Mr. Fraser isn't particularly sympathetic, if sympathy requires giving up on Abilene.
"They realized that more than sympathy was required".
Genuine sympathy would require a meaningful shift in the President's rhetoric and policy toward Syrian refugees.
Her characters, hapless and accident-prone though they are, somehow don't seem to require sympathy.
Acting may be alchemy, but creating sympathy, he said, requires merely the right mix of facial and cranial hair.
It requires sympathy: the book's first words extol the feelings in every person that "interest him in the fortune of others".
The memoir form, even when fictional -- often it's hard to tell whether this is fiction disguised as reality or reality disguised as fiction -- generally requires sympathy for the narrator's voice, if not for the narrator.
It requires sympathy with the trauma of writers who witnessed the devastation of their familiar landmarks, for whom the new world conjured into being by their great leaders remained agonisingly meaningless, denuded of the consolations of tradition and heaving with the tawdry illusions of modernity.
This sympathy in turn requires various kinds of correction, provided by adopting "some steady and general points of view" (T III.3.1 581-2), which Hume illustrates through his version of the transition from the state of nature to full-blown society.
"We as a society look at autism as a disability that requires sympathy, instead of a diversity that can be valuable in the workplace".
Without a capacity for sympathy and imagination beyond any required by a physicist, there is no vision of either past or present, neither of others nor of ourselves" (1978b, 135 6).
