A duo acrobalance routine, aside from skill, might compel audiences by its unique physical language – a sympathy of bodies privately negotiated and publicly shown.
That signal comes only in the presence of patience, warmth, sympathy, physical responsiveness, and a disinclination to point out how damn long you've been waiting.
Meanwhile The Guardian, previously the most vocal digital evangelist among British newspapers, has recently shown renewed sympathy for its physical product and is experimenting with a new 24-page tabloid of "long good reads" distributed via its trendy East London coffee shop.
I knew how eventually one accustoms oneself to the physical world's lack of sympathy: the buses that still run on time, the kids who still play in the street, the clocks that won't stop ticking for the person who's gone.
Mr. Sinise, a burly man with a natural swagger (he's physically closer to the Kesey description of the character than was Jack Nicholson, who won an Oscar for the role in Milos Forman's 1975 film), exudes here the capability of physical threat and an instinctive sympathy for the downtrodden.
All she wanted, possibly, was some sign of sympathy, or maybe of physical tenderness.
She feels she can have sympathy for what is physical or physiological — for an animal's pain or terror — but lacks empathy for people's states of mind and perspectives.
One feels deep sympathy for his obvious physical pain and emotional exhaustion.
The career cop merged straight talk, sympathy and a tough physical presence to serve as communal comforter in the hours after the shooting.
Factitious disorders are described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR (DSM) as psychological disorders involving the production of non-existent physical or psychological ailments to earn sympathy.
