels between the life of the author and his or her tragic subjects.

When, in a gesture of false sympathy, he holds out his hand, Ding, who gets around in "a 1960s black and obstinate, clunky Grand Defense bicycle," notes its "softness... like dough".

Meanwhile the glove factory cannot sustain itself in a ruined and anarchic Newark and reluctantly he moves it to Puerto Rico, and later to the Philippines.Philip Roth writes beautifully, and without false sympathy, about all that Swede Levov stands for but his daughter rejects.

But what bothers me more is the false sympathy that's present because of it.

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"The damage inflicted by President Trump's naivete, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate," McCain said in a statement issued by his office.

McCain called the meeting "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory," "The damage inflicted by President Trump's naivete, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate," McCain wrote in a statement.

The prosecutors dismissed this as a false bid for sympathy, saying there is no corroboration for it.

Most of them had little sympathy for the "superficial, false, and fashionable" Christians allegedly preoccupied with wealth, social prestige, and religious formalism.

How do we feel our way into the horrifying choices that boxed him in without ourselves succumbing either to easy sympathy or to the false certitude of hindsight?

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