Mr. Hoffman has, in press materials, invoked the spirit of Chekhov, but instead of the stringent, sympathetic intelligence that Chekhov would have brought to this material, there is bombast and grandiosity.
The father said one victim went to school officials with complaints about Mr. Barniak before his arrest in November 2000 and, instead of receiving a sympathetic hearing, was told that her allegations against Mr. Barniak could ruin his career.
Instead of being a sympathetic medical investigator he has to become a ruthless real-life detective as his professional reputation is brought into question and malevolent forces threaten to destroy his world.
Instead of getting a sympathetic ear, they now have to accept my £5 pills for £15, all while I'm being a gruff, ungrateful bastard.
There were no howls of sympathetic outrage; instead I continued to receive their polite attention.
Being critical of black men, instead of being supportive and sympathetic, is often viewed as adding to the problems of black men.
Instead of being dismissive, she's sympathetic.
Instead, according to historian H. Wayne Morgan, Americans reacted with "a wave of sympathetic understanding," sending in nickels and dollars to cover the debt.
Showtime's "Queer as Folk" is brummy to its core, and that makes it exploitive rather than merely explicit, salacious rather than sympathetic and pandering instead of persuasive.
As a participant in an experimental youth justice initiative, he is working out a nine-month sentence for aggravated burglary as a guest in the home of a warmly sympathetic foster parent, instead of being locked up in a young offenders institution (YOI).
