Sentence examples for flash of empathy from inspiring English sources
Another trick Charles uses to soften the blow of the demands to come is a flash of empathy.
Albeit in fragmented fashion, they capture Nixon in all his complexity: lonely, vindictive and deceitful, gauche and insecure to the point of paranoia, yet also displaying the odd flash of empathy, and an unarguable if perverse strategic brilliance.
He's still the same Jim Davidson whom we exiled to Dubai for his uncomfortable views on everything that doesn't happen to be a straight white man, but he's shown flashes of empathy and, it must be said, he dresses quite well.
A striking aspect of McCullin's work, aside from its compositional brilliance, is that it is not simply ice-cold and detached, but warmed through with flashes of empathy for its subject matter: Harold Evans, his editor at The Sunday Times, used to call him "a conscience with a camera".
That flash of consideration; those seconds of empathy: ruthlessly and efficiently purged by a brain keen to move on to the next task, albeit usually something mundane, such as "hurry up, you need to get home – the football starts at 7.30pm".
There would be someone who was connected to me in a way no one else had ever been". Insights such as this one are not surprising; rather, they confirm what a reader might imagine to be true, eliciting flashes of recognition and empathy.
I had professional knowledge and had identified his sticking to routines, obsessive interests, flashes of anger that occasionally appeared from nowhere, his aversion to bright lights, problems with socialising, lack of empathy, selfishness.
The eyes flash anger, empathy, hurt.
