Popular films and TV programmes have largely lacked sympathetic, well-rounded LGBT characters, often resorting to crude homophobic tropes.
People close to Mr. Bronfman said he spent the better part of the day yesterday with his family at his country house in Pawling, N.Y., receiving consolation calls from sympathetic well-wishers.
Rather, the films, most of them less than an hour long, are "brilliantly sympathetic, well-crafted essays," as John Rockwell wrote in The New York Times in 1979, rife with deftly framed portraiture, cunningly observed social scenes, beautiful nature photography and the poetic juxtaposition of imagery and sound.
Both Bolder and Helm were sympathetic as well as having their own voice.
It's a lithe and sympathetic group, well suited to Mr. Hall's brand of nearly self-effacing lyricism.
She's got to be sympathetic: as well as being very eccentric, she needs a softer, vulnerable side.
But as "Campaign" winds on toward a rather anticlimactic election day, Yama-san, as the candidate is known, becomes sympathetic as well as pathetic.
The beginning of "Die Another Day," which opens today nationwide, also has the effect of making the suave superagent sympathetic as well.
It's a remarkably sympathetic as well as alarming portrayal of a dysfunctional mother, demanding rather than providing mollycoddling, terrorising the household with her fragility.
Open All Hours, in which he played the tight-fisted and lecherous Arkwright, keeper of the corner shop battling for survival, sealed his reputation as an actor who could make comedy roles sympathetic as well as funny.
And Mylan asked me afterward, 'How come you said that I was supposed to make Elena sympathetic as well as flighty, but she [Rosemary Murphy] just did the flighty business, la-de-da and all that?' ") We feel the push and pull of ambition, desire and aging.
