Sentence examples for merely a sympathetic from inspiring English sources

However, any notion this was merely a sympathetic gesture of support for a beaten and drained captain were dispelled quickly enough as Robinson took charge of the proceedings while Edwards sat in silence, head down, looking grim.

Here we find not merely a sympathetic exposition of Avicennan logic as Avicenna would have wanted it to be understood, but a reasoned attack on the thinking behind alternative proposals.

Pete Santilli, a conservative radio host from Ohio who did not stay at the wildlife refuge and often wore a large press vest, was charged even though he insists he was merely acting as a sympathetic reporter.

Rochelle Davis makes Sarah a sympathetic, streetwise girl, but her enhanced role merely adds a trendy death-culture gloss.

It's morally adroit in the way that the difficult, contrarian, ungrateful Alina is turned into a sympathetic character after first appearing to be merely an unbalanced troublemaker.

Find a sympathetic former coach if Carroll is unavailable or merely taking the fall.

A "long-standing friend" claims that, being "a sympathetic guy" as well as a pretty straightforward one, Mr T was merely offering emotional support to a woman "trapped in a hideous marriage".

On the personal level, this meant that our employees would always find a sympathetic ear when issues outside the business were impinging on their productivity or merely weighing on their minds.

And Harvey Weinig could not be described as a sympathetic victim of some kind of Rockefeller-era state law that imprisoned people for decades for merely possessing or dealing drugs.

A Benckiser a sympathetic partner.

She had a sympathetic audience.