Sentence examples for sympathetic question from inspiring English sources
At one point, some observers may have sensed the Bush lawyer being lobbed a rhetorical lifeline in the form of a sympathetic question from a majority member of the court's initial 5-to-4 decision to hear the case.
He asked sympathetic questions about being married to a psychiatrist.
Intelligent, sympathetic questions are often asked; genuine insight sometimes emerges in reply.
Holbrooke spent an intense hour listening to their stories and asking sympathetic questions.
There's a reason that President Obama decided to broadcast his meeting with college students on the Internet on Tuesday night, taking sympathetic questions by way of Facebook and Skype and Twitter.
So, in sum, she went on a network that pays her to be a pundit and was asked sympathetic questions by a guy who obviously is totally in her corner.
A beginning murmur of modest promises; shrugged evasive responses to awkward questions; emphatic responses to sympathetic questions, signalled by forceful gestures; the whole decorated by self-deprecating family humor — in this case, Dad jokes and husband jokes on the Obama model, clearly indicated by bright, sheepish gestures toward the candidate's spouse.
After some sympathetic questions from a couple of editors, Hitchen sprang to his feet to ask why the South African government should think of freeing a terrorist rather than negotiating a deal with the Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who had split from the ANC and was generally regarded as an apartheid government collaborator.
Starting with topics like Iraq, Sawyer (Kristen Wiig) asks Cheney Darrell Hammondd) increasingly irrelevant, sympathetic questions.
When my wife calmed her down with a cup of tea and sympathetic questions, she told us a remarkable story.
A number of reviewers, even some sympathetic ones, questioned the possibility of extending the theory to account for the evolution of those characteristics that differentiate humans from their nearest relatives.
