Sentence examples for sympathetic quality from inspiring English sources

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".

If the real Bob Kearns had possessed a bit more of the sympathetic quality that Kinnear transmits through his portrayal, life might've been less torturous for him and his loved ones, who paid an excruciating price for the old man's decades-long legal crusade.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the context of his professional and romantic missteps, Adam starts to take on a blandly sympathetic everyman quality, but the book regains its footing once its focus returns to the Pells.