Sentence examples for rather sympathetic from inspiring English sources

It was a great surprise that people were rather sympathetic".

McGrath's rather sympathetic portrait of the Tea Party movement was revealing, but not revealing enough.

Gibney was allowed unprecedented access, and appeared to be making a rather sympathetic human-interest film, to the horror of Armstrong's critics.

But in private he would be rather sympathetic about the European project and its purpose: by instinct he was never in favor of Britain leaving".

Kilmer is rather sympathetic and amusing: a montage early on in which he struggles with the first line of his new book, and gets more and more cross and sozzled in the process, is great – the germ of another film, one with its feet on the floor, rather than its heart in history and its sense of drama just awol.

Hosking, a professor at the University of London, takes a rather sympathetic view of a highly talented and complex nation infused with a deep conviction that it bears a special mission, whether as a spiritual "Third Rome," to counter the consumerism and shallowness of the West, or as master of an immense and enormously rich domain.

Nearly 70 years later, C. W. Post offers a rather more sympathetic setting, inside the museum and around campus.

The Chilean director, Leonardo Barrera, told Radio Cooperativa he was not planning "to show a massive orgy on the screen" but rather a sympathetic, fictionalised account.

When Milos Forman's five-Oscar triumph was finally matched in 1991, it was by a film rather less sympathetic than Cuckoo's Nest – The Silence of the Lambs.

Indeed Hull's manager can only trust those at the Reebok who remember his days as Allardyce's highly influential assistant take a rather more sympathetic view this weekend.

She refused their request to reopen the settlement, and in fact seemed annoyed rather than sympathetic about what she regarded as a belated effort.