Sentence examples for sympathetic insight from inspiring English sources

Early in his editorship (1828) he produced a biography of Robert Burns that showed sympathetic insight into that Scottish poet's life.

Released after five years, he published his best-known story, Son Makara (1885; Makar's Dream), which conveys with sympathetic insight the world of a Yakut peasant.

Diet, bathing, rest, and exercise formed the core of their medicine, along with a sizable dose of common sense and sympathetic insight that amounted to a sort of psychotherapy.

Illness makes "freaks" of us all at one time or another: Sacks's sympathetic insight into the human brain, and the human condition, through the medium of illness, has heartened many more readers than it has offended.

"Go Back to Where You Are" is marked by such sympathetic insight into the complicated lives of striving artists that I must confess that I found myself a little impatient with Mr. Greenspan's interfering Greek imp and his game-playing disguises.

That phrase is necessarily vague, just because its application is so wide; but it serves very well, Miss Himmelfarb argues, to sum up a set of characteristic Victorian convictions - a belief in human dignity, a respect for human complexity, a sense of common responsibility based on sympathetic insight rather than textbook rules.

Mailer was short on sympathetic insights into this event, possibly because he was, on his own admission, "getting tired of Negroes and their rights".

But in "You Can't Take It with You" a wordassociation game Mrs. Sycamore imposes on Kirby, the puffed-up businessman, and his wife provides one of the funniest scenes in the play, and one of the few sympathetic insights into women in a body of work that aches with misogyny.

Mailer was short on sympathetic insights into this event, possibly because he was, on his own admission, "getting tired of Negroes and their rights". Still, he thought to mention that at the Democratic convention, the name of Channing Phillips of Washington, D.C. — a Robert F. Kennedy delegate, except that Kennedy had already been assassinated — was entered into nomination.

With the PRC now in its swaggering 60s, I would prescribe – to counter the excesses of Beijing bombast – a stiff dose of Lu Xun: for his intensely crafted, sympathetic insights into the blackness of modern China; and as a biographical lesson in the Communist party's energetic, though unsuccessful efforts to neutralise the country's critical conscience.

McCoy talks to many of the people from Rodman's past and present, who offer simultaneously sympathetic and critical insights into his personality.