But the prosecution had little sympathy, seeing McTiernan as someone who was caught lying and has since desperately tried everything to get out off doing time.
It was an expression that Lisette saw often on the faces of women — usually women older than her mother — when they looked at her not in disapproval but with sudden sympathy, seeing her.
The city was roiled by arrests; a friend at McGill known for his New Left sympathies saw his flat raided; the police confiscated books, including, he laughed nervously, one entitled "Cubism".
The town's reputation for political radicalism and its strongly Parliamentarian sympathies saw it attacked by Royalist forces in the Battle of Birmingham in 1643, and it developed into a centre of Puritanism in the 1630s and as a haven for Nonconformists from the 1660s.
Other critics, with whom I have considerable sympathy, have seen the Chronicles of Narnia as anti-feminist.
Some observers called the wellspring of sympathy, not seen here since the death of Pope John Paul II five years ago, Eastern Europe's "J.F.K. moment".
That human sympathy is seen to even greater effect in the portraits of two Chinese merchants, Mowqua and Howqua, done when Chinnery moved to Macau some 20 years after he painted the Kirkpatrick portrait.
It was a claim with which even David Moyes, the Everton manager, had sympathy, having seen James Vaughan take advantage of a sloppy backpass to put the home side in front after 12 minutes and then watched Tim Cahill restore their lead with eight minutes left after the substitute Seamus Coleman had been allowed to play on and cross despite appearing to foul Carlisle's Matt Robson.
Rather, sympathy is seen as an emotion sui generis that has the other's negative emotion or situation as its object from the perspective of somebody who cares for the other person's well being (Darwall 1998).
I'm sure those who have suffered discrimination for being gay, and endured insults for being a homosexual, might understandably have little sympathy for seeing Davis head off to prison for not fulfilling her oath of office.
