In "A House for Mr. Biswas," the Wounded and the Wounder are hard to disentangle, and Naipaul often adopts a kind of cool, summary omniscience that he uses to provoke our rebellious compassion.
Not even these extraordinary attributes and accomplishments were enough to provoke Christ-like compassion and outrage from White Evangelicals.
And the lightness of this alleged assist, coupled with the ambiguity of its connection to his death after he'd rebounded from the overdose, has not only provoked outrage from Compassion and Choices, an organization that supports more options in end-of-life care.
Should their swift response to stress leave us coldly indifferent, while animal suffering provokes intense feelings of pity and compassion?
And William's reticence, more than his occasional show of warmth or generosity, provokes in Solo a defiant, insistent compassion.
Wedekind, writing in Germany four years before English society punished Oscar Wilde, shows us with astounding candour and compassion the state affairs that provoked (and still survives to deserve) Reich's upsurge of indignation.
Many have written about experiencing the "empathy machine" gone haywire, with some narratives provoking anger or hatred in the viewer instead of compassion, yielding the opposite of the intended effect.
It was compassion and sympathy for the suffering of others that provoked the abolitionist movement.
The immense anxiety it is provoking throughout the Western world, perhaps most keenly in the United States, is more than a matter of compassion for the sufferings of people far away.
Compassion, to show compassion".
