Williams ensured the general truth came out, and the game will be better for it, but rather than prove Richards was a bully, Williams revealed himself to be weak, not worthy of sympathy, no matter if that weakness was exploited by Richards and by ERC.
Sensing this, the president took a leaf from his domestic policy book and tried to please everyone.He flattered Turkey with huge amounts of time, and wooed the Greeks with a surprising degree of sympathy on matters of substance.
"That's not a way of trying to get the gift as a sympathy gift: No matter what, you're returning this thing".
We tried to keep estimations of literary qualities in some kind of balance, though I was surprised at the degree of importance ascribed to subject matter, sympathy with main characters and what might be loosely described as the "moral status" of books.
My sympathies in this matter lie exclusively with Cameron.
It is the carefully wrought work of a poet in full sympathy with his subject and his subject matter, in all its rootlessness, melancholy and ironic brevity.
Normally this would just be a matter of sympathy for afflicted colleagues in the US.
The subject matter elicits sympathy, but the construction is paint-by-numbers schematic; each short scene over-obviously illustrates another aspect of the situation.
(Many gay and lesbian couples have children; Santorum opposes gay marriage. Where does his formula leave them?) But the matter of sympathy may be most clear in the candidates' own closeness to childhood.
(In this matter my sympathy is with the former group, if only because the latter tend to be the sort of older fans who always block your view of a last‑minute equaliser when they start leaving early "to avoid the traffic" – though clearly the surest way of preventing yourself from getting caught in a traffic snarl-up is not to go to a football match at all).
