This makes them sympathetic, but not particularly enthralling.
"Because it involves kids it's easier to make them sympathetic and likable," he says.
Eight-track tapes are imperfect the way my friends are imperfect; the vulnerabilities make them sympathetic, give them warmth.
Dühring maintained the optimistic view that men possess instincts that naturally make them sympathetic to one another.
(It's this attempt to make them sympathetic that pushes "The Green Mile" across the boundary between a movie about racism and a vaguely racist movie).
"What this says is that these kinds of trips are still happening, because these groups want to influence those members of Congress, to make them sympathetic to the host's interests," he said.
Do they have theological objections to the unorthodox beliefs of the Republican candidate's church, or does their own status as a rather misunderstood minority make them sympathetic to the Mormons?
From that base, he plotted a return to City Hall, built primarily on the strong support of poorer blacks, the elderly, young voters and those whose experiences made them sympathetic to his fall and resurrection.
Though he doesn't disguise his (now, perhaps, obsolete) antipathy for Arafat, Silva adorns his other characters — the true believer, the spymaster, the lover — with enough fine thoughts to make them sympathetic.
But at the end of the day, the debtors get away with what amounts to some pretty aggressive last-minute exemption planning mainly because the amounts are small and their personal situations made them sympathetic to the Court.
