She's shown her biting wit (joking in 2008 that she was wearing an "asbestos" suit) and displayed a sympathetic, self-deprecating side.
He has also, it's worth noting, written about feminism in essays on Ellen Willis and Vivian Gornick, for example—with a sympathetic self-awareness rare among men.
As it happens, I'm sympathetic to Self's method — my book "The Lost Art of Reading" is built around a similar device.
At those moments, she morphs spontaneously into someone more sympathetic and self-aware.
The first two find a solid role in negotiating arms-control agreements; the last, in most of its parts, is understandably less sympathetic to self-denying measures.
"Dear neighbors, friends, curious onlookers, deliphiles, crazed nostalgists, sympathetic vegetarians, self-hating Jews, Canadiens fans, lumberjacks, children of the Mulroney era, and lovers of all things 'Montrealaise' " read the sign outside the small, permanently packed restaurant announcing its opening.
Skylark comes to recognize that their emotional bond is a ruse that he has been seduced by the dictator, whose sympathetic personal self-presentation is a smoke screen to obscure his policies but he doesn't take the chance to kill Kim.
Skylark comes to recognize that their emotional bond is a ruse — that he has been seduced by the dictator, whose sympathetic personal self-presentation is a smoke screen to obscure his policies — but he doesn't take the chance to kill Kim.
Typically cast as a "woman who is supportive, sympathetic or self-effacingly funny," Kavner grew to dislike playing such roles.
Many of Kavner's roles have been described by New York Times writer Hilary de Vries as a "woman who is supportive, sympathetic or self-effacingly funny".
"She was elegant, evasive and seductive," he recalls of her younger self, "sympathetic and caring without being emotionally available".
