In fact, it's lately from Alito that we get a window onto right-wing empathy on the court — and onto conservative instincts generally about who deserves our solicitude.
Protest as we should a local institution's short-sighted or venal behavior, we must admit at least a sliver of light between such issues and art's immemorial claims on our solicitude.
"We [as doctors] find it easier to say 'she failed on chemotherapy' than to say 'chemotherapy failed her.' This shifting of blame has the unconscious effect both of relegating our own inadequacies to the shadows and of making the patient seem less deserving of our solicitude and sorrow".
The Cubans, rarely the object of our disinterested solicitude over the past century, deserve and welcome the chance to interact with us in every possible way.
"Permit us, Monseigneur, of counting upon your indispensable cooperation, be it either to make a try of the measure, or to encompass our Father Ignatius with your solicitude and your good counsels.
He's played by Ewan McGregor with a gentle diffidence that recalls Richard Beckinsale in the TV sitcom Porridge, and immediately his demeanour invites our sympathy and solicitude, as it does Steve's.
Justice Scalia, in his dissenting opinion, said the majority "displays not only an improper special solicitude for our own profession" but also "the very fondness for 'reform through the courts' -- the making of innumerable social judgments through judge-pronounced constitutional imperatives -- that prompted Congress to restrict publicly funded litigation of this sort".
We cannot respect that solicitude by closing our eyes to the effect upon price competition of the removal from the market, by combination or conspiracy, of a class of traders.
Tertullian is the first to mention Sunday rest: "We, however (just as tradition has taught us), on the day of the Lord's Resurrection ought to guard not only against kneeling, but every posture and office of solicitude, deferring even our businesses lest we give any place to the devil" ("De orat"., xxiii; cf. "Ad nation"., I, xiii; "Apolog"., xvi).
"Nothing in the historical record, congressional practice, or our own jurisprudence warrants exceptional First Amendment solicitude for copyrighted works that were once in the public domain," Ginsburg wrote.
The unsigned 15-page decision displayed unusual solicitude for a death-row inmate, noting that "our nation has a long tradition of according leniency to veterans in recognition of their service, especially for those who fought on the front lines".
