Sentence examples for sympathetic without from inspiring English sources

The characters are all sympathetic without being entirely pleasant.

These tribulations have earned Boehner press coverage that's sympathetic without being particularly respectful.

Poised between the last days of whitewash and the current vogue for destructive biography, it was intimate and sympathetic without being uncritical.

His incongruous quotations from Open University philosophy modules, his pronouncements on the "village" habits of his fellow Bangladeshis, his sociological explanations of British culture: these all become sympathetic without ceasing to be absurd.

And McQueen, with Doot's help, is an excellent travelling companion – enthusiastic, interested and sympathetic without being all head-to-one side, hand-wringy, I-feel-your-pain worthy, if you know what I mean.

"Golding deserves rediscovery, and if he gets it, then this biography – sympathetic without being idolatrous, detailed without becoming boring, learned, witty, insightful and humane: a model of its kind – will be in large measure responsible," Robert Harris declared in the Sunday Times, reviewing John Carey's William Golding.

"Be careful and sympathetic first without being dismissive".

For each he becomes the sympathetic companion without whom life would be too cruel to bear.

She can't even receive sympathetic platitudes without hearing the truth behind them.

Mr. Blackmun provided a sympathetic ear without joining in the debates that engaged Judge Burger or matching his invective.

It is understood that Werritty claims that his work, including his multiple global trips, was funded by ideologically sympathetic philanthropists, without any direct connection to specific defence contracts.