It is quietly endorsing an American military strike against one of China's own neighbours albeit hardly a very friendly one and expressing sympathy with America's plight.
(Alexandra Maria Lara plays Ilana as a young woman, with whom young Michael had exchanged a friendly grimace of sympathy in court; she is played in middle age by Lena Olin).
She used to be very friendly, even show sympathy for his situation.
And many patients aren't satisfied with sympathy and friendly advice.
Ministers appointed the redoubtable Chris Woodhead as head of Ofsted, a man who had no sympathy with friendly inspectors or progressive teaching methods.
But those two-bite chicken salad sandwiches, Meyer lemon and blueberry tarts and the like sure are tasty, and the service is as gracious and understated as it is friendly at Tea & Sympathy.
After this, they pursued a more good-natured rivalry and became quite friendly; Hammond publicly expressed sympathy towards Constantine and other black West Indians for the discrimination that they faced.
Round his quiet, friendly, unassuming authority and kindly sympathy for all comers the whole pub revolved.
"With our aggrieved brethren of the Slave States we have friendly relations and a common sympathy," Wood said.
A well-told lie, on the other hand, can communicate any number of things, depending on the context: it can be an act of war, a friendly prank, a gesture of sympathy or of venal self-protection.
