Sentence examples for sympathy this from inspiring English sources

She starts – too obvious a bid for sympathy, this – by regaling us with stories of bad gigs gone by.

In the brilliant episode "A Whole Other Hole," the series even turns its sweetest character, Morello, into its most chilling figure; yet as the details of her stalker history unfold we maintain sympathy — this is the show at its most ingenious, mingling compassion with clarity about the world's terrors.

The imaginative sympathy this missionary's son usually showed for his subjects tended to evaporate when it came to religion (from "The Making of the English Working Class": "Calvinism was not the same thing as Methodism, although it is difficult to say which, in the early 19th century, was worse").

The public sympathy this engendered looked enough to propel him to the city's mayoralty - until he was caught sexting a woman who was not his wife a second time.

Without any particular facial expression or even a well-defined humanlike contour, the sympathy this creature elicits seems to be derived almost solely from its movements.

Shut up train I'm trying to sleep Can't you show me a little sympathy This is the only time I can get any peace.

It is enough to say that Mr Koch seizes his readers by the ear, and with a sharp pinch pulls their sympathies this way and that.

Here's Jessica Winter, writing for Slate, giving us this widespread Jesse sympathy uncut: This show has never passed up an opportunity to kick Jesse Pinkman when he's down.

While again one has broad sympathy for this argument, I think it is wrong to suggest this was solely down to the power of Wall Street special interests.

And, as if in sympathy, this week brush fires broke out in the Meadowlands, shutting down part of the turnpike.

But it clearly won some sympathy this week for assailing the slow pace of land redistribution to the poor.