Sentence examples for immediately sympathise from inspiring English sources
Reading Ms Elliott's article, I could immediately sympathise with Mr Qadhi's position, trying to hold a discussion with people supporting an absurd and potentially disastrous and homicidal political standpoint because they lacked the scepticism or cosmopolitanism to resist in-group jingoism.
But it's no less a pleasure - and as our experience of reading deepens, it should be a still greater pleasure - to meet characters who are not mirror images of us at all, whose feelings we might not immediately sympathise with or even recognise, whose views of the world confront ours and perhaps, if it's a truly challenging book we're reading, laugh everything we believe to scorn.
Her new book, Daisy Saves the Day (Walker Books £12.99), draws the reader in immediately to sympathise with little Daisy sent off to be a maid without any natural talent for housework.
"The taking of one of a school, almost always ensures the capture of another," explained Francis Allyn Olmsted, a medical student who travelled aboard a whaler in 1839, "for his comrades do not immediately abandon the victim, but swim around him, and appear to sympathise with him in his sufferings".
'Our stock price is broadly where it was immediately after the global financial crisis, six years ago," said Barclays chairman John McFarlane last July, sympathising with the bank's "incredibly patient" investors and vowing to "accelerate the delivery of shareholder value".
Sympathise, but not identify.
Possibly outsiders would sympathise.
