"American Bitch" features a stunning turn from (now Emmy-award winning) Matthew Rhys as troubled novelist in conversation with Hannah (Dunham), attempting to play the sympathetic bad boy while also saying things like "I'm a horny motherfucker with the impulse control of a toddler".
Also, the girl's maternal instinct tends to come into play, so they might be more sympathetic than a boy when it comes to helping out the parents with this chore.
But Mr. Matros was sympathetic to the boys, in part because he had spent many weekends as a teenager playing just this kind of poker game.
Set in lower Alabama, these mordant tales feature sympathetic good old boys stuck in bad situations, frayed marriages and dead-end jobs.
As JP – his Stowe chums call him JPaedo, but be careful what you tweet – Jack Whitehall is in danger of making posh boys sympathetic and Josie's attempts to make the housemates believe she hasn't been kicked off the course were becoming more and more poignant.
Stephan Adamow makes the character both attractive as a young man and sympathetic as the little boy who still lives inside him.
And here, far more than Carlos, a sympathetic but spoiled rich boy, it is the unsuccessful writer Ega who seems to speak for the novelist.
"The Catcher in the Rye" is a sympathetic portrait of a boy who refuses to be socialized which has become (among certain readers, anyway, for it is still occasionally banned in conservative school districts) a standard instrument of socialization.
May I also make a plea for the recognition of Willy Russell's The Wrong Boy, another sympathetic book about a special needs (or supposed special needs) child who is misunderstood and misdiagnosed.
At a synagogue, where he is helping a friend study for his bar mitzvah, his questions about religion — if his mother is "nothing" and the father he never had was Catholic, what and who is he? — touch the rabbi, who provides the first sympathetic, paternal ear the boy has had when it comes to spiritual concerns.
