She published a remarkable novel, Unless, a volume of stories, and a short, sympathetic life of Jane Austen.
Mary Catherine Donnelly gives a standout performance, injecting sympathetic life into her characters (a Christian student, a truck driver, a too-young mom).
A scrupulous, sympathetic life of the great performer who projected in his characters -- sly, blustering, bibulous loners protecting themselves with a smoke screen of gab -- reflections of real human nature as he had observed it for himself.
In Mr. Ryan, he has found not only a sympathetic life story to animate his campaign — which he seized upon when he spoke on Saturday of how Mr. Ryan's father's death "forced him to grow up earlier than any young man should" — but also a politician who fills in what many see as the gaps in Mr. Romney's conservative bona fides.
In Cheever's sympathetic biography, Alcott's life is ruled by a central paradox: even as she broke free from nineteenth-century expectations of what a woman should be, she was trapped by an almost limitless devotion to her family, especially to her father, Bronson, a man whose ideals continually overshot his abilities.
"Louisa May Alcott," by Susan Cheever Simonn & Schuster; $26) In Cheever's sympathetic biography, Alcott's life is ruled by a central paradox: even as she broke free from nineteenth-century expectations of what a woman should be, she was trapped by an almost limitless devotion to her family, especially to her father, Bronson, a man whose ideals continually overshot his abilities.
The point is, I'm sympathetic to you life givers.
Drawing on letters not discovered until 1980 and not published until 1995, Esther Schor, a poet and professor of English at Princeton, has written a sympathetic and balanced life of Lazarus.
In it, Mrs. Clinton addresses her darkest days in the White House, in a way that her advisers hope will make her come across as a sympathetic figure whose life, while remarkable, has had the same ups and downs as everyone else's.
The high-energy special effects, which include flying cows and sky-diving tanker trucks, are as much fun as a good roller coaster - Saturday at 8 p.m. on Channel 4. Years before "The Sopranos," Michelle Pfeiffer and Dean Stockwell made Mafia home life sympathetic in Jonathan Demme's MARRIED TO THE MOB (1988).
The so-called N-word wasn't always regarded as being as odious, witness Carl Van Vechten's 1926 novel, Nigger Heaven, a sympathetic portrait of life in Harlem.
