No one questions Mr. Lee or city officials' sincere offerings of sympathy.
Yet those and other offerings of sympathy had a horribly familiar ring to the family and close friends of Juan Arcadio Torres, who was fatally shot during a robbery at the store on Saturday night.
That is why, when she learned that a young woman who lives in her building was coping with a second unplanned pregnancy, Ms. Mysnyk, rather than offering words of sympathy, asked her a blunt personal question: "Do you and your boyfriend use condoms?" Her neighbor admitted that sometimes they did and sometimes they did not.
She wasn't among those whose response to tragedy or loss was limited to offering the conventional expressions of sympathy before moving on with their own lives.
It's our way of offering sympathy to all those in the Republican Party who now stand horrified at the Frankenstein's monster they have created in Donald Trump.
It was a quiet offering of memories, hopes and mournful sympathy.
She is almost vicious in her treatment of the patient, offering no sympathy, and making uncomplimentary comments about her weight, her Ingersoll watch, and her husband who annoyed her.
Still protesting his innocence and offering "sincere sympathy" to the families of those who died in the bombing, Mr. Megrahi was granted his freedom under the terms of Scottish laws permitting the early release of prisoners with less than three months to live.
The Archdiocese of New York quickly condemned Groeschel's statements, acknowledging the harm that such comments cause victims of sexual abuse and offering "profound sympathy" and prayers to those hurt by Groeschel's words.
While offering my sympathy to recently tarred victims of Basedonitis, I can only say that I am one too.
As an Australian, I wish to express my appreciation to the Americans who have written letters to our newspapers offering their sympathy to the Australian victims of the tragedy in Bali.
