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Others - including other women made up by Ibsen - would have had more human sympathy, more capacity for imagining other people.
"The world never needed women's intelligence and sympathy more than it does today," she said in 1917.
It is never a good thing when someone loses a job, but does Barnes deserve our sympathy more than anyone else in his position?
A thoughtful editor will sometimes put the reviewing of novels into the hands of a practicing novelist, who knowing the labour that goes into even the meanest book will be inclined to sympathy more than to flamboyant condemnation.
(With the assistance of a puppeteer in a harness, she even flies balletically over the stage at one point.) And as a character, she certainly gains our sympathy more than any other.
"With your strong and independent character, with your Germanic blood, which enables you to command the public's sympathy more readily than I can, you seem more suitable than anyone I know for this mission," he wrote.
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The lowliest snail or spider, we have decided, has as much right to exist as animals that engage our sympathies more, such as otters or water voles.
Nowhere are Rezzori's sympathies more in evidence than in the novel's ribald, byzantine cast of supporting players, for whom the author saves the bulk of his affection.
Through its pro-active nature, sympathy is more complex, and speaking about his personal experience he notes that his sympathy is "less spontaneous, more subject to calculation, sometimes even selfish Instead of flowing straight from my empathy, my sympathy takes a detour through a rational filter" (2009: 89).
It's a gesture of sympathy, nothing more.
I have no sympathy any more for the dregs of society.
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