Sentence examples for of empathy failures from inspiring English sources

These kinds of empathy failures are pretty normal.

The comedian's vile insult, the punch at a bus-stop, the schoolboy mockery of wheelchair-users are all failures of empathy – failures to see the people who are actually there.

That fear is a failure of empathy, a failure that haunts the powerful story "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried".

Indeed, glibness, superficial charm, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, manipulative behavior, lack of remorse or guilt, shallow affect, lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility describe well the original prototype of a psychopathic person provided by Cleckley [ 1].

Comments, meanwhile, that people should "quit being so sensitive" or "get over it" signal an absence of empathy and a failure of imagination.

He has shown a lack of empathy and a failure to see or admit mistakes.

The net result of this social conditioning is the decline of empathy and a failure to recognize that we're all one, bound together.

The main failure of the poem is a failure of empathy and certain assumptions the writer makes of the reader.

Swedes have an admirable capacity to blame themselves for failures of empathy.

The brilliant, painfully ironic twist is that Billy becomes a born-again militant, rejecting both speech and family, at the precise time that Sylvia is beginning to resist the hierarchical community with its snobberies (only those deaf from birth are truly kosher) and its ideologically driven failures of empathy (you aren't allowed to mourn, as Sylvia does, the loss of any residual hearing).

"It's a failure of empathy or of introspection.