Sentence examples for sympathy being from inspiring English sources
It's critical to have some sort of sympathy being built up, even if the end result is not one that you would condone.
But as Ian O'Connor writes on ESPN.com, all sympathy being expressed for Paterno's ignominious exit should really instead be directed toward the victims of Jerry Sandusky's alleged sexual abuse.
One of the reasons my review of your London show was like it was, was because I felt there was too much sympathy being extended towards your band, and I felt that was wrong.
Both Bowie's Newton and Johansson's "Laura" (she is identified as Isserley in the book but not on screen) inhabit human form by which they become somewhat seduced and weakened, with the mysteries of sex and sympathy being contributing factors to their demise.
Our own government has pledged to take 20,000 refugees but only the respectable ones, from faraway camps: the subtext being that the act of fleeing to Europe puts refugees outside the purview of human sympathy, being itinerant, a vagrant, on the take.
If Adam Smith (1759) and Charles Darwin ((1871 20044) are right about sympathy being a basic social instinct or human propensity, then the pain of someone suffering disease will naturally activate sympathy in her/his fellow humans capable of "changing places in fancy with the sufferer," to use Smith's (p.48) words.
"Expressions of sympathy aren't enough.
Deepest sympathy is extended to her family.
His sympathy is with the horses.
The objects of his sympathy are diverse.
