In the brilliant episode "A Whole Other Hole," the series even turns its sweetest character, Morello, into its most chilling figure; yet as the details of her stalker history unfold we maintain sympathy — this is the show at its most ingenious, mingling compassion with clarity about the world's terrors.
Unfortunately, as written, her character is so passive (she looks on, mute and immobile, as one of her best friends is kicked to death by Billy's thugs) that it is hard to maintain sympathy for her as the movie's moral center.
Washington has failed to capitalize on the ouster of Saddam Hussein, those critics say, and did not maintain the sympathy generated by the Sept. 11 attacks.
The willful Marianne is not an easy role and while Hamill shines as adaptor, she is fine but not exceptional as that impetuous young woman who must maintain our sympathy while being an utter dolt, not to mention emotionally imploding at various key moments.
Suppose, as the philosopher David Hume maintained, that sympathy is a deep and widely shared feature of human psychology.
The boys shared a made-up baby language until they were weaned off it, on the advice of their pediatrician, and maintained an unusual sympathy of experience.
Mr. Bishara acknowledges that as an Israeli Arab he is living a contradiction, sharing citizenship with Jewish Israelis and an intimate knowledge of their culture, but maintaining a strong sympathy and solidarity with his Palestinian brothers.
However, the claim that almost all judgments of beauty involve some element of sympathy becomes harder to maintain in cases of fine art.
To combat Salafist-jihadism (whether manifest as Daesh or in whatever form), the International Community, even though enraged by sympathy for the innocent victims, should maintain its composure.
Because sympathy, if excessive, could interfere with objectivity in diagnosis and treatment [ 11, 13], "compassionate detachment" has been used to describe the physician's empathetic concern for the patient while keeping sympathy at a reasonable distance to maintain an emotional balance [ 13, 14].
An Irish captain, struggling between sympathy for Douglass and a commitment to maintain order, is stuck in the middle.
