Sentence examples for startling sympathy from inspiring English sources

The norms are never criticized or tested as Aeschylus challenged the Olympians or as Marlowe presented, with startling sympathy, the Renaissance overreacher.

And in the first half of "What I Loved," she succeeds in evoking her self-absorbed characters' lives with startling sympathy and nuance, tracing the 25-year friendship between an artist and an art historian with enormous psychological precision, while demonstrating a depth of emotion not evinced by her earlier fiction.

The cruelty of this notion of military discipline, derived from long tradition and maintained by force, is perhaps less startling than the sympathy Mr. Eastwood extends to his characters, whose sacrifices are made in the service of a cause that the American audience knows to be bad as well as doomed.

The reflex to blame women's behaviour for birth defects partakes of this superstitious world governed by "sympathies," where the mere sight of a startling creature could prompt a pregnant woman to give birth to a monster.

It's a startling turn, made all the more unsettling because Mr. Kerrigan isn't just playing with our sympathies; he's playing with our assumptions about what happens when a man takes an interest in a young child.

Sympathy is sympathy.

M: Sympathy?

Sympathy pain.

The result was startling.

THE reversal was startling.

The transformation was startling.