Sentence examples for gesture of empathy from inspiring English sources
When the smoke has cleared and a handful of policemen enter the apartment where the foreign agents were holed up, Hitchcock (in a rare gesture of empathy toward representatives of the law) cuts in to their astonished expressions, as they survey the (unshown) carnage, mouths open in silent horror.
The march for us is not only a gesture of empathy, but a recognition of our own responsibility as humans and neighbors.
When she reached the victims, she did not smile or offer the usual politician gestures of empathy but instead delivered a stern message for the medical staff.
These were calculated gestures of empathy with white voters in a state where many whites cling to the Rebel nostalgia that has faded in the rest of the New South.
Democrats generally emphasize with their constituents minorities, immigrants, students while Donald Trump has made repeated (and effective) gestures of empathy toward older white people who feel displaced and threatened by change.
This has given the work a powerfully generative force: offering to help Sulkowicz with her burden is not just a gesture of simple human empathy, like helping a mother struggling with a stroller on the subway stairs, but has become a means of protesting sexual violence and expressing solidarity with those who have experienced it.
Presumably his gesture is an act of empathy and identification.
Down to its title, the movie could be seen as a gesture of empowerment or of ultimate empathy: an attempt to see the world through the eyes of its subjects.
Despite the fact that Lipps's primary examples of empathy focus on the recognition of emotions expressed in bodily gestures or facial expressions, his conception of empathy should not be understood as being limited to such cases.
