One had the sense of individuals gathered together and sharing 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.
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.
His creation of their self-portraits showed their shared sympathies across time and nationality: Painters belonged to the same culture, and could understand each other in ways that museum professionals and peddlers could never comprehend.
Playing East against West ReprintsHuda-Par is closely linked to a shadowy militant group, Hizbullah, which has no connection with its Lebanese namesake but shares sympathy for Iran.
