The employment pains of the legal elite may not elicit a lot of sympathy in the broader context of the recession, but a lot of hard-working lawyers have been blindsided, including young associates who are suddenly finding themselves with six-figure student-loan debts and no source of income.
But here too my genuine sympathy for the context in which our universities are currently battling is tempered by their tendency to revert to the usual "it's about attainment, universities can't do this alone" message, rather than tackling the government on these crucial policy issues.
In fact it's not her identity that makes her a pathetic attempt for national sympathy, but the context in which she appears.
Other critics noted that "sympathy" was an ambiguous term in the context and that the word "jihadis" had appeared in The Sun's headline but not in its question.
Today, AT&T is playing the sympathy card again — this time in the context of net neutrality.
People were readier to read what he actually wrote he was broader in range and sympathy than enemies allowed and to see him in the context of his times.
Nurse Ratched's frank wickedness would almost be a relief in the context of the fake sympathy displayed here.
"Scout's major realisations about prejudice, sympathy and understanding, through Atticus' defense of Tom Robinson, feel infantile when placed in the context of systematic violence against black bodies".
While one might want to dismiss these cases as mere stories, primatologist Frans de Waal (1996b, 2005) defends their significance in the context of similar, more systematic observations of sympathy among primates in captivity and in the wild (both episodes were recorded on home video).
In the context of rising anti-American sentiment, and growing sympathy with Islamists – who, bizarrely, are viewed as underdogs in Pakistan – Musharraf's opponents cleverly manipulated his support for the "war on terror" as unpatriotic.
