We can offer educations that teach how all human beings – women and men – are capable of great intellectual contributions, fierce sexual desire and deep empathy, as well as mean-spiritedness and bigotry.
Revelations were not extracted by fierce questioning, but coaxed forth by curiosity and empathy.
The wonder of "Fierce Grace" is Ram Dass's curiosity, will and empathy, all of which have remained unaffected by his condition.
"When Night Falls" is a work of memory, reconstruction, and empathy that blends a coolly analytical style with a fierce yet quiet passion.
But through fierce honesty, and without being preachy, Sheff creates that same hesitant empathy for Justin as he did for himself in Tweak.
There is plenty of Bergian lyricism, but it is delivered without empathy; the chromatically saturated clouds of orchestral sound recall Ligeti, but without the fierce, wide-eyed beauty that the Hungarian master could unleash.
Various national characteristics - self-reliance, a fiercer patriotism than any in western Europe, an assiduous geographical incuriosity - have created a deficit of empathy for thesufferings of people far away.
