"Some people are naturally sympathetic to this sort of idea," says Professor Gowers.
The Economic Development Agency will be more sympathetic to the sort of things Paterson wants to do".
That is because, while Mr Hoecker proved no knight in shining armour for them, he was more sympathetic to some sort of federal role in solving California's crisis than were other commissioners of the FERC.
I'm sort of sympathetic with the wrong kind.
Given this sort of sympathetic formulation of the conservative position, critics can still find ample grounds for disagreement.
"As a shareholder I'm sort of sympathetic to the shareholder view that the industry is still overpaid".
It was the sort of sympathetic ovation a home crowd reserves for a David doing a mammoth job against an insurmountable Goliath.
Mr. Bennett has always made gentle, sympathetic fun of the sort of staid and placid people he knew as a boy, savoring the droll banalities of their speech and, especially in the case of frustrated women, imagining them in incongruous situations.
If the young actor looked to Mr. Nichols for fatherly approval, he looked to Emma Thompson, who plays the dual role of libidinous angel and sympathetic nurse, as a sort of older sister: "I can't tell you the number of times that I dragged her into my dressing room and was like: 'That's it.
