He not only drove 1,100 miles in a day -- unfortunately there are truckers who do that -- but he also competitively raced at speeds approaching 200 miles an hour rubbin' and bumpin', as they say in Nascar, against cars driven by men unsympathetic to his bravura performance.
The team, containing players far more experienced than Verity, were unimpressed by his performances and unsympathetic to his difficulties, offering him little support in the field.
Actors need to be loved, but one of Ms. Mirren's strengths has always been her supreme self-confidence that we will love the performance no matter how unsympathetic the character.
But, more than any of them except Herbert von Karajan, Maazel made his way in the music business by his own rules, which made colleagues and critics uniquely unsympathetic to those instances when his performances failed to live up to the legend.
Though the characters were unsympathetic, Philip Seymour Hoffman turned in an insidiously gripping performance as the cult leader.
For many, his performance alone, which makes an initially unsympathetic figure into a tragic one, will make it worth queuing.
Regarded as one of the greatest actors in cinema history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was reputed for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas.
Initial reviews of the film focused primarily on Streep's performance, praising her for making an extremely unsympathetic character far more complex than she had been in the novel.
The movie's biggest disappointment is the vague, unfocused performance of Ms. Ricci, an actress known for taking risky, unsympathetic roles.
