Its lack of serious political confrontation — not necessarily radical activism, but maybe passionate rationalism, as seen, for instance, in Frederick Wiseman's "At Berkeley" — leaves its sympathetic viewers thinking that their sympathy is enough, that the mere existence of the film, and their enthusiasm for it, is a mark of social progress.
Not all of the butlers were sympathetic to this way of thinking.
Bush goes on to enlist Martin Luther King, Jr. as sympathetic to his way of thinking, arguing that the civil rights leader envisioned a society in which people were judged "by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin — or sexual preference or gender or ethnicity".
What on earth did this tough, intensely sympathetic old man sit there, silently, thinking?
They left the meeting thinking the governor was sympathetic to the concerns of one of his state's largest corporations and that the discussion would continue.
She said she saw an older police officer and ran to him, thinking he would be more sympathetic.
I think about the rash of "Green on Blue" deaths in Afghanistan, where our military advisors, thinking they were among allies, were really among those sympathetic to anti-American forces, and killed by them.
Researching and thinking about this article has made me more sympathetic about teaching statements.
In all likelihood, most who phone the hot line are not really thinking about taking their lives and are instead seeking a sympathetic ear.
Ho-Chunks sympathetic to the plight of Black Hawk's people misled Atkinson into thinking that the British Band was still at Lake Koshkonong.
