Mr. Gabler said that he has never thought of New York as a geographical place, but as a zone of shared body language, which can register isolation or compassion with equal force.
And soon, what's supposed to be empathy and compassion registers instead as the self-important preening of a pop star.
What they discovered is an obvious but deflating truth: little kids are like animals, too necessarily consumed by their own interests to register much concern or compassion for other animals in the abstract.
Like Chekhov and Cheever before him, Gurganus registers an enormous amount of compassion for the characters he holds to the fire.
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Shakespeare's profound understanding of human complexity is rendered with such care that we register sharply how both cruelty and compassion, ignorance and intelligence, mercy and injustice reside not just in any human heart, but also in every human heart.
If they did not understand the pope's words, the compassion in his voice registered with them.
But just as important their raw, mobile faces register the common emotions of grief, loss, compassion, erotic passion, blame and hatred that these people inspire in each other as no one else ever could.
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Theological parsing, sometimes referred to as "loving the sinner and hating the sin," is often lost on young minds that accurately register parental disgust, but little of the religious call for compassion.
And it quickly became apparent that kindness comes in many forms: from large deeds of compassion, to small gestures that might not even have registered as such on the part of the person performing them.
