Sentences with phrase «as unsympathetic»

These students, many of whom were women, wanted to break free from the conservative ideals of the Academy, which they saw as unsympathetic to the new ideas and techniques of art.

Those who want to professionalize teaching are labeled as unsympathetic to the «plight» of teachers.

Even the life of the titular Lean on Pete, a racehorse on his last leg, lies under constant threat as his unsympathetic owner makes passing threats of sending him off to the glue factory with all the remorse of stepping on a bug.

Tighe had the face - to - face with Quinn in July, warning the once front - runner that the qualities that had made her so successful — drive and ambition, for example — could make voters perceive her as unsympathetic, according to the New York Times.

Kuenssberg, named journalist of the year by the Press Gazette in November, has often received hostility from Corbyn supporters, who have also clashed with other members of the mainstream media some regard as unsympathetic.

3 It is as unsympathetic an account as the Roman historian's, but once again it is an outside view which helps to put the beginnings of Christianity on the map of first - century history.

We fail to appreciate the significance of this part of the parable if we think of the elder son as being presented as an unsympathetic and ill - natured character.

The CJR previously cited the rape article at the top of its list of «The Worst Journalism of 2014,» faulting Erdely for failing to check Jackie's account against other sources, including her alleged attackers and three friends who were depicted as unsympathetic to her.

Not exact matches

A mistake here could be construed as a misrepresentation by an unsympathetic outsider.

I'll admit that complaining about the education taxes aimed at the wealthy — such as the plan to institute an excise tax on endowment fund managers paid in excess of $ 1 million a year — is unsympathetic.

To the twenty - first - century reader, Susan, the eldest sister, can seem unsympathetic if not frankly maddening, as her consistent function throughout this lengthy series is to cook, clean up, and see that her younger siblings, Titty and Roger, keep their feet dry.

He seems clearly unsympathetic to America's current role and behavior in the world, but he is entirely unclear as to what alternatives, if any, should be put in their place.

Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

His eagerness not only to form close friendships with Orthodox and Protestant leaders, but also to act as an advocate on behalf of non-Catholic Christian bodies to a sometimes unsympathetic Argentine government set him apart.

Like Anna Karenina, Hester is one of the great heroines in world literature, and if Hawthorne was unsympathetic in his estimate of Margaret Fuller (whom he knew) and her brand of feminism, he sympathetically portrayed Anne Hutchinson as a courageous martyr, and he adored and praised his own wife.

'» But it is fair to say that, on the ground of personal autonomy, he is not unsympathetic to suicide and «assisted suicide» in what he regards as hard cases.

Even when we have not participated directly in this radical shift, we have come to view the particularities of functioning in the midst of the city (restricted parking, unsympathetic neighbors and pushy transients) as inconveniences rather than as opportunities for ministry.

We have come to view the particularities of functioning in the midst of the city (restricted parking, unsympathetic neighbors and pushy transients) as inconveniences rather than as opportunities for ministry.

In my life, I've hated people unfairly before, usually out of some sort of envy or paranoid presumption... The linchpin of Christian hate, insofar as it has a theological root, is the assumption that God's holiness amounts to a nihilistic, ruthlessly unsympathetic perfectionism.

«One reason why many physicians are unsympathetic towards the addict is that addiction is perceived as being self - afflicted,» they write.

As one unsympathetic political activist put it recently to Leith (without knowing he was president of the NAE), «All those evangelicals really scare me.»

There was still indeed a majority of representatives, conservative and more or less unsympathetic to religious change as such, or to any change opposed by Pope and Emperor.

But it does lie within our capacity at least to challenge the dogmas of scientific materialism that rule out any point of contact between our myths of hope and the apparently unsympathetic world of nature that is often presented to us as the necessary consequent of a scientific approach to reality.

Unsympathetic defendant or not, as a breastfeeding mother, I find this case unsettling.

The cumulative destruction of that era, birthed Obasanjo's delusion of grandeur, Umaru Yar» Adua's tragic power captivity and Jonathan, as Nigeria's unsympathetic undertaker, led to the meltdown that made the Buhari second coming inevitable.

He is, however, fed up with Labour attacking him as the figurehead of a reactionary clique, funded by shadowy financiers with offshore accounts, generally unsympathetic to the interests of ordinary Britons — the «same old Tories», in other words.

Appearing outside City Hall, the two Latinas savaged Mr. Sanders as historically unsympathetic and even hostile to Latinos, and a poor choice for Hispanic voters in the April 19 New York primary.

At trial, which was more like a bad soap opera, the senior Skelos came off as arrogant, nasty, willing to abuse his office repeatedly to steer jobs and money to his son — but oddly enough, not entirely unsympathetic.

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

Do you want to come across as a friendly, approachable person or someone miserable, strange or unsympathetic?

She is about as unlikable and unsympathetic as you can get, unless you consider Mr. Kingsley's cold, calculated style equally unsympathetic.

Just as Michonne is hardened and unsympathetic, you'll meet lots of new characters and learn of their troubles and motivations, but you probably won't care.

While Paul Bettany deals well with Darwin's loss of faith, Jennifer Connelly has an impossible task as his extremely chilly and devout wife Emma, a poorly written and entirely unsympathetic character.

In addition to starring in the football exposé North Dallas Forty (1979), Nolte contributed to its screenplay, written by Peter Gent.Showing a marked preference for unusual and difficult films, it was not long before Nolte became known as a well - rounded actor who brought realism, depth, and spirit to even his most offbeat or even unsympathetic roles.

Greg Kinnear gives a good performance, but he also kind of makes Robert Kearns look a bit unsympathetic as well.

Interestingly, even the husband is not painted in a completely unsympathetic light, coming off as that jealous and quick - tempered man whose life is never quite as good as he feels it should be, taking it out on his wife.

As directed by John Cameron Mitchell, in a style much less outrageous than in his previous «Hedwig and the Angry Inch» and «Shortbus», «Rabbit Hole» is full of sentiment without being sentimental, it's not afraid to make its characters seem unsympathetic.

Jude Law shows much greater depth as Karenin and is not unsympathetic as a cuckold doing what he can to salvage his pride in an unforgiving society.

Instead, Duran is depicted as maybe the most unsympathetic on - screen boxer in recent memory, and I give the film extra points for that approach.

One of the most intelligent films made about a writer who is also a chauvinist pig, an unsympathetic character — as well as, surprisingly, someone we care about.

Reeling from a terrifying assault that has left him physically injured and psychologically shattered, nineteen - year - old Brad Land must also contend with unsympathetic local police, parents who can barely discuss «the incident» (as they call it), a brother riddled with guilt but unable to slow down enough for Brad to keep up, and the feeling that he'll never be normal again.

The film makes a wise choice to give every character a hint of humanity, including the supremacists, as this could have otherwise been a very unsympathetic batch of characters to follow.

Much of the film is spent closely following Lorna, her unsympathetic nature gradually softening as it becomes more evident that she is a victim of her circumstances, and that the chances of her plan coming off are slim indeed.

If Downey believes in the project as much as he has been indicating in promoting this film, he has a funny way of showing it in this unsympathetic turn.

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The film is set in present time, but the Cold War - era ambiance fills each scene with an unsympathetic and disconnected quality that's as thick as the snow in a Moscow winter.

LMD: It's interesting balance that Ayano - san has to walk because depending on the viewer, Moroboshi can be viewed as sympathetic or unsympathetic.

Virginia Madsen is most unsympathetic as Red's mother; Lukas Haas, miscast as a village pastor, has way too many suspicious reaction shots to make him a viable suspect; and Oldman channeling Vincent Price in «The Masque of Red Death»?

Though he comes across as a mild sociopath at times (like in one scene where he matter - of - factly tells Phil that he wants to rip open his antique grandfather clock to see how it works), Gyllenhaal imbues Davis with enough charisma that he turns an otherwise unsympathetic character into someone whose erratic behavior is understandable, if not completely relatable.

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