His immense investigation is a work of sympathetic imagination that invites comparison to Norman Mailer's "Executioner's Song".
His new work is all about life, and if there are dampers and de-accelerants on that life, it is nevertheless a fabulously benign book - almost, I might say, a work of sympathetic magic, as if to describe a troubled utopia might be to instate it.
A television storyteller of the premier league, the actor and writer Colin Welland was a vivid, humane presence in the glory days of the single play; despite his bovine appearance and proud Northern persona, his dramas were works of sympathetic anger, elegant, character-driven slices of life populated by straight-talking matriarchs and small-town dreamers.
At 700-plus pages, Fischer's book is no bagatelle either, but it is the work of a sympathetic writer who takes pains to establish the historical and cultural milieu that informs Mahler's music.
The case against: It might not be the most compelling evidence but it is worth noting that North Korea denied that it was behind the attack, saying instead that it was the work of someone sympathetic to its cause.
Thanks to the work of our sympathetic nervous system, the "fight or flight" system that takes over when we're stressed, when you see your boss's name in your inbox late at night, your body reacts like there's a lion on the loose.
We are, all of us, ill-equipped to solve the cosmic riddles framed by Mallarmé's work, but acts of sympathetic translation such as Manson's make the challenge ever so slightly easier.
This hand movement is what may be expected in light of work showing sympathetic muscle activity.
Both films are the work of Hepburn's most sympathetic director, George Cukor.
Compared with Roger Lewis's unpleasant and hysterical biography of 2002, Biswell's is a work of scholarship, understanding and sympathetic portraiture.
The parliamentary intelligence and security committee, which scrutinises the work of the agencies, was sympathetic to the agencies' difficulties, he suggested.
