Recent worker campaigns, including OUR Walmart and Fight for 15, have invoked this responsibility as a talking point, broadcasting sympathetic tales of full-time McDonald's workers subsisting on charitable donations and food stamps.
It might seem that the success of The Sixth Sense has something to do with television's growing interest in sympathetic tales of the afterlife, but veteran psychic Char Margolis figures television and film are just catching up to a trend that's been gaining in popularity for a long time.
To the more sympathetic, the narrative provided a cautionary tale of the perils of fame and celebrity.
Mr. Radcliffe, she added, "makes a sturdy, sympathetic center for the tale, even if the ghost of Potter past hovers in his every gesture".
Mr. Radcliffe makes a sturdy, sympathetic center for the tale, even if the ghost of Potter past hovers in his every gesture.
Mrs. Vitolo, a religious woman who had had 18 children, only 11 of whom survived infancy, was more sympathetic to Joseph's tale.
But that is becoming easier to do, as Ms. Withers found out, because courts are giving a more sympathetic ear to their tales of woe.
Set in lower Alabama, these mordant tales feature sympathetic good old boys stuck in bad situations, frayed marriages and dead-end jobs.
The Employees Unlike Ms. Sherron, most Enron employees were unaware of the company's dubious finances, and they are the tale's most sympathetic characters, its victims.
