The perspectives he assembles -- some of them critical of the expedition team, some sympathetic -- turn the end of the book into a kind of kayaker's "Rashomon," rife with uncertainties: Was it a farce to turn the exploration of a spiritually significant place into a sports challenge?
The title of the album reflects Dwele's attempt at a tripartite theme, but really it's all one trip, occasionally sweetened by a sympathetic guest turn: Slum Village on the recession-flavored "How I Deal," Raheem DeVaughn on the self-explanatory "Dim the Lights".
Public opinion toward the inmates, once sympathetic, gradually turned against them.
Mr. McConnell, seeking a lifeline, or at least perhaps a sympathetic ear, turned to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., his old Senate friend, almost like one brother calling another to ask how to deal with the awful family fight brewing back home.
At the Berlin Film Festival, where "Long Night's Journey" won both the peace prize and the Berliner Zeitung newspaper readers' jury award, the sympathetic figure turned out to be Eric Taylor.
Izvestia took a more sympathetic approach, turning the oligarch's worried-looking face into the numeral 9 (the number of years he is to serve in prison), but warning that further unrelated money-laundering charges could see him spending the next 30 years behind bars.
It may have momentarily felt like the end of her world, but her enormous talent mixed with the sympathetic response turned out to be a great combo.
In trying to make her more human, more sympathetic, the filmmakers turn a self-made, highly original woman into something of a cliché.
Starring opposite Jack Nicholson, who played a neurotic and bigoted writer, Hunt charmed viewers with her sympathetic and humorous turn as Carol, a single parent struggling with bills, an ill child, and an intrusive mother.
