Sentence examples for was rather sympathetic from inspiring English sources

Widacki, analyzing the work of other historians notes that Władysław Czapliński was rather sympathetic to Wiśniowiecki, while Paweł Jasienica was critical of him.

Another administrator was rather sympathetic: "It ought to be known that if you cheat when paying someone, s/he will also cheat you when s/he can.

It was a great surprise that people were rather sympathetic".

But in private he would be rather sympathetic about the European project and its purpose: by instinct he was never in favor of Britain leaving".

Kilmer is rather sympathetic and amusing: a montage early on in which he struggles with the first line of his new book, and gets more and more cross and sozzled in the process, is great – the germ of another film, one with its feet on the floor, rather than its heart in history and its sense of drama just awol.

Tactfully, he replied that he's "rather sympathetic" to medicinal use, assuring listeners that an independent government would do a "good job" when it comes to deciding what is and isn't criminal.

The latter were rather consternated, then, with the posthumous publication of Mill's Three Essays on Religion: in spite of the strictures that appeared in Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, it turned out that Mill was rather more sympathetic to religion than were they.

Perhaps she was just using Snowden to burnish her credentials as a hawk and appeal to the American public at large, which is rather less sympathetic to Snowden than most progressives are.

Public opinion in many Arab countries is rather more sympathetic to the Iranians than are their leaders - the proverbial "Arab street" seeing Iran often as a rather more active champion of causes like that of the Palestinians.

Having seen furlongs of big names, spread across centuries of racing, I am suddenly rather sympathetic.

However, the unchanged renin levels were rather unexpected, since an overactivity of sympathetic system has been shown in depressive disorder (for review see [ 48]).