Almost to a person, he says, the hikikomori he met were smart, inventive, sympathetic, imaginative — "the kinds of kids in America who are starting Facebook or Instagram".
There's something authentically Greek, something primordially visionary and speculative, in Lee's imaginative, profoundly sympathetic approach — and that, too, risks becoming a source of misunderstanding.
But over and over again the records tell of remarkably imaginative and sympathetic attempts to combine practical help with a much-needed touch of human warmth.
There's something authentically Greek, something primordially visionary and speculative, in Lee's imaginative, profoundly sympathetic approach and that, too, risks becoming a source of misunderstanding.
But Strauss can also be an imaginative and sympathetic interviewer and packaged up alongside his A-list interviews are encounters with unsung heroes (like then-nonagenarian fife-and-drum player Otha Turner) and long-lost outsider artists (Mingering Mike) dearer to his heart.
Yeats' biographer Alexander Jeffares writes, "she was unselfcentered, unselfish, deeply imaginative and sympathetic and, until she met Yeats, she seems to have accepted the fact of her unhappy loveless marriage".
These are the very men with whom we (the Catholic laity) should most easily and openly communicate regarding the vicissitudes of love, marriage, family, and yes, even sex, but often obedience leaves these men unable to serve as imaginative and sympathetic teachers and confessors.
Richard Eyre's production, his last as the director of the National Theatre, is sympathetic and imaginative.
To achieve a comparable effect in her house, she enlists an imaginative architect and a sympathetic crew of perfectionist local builders whom she dubs the "James gang".
By e-mail, he explained that what is needed in a poetry editor "is a keen, sympathetic and imaginative reader who is not bound by what she or he thinks poetry is supposed to resemble".
