Sentence examples for usual sympathy from inspiring English sources

As it happened, by the time I got to the wrecks, I probably had more than the usual sympathy for the captain and his family, since I had just suffered some difficulties of my own in the water off Burlington.

John Hawkes brings his usual sympathy to a mailman who was in the expedition of Rob Hall.

Despite their usual sympathy for enterprising businessmen, some Republican Party insiders have started to view Musk with suspicion over his quick rise and billions in government contracts under the Obama administration.

Obviously I had grown up with the usual sympathies for the home side, in the days when that was the thing to do.

There is a potentially wonderful tension to be developed here between Okri and a bellicose leading character who seems totally at odds with the author's usual sympathies.

He had seen a performance of "West Side Story" in Spanish by a local company in Bogotá, Colombia, in which the usual sympathies were reversed so that the Latino Sharks were the heroes.

All the usual tests of sympathy, natural feeling, and do-I-really-respond-to-this? are lost in the gravitational pull of ubiquity.

Illness usually provokes sympathy.

In the case of Pope Francis's comments on homosexuality on the plane back from a wildly successful World Youth Day in Brazil, though, I have a little more sympathy than usual for the media reaction.

The essay contained the familiar brute facts of the slaughterhouse and the research lab, and the usual arguments about suffering, sympathy and the 98percentt of DNA we share with chimpanzees.

This has the effect of a bucket of iced water thrown into his lap: "I couldn't have slept with her", he recalls with a predictable measure of sympathy.As usual with Mr Roth's books, "The Dying Animal" is fluently written and often very funny.