Far from sharing sympathy for countercultural forms of life, or the forms of media they embraced, McLuhan made a point of withholding judgment, refraining from moral evaluation of the processes he was describing and explaining.
TORONTO -- Feeling French today is not about being a citizen of France or having French identity; it's not even only about sharing sympathy with the families of all those brutally murdered around Paris.
After some drunken sleuthing, it occurred to me that, of course, as an African, I would know about Ireland – British colonialism meant that Africans and the Irish – or, more pointedly, some Africans and some Irish – shared sympathies.
True, she might stay at home, and there would be a shared sympathy between them.
What the tight polls suggest, and Mr Stewart apprehends, is how indispensable shared sympathy and aspiration, expressions of a tribal past and future, are to all national stories.
Suffering is useful when it forces upon us the recognition that others' misfortunes are as important as our own, and then unites us in a shared sympathy and understanding, even when we're in disagreement.
Over the past few months, Constance Malcolm has watched with shared sympathy as mother after mother stands before a sea of microphones to demand justice for her son, killed at the hands of a police officer sworn to protect and serve the people.
She asked her grieving students to create gratitude lists and heard students who were grateful that their bubbles had burst, and in their despondency they still shared sympathy and compassion.
Other pupils from the school and young people from the surrounding area were shocked and saddened by the news, with many sharing their sympathies on social media.
He also noted that the public should shares sympathies for Abbot, following Hughes' untimely death.
