I have a discussion with the piano technician, who looks at me with one part sympathy, three parts inscrutability.
But the feelings inside it would be false, because what all of us, young and old, felt was embarrassment and, on my part, sympathy for a father whose belief in chaste language had just been discounted as an unsophisticated prejudice by a famous person – an intellectual even, and we tended to like those – on television.
The decision was equal parts sympathy and strategy.
His aesthetic has been shaped in large part by sympathy for what he calls "the struggle of the poor people," which allows him to draw a connective thread between the music of his birthright and the music of his calling.
In parts of Sympathy for the Devil, Mick Jagger takes on a voice similar to that of The Master and the Margarita's devilish protagonist, mirroring the opening of the novel in which Satan, disguised as a mysterious, sophisticated figure, approaches two men in 1930s Russia, who are debating the existence of Jesus Christ.
The sound arrived in most of "Midnight Rambler" and parts of "Sympathy for the Devil": dull-toned, loud, heavy, resonant, forceful riffing.
Ahmed asked for a cot in a Green Zone trailer and was given the yes/no answer — equal parts personal sympathy and bureaucratic delay — which sometimes felt worse than a flat refusal.
Ahmed asked for a cot in a Green Zone trailer and was given the yes/no answer equal parts personal sympathy and bureaucratic delay which sometimes felt worse than a flat refusal.
This emphasis probably rests in part on his sympathy for those of his own socioeconomic class or below it.
As detectives were trying to track them down, the possibilities, at least immediately, remained wide open as investigators were working to figure out if whoever pulled the pranks were acting as part – or in sympathy with – the Occupy Wall Street movement, or some other protest group, or if the whole thing was simply an isolated case of urban mischief.
And if they were motivated, at least in part, by a sympathy for the little person who toils away in the smaller, less successful yards taking unpromising runners to selling chases at Wolverhampton or Fakenham in the hope of earning a few quid, then maybe they should focus more on trying to make sure that everyone in racing earns at least the minimum wage than worrying about a bit of PR at the top.
