Sentence examples for made sympathetic from inspiring English sources

"[Javid] has already made sympathetic noises about getting rid of or slashing the licence fee.

Russia has made sympathetic signals but has resisted committing itself to anything but token cuts.

Only John Kasich has made sympathetic noises – and he was polling a distant fourth in Florida as primary day dawned.

And I made sympathetic noises when my son's teacher explained that "it's helpful for those pupils who struggle to take in lots of facts".

"I don't admire the ideals of the hero," Mr. Kerr told The New York Post, referring to statements Lindbergh had made sympathetic to Nazi Germany before America's entry in World War II.

In true auteurist style, Chabrol's films worked through repeating themes and motifs: bourgeois conformity struggles to contain raw passion, those pursuing horrific courses are made sympathetic, often in situations involving characters named Charles, Paul and Helene.

We make sympathetic faces.

Ministers from some countries went even further, making sympathetic noises about Russian claims of secret American involvement in the Georgian war.

I felt it my duty to make sympathetic Republican characters but I couldn't get past my own anger at everything that has been done".

Imaginative sympathy isn't a quality that the director earns through making sympathetic characters but through the force of her or his own character.

TERRY ZWIGOFF -- You could argue that they're all about outsiders and misfits and underdogs and generally unsympathetic characters whom I find sympathetic, or at least drive to make sympathetic.