If she falls into the feared empathy-and-tears mode, she could send everyone rushing for a nausea remedy.
Los Angeles has been riveted by what is going on in New York, and the usual emotional divide has been bridged, replaced with elemental anxieties: fear, empathy and even a touch of guilt.
We have been taught to fear empathy as a means of survival by extension of material gain.
This system of factory farming fears craves our ignorance -- but it also fears our empathy.
Lynch's powerful depiction of Merrick (played by John Hurt) moves a viewer from revulsion and fear to empathy and tenderness.
Kreamer's book explores how to be true to your "emotional flashpoints — anger, fear, anxiety, empathy, happiness and crying" — without sabotaging your career.
On the other end, Barbara Hershey, as Ann Rule, is dewy-eyed with fear and empathy, clutching a white receiver to her ear.
These are certainly dramatic anecdotes, but the writer makes the mistake of relating them with journalistic dispassion rather than letting us feel the complicated mix of fear, revulsion, empathy and anguish they must have generated inside her.
Studies of stroke victims, as well as scans of normal brains, have persuasively shown that the amygdala plays a key role in the creation of emotions like fear or empathy.
People look at me with fear, not empathy, when I tell them about my diagnosis.
Victims' rights groups and even some in the police have privately feared there is a culture of disbelief and lack of empathy among officers.
