The budding animal welfare movement helped establish a climate for wider public support of wildlife conservation, and soon nature writers similarly sought to gain sympathy for wild animals—specifically those who seemingly displayed honorable human traits by depicting them in a positive light.
His success was probably chiefly due to his sympathy with the wild tribes who live in the remote jungles that harbour the rarer pheasants.
Namely, their charges that the film makes a ham-fisted attempt to stoke sympathy for a wild and sociopathic murderer.
Jack is great, but the role is a strange amalgam of villain and lover, so it's hard to tell where our sympathies should lie with wild, horny Jack or smooth, kooky Marlon.
Extending Bad merely magnified its sense of import, a sense of import that Bono ratcheted further by dropping fragments of jukebox classics – Ruby Tuesday, Walk on the Wild Side, Sympathy For the Devil – into the song.
Taxi drivers are openly irritated by the tourists who crowd around Ground Zero with their digital cameras and their wild emotional declarations of sympathy.
His former team released a statement Friday night saying: "The Minnesota Wild organization sends our deepest sympathies to the family of Derek Boogaard.
"So in effect they're kind of a wild card factor, though their sympathies appear to lie with the former vice-president".
While one might want to dismiss these cases as mere stories, primatologist Frans de Waal (1996b, 2005) defends their significance in the context of similar, more systematic observations of sympathy among primates in captivity and in the wild (both episodes were recorded on home video).
"This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character.
