But apparently not by most people under the age of 50, as it sympathetically presents an England they've been taught to despise.
He sympathetically presents Russell's speculations about the nature of these hidden experience-relevant properties.
Mr. Polk, who wrote and directed, presents his characters' lives with such matter-of-fact affection that you almost forget how rarely the lives of gay black men have been presented sympathetically on screen.
"Rock the Casbah," a feature about an Army unit in Gaza in 1989, is slightly more nuanced: the Palestinian teenagers who terrorize soldiers, killing one by dropping a washing machine on him from a rooftop, are hopeless thugs, but a family whose home is commandeered is presented sympathetically.
To its credit, however, this is not presented sympathetically.
Even stupid Dickon (lol, says Bronn) is presented sympathetically as a "fancy lad" wanting to please his father in battle but is struggling with the guilt of killing men.
Overall it's not a terrible portrayal of a childfree person (Mary Jane is played by Megan Fox, so at least she makes the childfree look smokin' hot), but in a movie in which almost everyone is presented sympathetically, M.J. gets the shaft.
Bonnie Burns, her longtime manager, said the hard road back began in early 2002 when the two of them decided to book Ms. Poundstone for a television interview that would present her sympathetically and clear up misunderstandings.
A professor of music and jazz studies at Columbia University who knew Lomax in his later years, Szwed does not aim to critically evaluate his subject's sometimes cloudy ideas but rather to present them sympathetically.
Captain Turner, a crusty salt of limited sociability, is presented more sympathetically by Ramsay than by Preston.
