Sentence examples for sympathetic qualities from inspiring English sources

He was also disarmingly honest and sympathetic, qualities in political life often hidden from the public gaze.

De Selby is a vivid comic invention, perpetrated by O'Brien with pedantic gusto, and the narrator's loyalty to this preposterous wizard adds to his sympathetic qualities.

In peace he had few of the sympathetic qualities that had drawn men to his father to settle issues by advice and discussion.

Rabbits, mice, cats and even bears all have their distorted images in cartoons, but all of them show some sympathetic qualities of intelligence or kindness.

It would be a challenge to keep faith with so many tumultuously occupied characters even if they were not being systematically divested of sympathetic qualities; as it is, the negativity becomes a slog.

In the process Schmelky tries on a personality change -- trading his anger for a more Zen-like approach -- but it's hard to care because the character is thinly drawn, and Mr. Rutigliano doesn't invest him with any sympathetic qualities.

Re-reading Rebecca recently I was struck by how the heroine's biggest handicap is her own lack of self-confidence and her most sympathetic quality is her own quiet, shy courage.

Bill Nighy as General of Infantry Friedrich Olbricht: Nighy was cast to give a sympathetic quality, so Olbricht would not be the "fall guy".

The piece was commissioned (for the BBC Proms) in memory of the composer Witold Lutoslawski and his wife, whose music — unimpeachably modernist, but also profoundly lyrical — is noted in particular for its sympathetic, human qualities.

In his poetry everyday subjects are treated with ordinary language but take on a lyrical quality through his sharp critical eye and sympathetic tone.

Reduction of sympathetic tone.