Sentence examples for sympathetic others from inspiring English sources

Yet like most stranded intellectuals, she has an inherent belief that somewhere, over the rainbow, sympathetic others exist.

Some will find his version of events sympathetic; others will find it a cliché, the inevitable rightward drift of an old Trotskyist; and still others will violently quarrel with his tangents and disquisitions, as Hitchens so often makes one do (he may be smarter than most of us, but when he's hellbent on making a point, he'll haul out straw men one would just as soon leave to the cows).

Non-disclosure of HIV status is isolating, as it precludes seeking and/or receiving needed support from sympathetic others.

Read the review Séan Doran's enterprising annual celebration of the works of Samuel Beckett and one sympathetic other writer (this year, TS Eliot) offered the treat of a visit from the Berliner Ensemble, the Bayern Munich of European theatre, with their production of Waiting for Godot.

In the postpartum period, Blum [ 61] proposed that the availability of a sympathetic other counterbalances another's inherent dependency needs, whether verbalized or not.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

Accepting the award, Saunders said fiction was about developing our ability to be sympathetic to others.

In the modestly softened role of Hilary Faye, Mary Faber acts perky and judgmental at times, sympathetic at others.

He indeed emerges as a character more sympathetic than others have painted him.

For greater reflection on being sympathetic to others who are ill and looking after them Karma Wilson's Bear Feels Sick, illustrated by Jane Chapman, has a kindly and caring tone.

Even more alarmingly, she finds that reading has softened her up — made her aware of her own emotions and more sympathetic to others.