But his story, like those of some other people convicted under the Rockefeller laws, included some sympathetic aspects from the start.
Richard Gere, a much undervalued actor, best employed when discovering sympathetic aspects of weak or dislikable people, gives one of his best performances in this business thriller as Robert Miller, ace hedge fund manager.
Likewise, Mohamed El-Erian, another pillar of the financial world who is the chief executive of Pimco, one of the world's largest money managers, is sympathetic to aspects of the Occupy movement.
"I'm totally sympathetic to aspects of tuning out society, and subcultures, and weird spaces of non-capitalism," he says.
Jefferson himself kept slaves – one of whom, Sally Hemings, he may have taken as a lover and mother to several children – although Wertenbaker's play is interestingly sympathetic to this aspect of his life.
One way of characterizing this approach is that it goes for the "kernels of truth" within larger, more problematic (or at least more polemical) discussions, and thereby performs a service for readers who might be sympathetic with some aspects of the views of MacKinnon or Butler, but who are not willing to accept the body of work that encompasses them.
In general, we are sympathetic to many aspects of the idea of personalised assent.
This influence was exerted through many aspects of sympathetic magic, one of the most potent being the use of language.
This masculinization involves all the sexually dimorphic parameters discussed above such as adipose tissue distribution, adipocyte size, adipocytokine concentrations, insulin sensitivity, energy intake, and even some aspects of sympathetic tone to adipose tissue [ 31, 65, 66].
I tried to look sympathetic.
