Sentence examples for initial sympathy from inspiring English sources

But their initial sympathy turns too easily, and not entirely convincingly, into a shocked, insensitive exasperation at her strange conduct.

There was little initial sympathy for the 19-year-old parricide, but sentiment shifted when his lawyer, an old political crony of the Chancellor's, succeeded in getting large portions of Mansfield's letters to Ellen admitted into evidence.

It has alarmed American civil rights groups, and foreign critics have used the issue to turn a lot of initial sympathy for the United States into a new wave of anti-Americanism, while it has given China and Russia reason to call their far more egregious human rights violations antiterrorism.

Asle Toje, a political analyst, said that in Norway, as in most of Europe, the initial sympathy for America after 9/11 was "followed by a lack of enthusiasm, you might say, for the way 9/11 was exploited for political purposes".

One of the delights of Homeward Bound is how Matchar refuses to allow her initial sympathies for the new domesticity and its practitioners to blind her to the movement's not insignificant downsides.

The wrongs of the situation — pitiless crimes as well as social outrages — acquire their own momentum, and, if our initial sympathies lie with the oppressed heroine, we soon grow alarmed, and then appalled, by the lengths to which she will go in her reckonings.

He provided empirical evidence, derived from experiments, that after an initial pang of sympathy, people tend to develop negative views toward others who are suffering.

An initial outpouring of sympathy for the United States after 9/11 quickly gave way to anger that Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, had itself become a target.

Some of the initial welling up of sympathy for the family is ebbing, he said, replaced with a harsher sense that "nobody feels sorry for me when I wreck my car".

The initial surge of national sympathy for New York City and the victims of the terrorist attack may have subsided, but we believe most Americans, including members of Congress, still want to help heal the wounds of Sept. 11.

Liz's initial, also food-related sympathy for Sarabeth (she wishes she could "lift the misery off Sarabeth the way you could lift a mesh dome off a bowl of potato chips, straight up, without jostling the sides of the bowl") is the product of a lifetime.