Sentence examples for maternal sympathy from inspiring English sources
I think it's frozen," Alex moaned, in a ploy for maternal sympathy.
It's possible that these girls feel a sense of "misplaced maternal sympathy," as Hanna Rosin wrote.
For Stefano, the conversation between Marion and Norman in the hotel parlor in which she displays a maternal sympathy towards him makes it possible for the audience to switch their sympathies towards Norman Bates after Marion's murder.
At any one time, depending on what the music beneath the sample is doing, those four words 'In my arms, baby, yeah", culled from Boy Meets Girl's 'Waiting For A Star To Fall' and repeated throughout, are able to communicate everything from joy to yearning to lust and even a kind of maternal sympathy.
A refusal to play victim may seem to contradict the activist impulse to create sympathy for the victims by showcasing maternal grief.
The women, too, seemed to consider Ggaecheol dim-witted or mad, but beneath their strict maternal façade they hid a protective impulse that went beyond mere sympathy.
Maternal warmth and criticism were coded, separately; warmth was assessed by tone of voice, spontaneity, sympathy and/or empathy toward the child.
But, much as I admire de Angelis's sympathy with the plight of the aged, I was less convinced by her idea that self-fulfilment and maternal love are necessarily a contradiction in terms.
Her expression conveyed sympathy and maternal acceptance.
