Sentences with phrase «by unsympathetic»

Failure to adequately consider these issues may result in counsel being later confronted by an unsympathetic interpretation of his or her agreement, not to mention by an unhappy client as well.

Shannon is a cruel and effective villain, the real monster of the film no doubt but one motivated by unsympathetic superiors and caged sexual deviance.

A study has revealed how former Armed Forces personnel can get ignored and mistreated by an unsympathetic social security system.

Civil liberties advocates feared that an I.D. card program open to those lacking other kinds of paperwork could, if seized by unsympathetic federal authorities, become a deportation database.

«But for too many people country life is challenging and urgent action is vital to stop villages dying and our market towns being wrecked by unsympathetic development.»

Similarly, David Hay, with another collaborator, Rebecca Nye, has established that children are naturally spiritual — even if this can be neutralised in them by unsympathetic adults!

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

Another type he sees often is the middle manager whose job frustration or insecurity — caused by an unsympathetic boss or work overload — keeps him tossing till near dawn.

Not exact matches

The portrayal of Whitehead even in fun, by contrast, is uninformed to the point of total ignorance, wholly unsympathetic, and altogether unfaithful to every scrap of genuine evidence and testimony we possess regarding his biography or the experiences of his numerous colleagues and students, including Russell.

Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, Norbrook is not unsympathetic to the argument that Milton's work was importantly influenced by his republican propensities and his hostility to the restored monarchy.

In theory, they can have their own married priests, parishes and bishops - and they will be free of liturgical interference by liberal Catholic bishops who are unsympathetic to their conservative stance.

He was wrong about married bishops, but dead right to home in on the fact that those within the ordinariates «will be free of liturgical interference by liberal Catholic bishops who are unsympathetic to their conservative stance».

However, Cardinal Campeggio was a seasoned and persevering diplomat, and was able, subsequent to the Diet, to gain a definite advantage by gathering together the rulers unsympathetic to the reformers and getting them to sign a text forming the League of Ratisbon (7 July 1524), which was to promote reform of the Church within the papal tradition.

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.

It would please the fans, and it makes the Rangers look like an organization that isn't run by craven and unsympathetic malcontents.

Negative comments included midwives being «harsh», «unsympathetic», and «irritated by my crying», «talking over me,» «nervous, consulting others all the time».

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.

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.

A wholly unsympathetic character during his trial, Silver got nailed for 12 years for being too lawyerly by half.

Many of the 2500 members around the world have been ignored or dismissed by doctors who are either unsympathetic or unaware of possible treatments.

I didn't find him unsympathetic, however: he certainly doesn't deserve any of the terrible stuff that happens to him (except maybe getting hit in the head with the lollipop thrown by Christopher Johnson Jr).

But other sections drag, and the flick is hindered by a mediocre script and unsympathetic characters.

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.

Filmmaker Carl Tibbetts, working from a screenplay cowritten with Janice Hallett, has infused Retreat with an almost excessively deliberate pace that proves problematic right from the outset, with the movie's hands - off atmosphere exacerbated by Newton's cold, oddly unsympathetic performance (ie she seems to actively hate her own husband).

Instead Dark Blue is built on lazy contrivances, sometimes grindingly slow and populated by almost uniformly unsympathetic characters.

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.

Robbie also accomplishes something truly impressive by portraying a heretofore - unsympathetic character; and making many in the audience have a degree of empathy for Harding while not whitewashing her more unsympathetic character traits.

Instead, it fulfills the promise of its title by offering up a boring, lifeless story, fills it with dull, unsympathetic characters, and then keeps the thrills to an absolute...

Instead, it fulfills the promise of its title by offering up a boring, lifeless story, fills it with dull, unsympathetic characters, and then keeps the thrills to an absolute minimum.

As suavely played by Gerard Butler, Clyde proves to be an increasingly - unsympathetic cross of Hannibal Lecter and Paul Kersey, the obsessed protagonist played by Charles Bronson in the Death Wish franchise.

When a new and unsympathetic witch (Imelda Staunton) assumes control of the magical school, Harry and his pals (Emma Watson and Rupert Grint) rebel by forming The Order of the Phoenix.

At the point of departure, we find Joe (Caine) in the midst of complaining to an unsympathetic loan officer (Josh Pais) about Williamsburg Savings» impending foreclosure on his home when the place is suddenly held - up by a gang of masked men.

She was adept at maneuvers on the tricky three - way territory occupied by the union, the city, and the legislature upstate in Albany, which is often unsympathetic to the state's southern metropolis.

Apparently written by someone in Birmingham to a contact in Bradford last year, the undated and unsigned document proposed a co-ordinated effort of installing governors and replacing staff - including head teachers - who were unsympathetic to Muslim doctrines.

It's trapped forever at the airport where it will be driven by a hundred different people in hi - vis vests, all of whom will subject it to an unsympathetic ragging in first, a graceless thump into second and then a grim trundle at 20 over to Gate 37, where they'll perform an emergency stop before leaping out, carelessly slamming the door onto the seatbelt clasp as they go.

And frankly, I've been of mixed minds about entrusting my stories to Hollywood anyway, knowing how the film industry mangles so many book adaptations — and also knowing that the Politically Incorrect themes of my novels might be twisted by philosophically unsympathetic producers, screenwriters, and directors.

You stand on the sidewalk stymied by a map, and before any unwired Samaritan stops, large numbers of the oblivious and the unsympathetic sweep past.

Although today's general audiences may carry romanticized and somewhat outdated myths about what artists are like in their studios, I think they may ultimately be unsympathetic to or even bored by the intellectual and emotional fierceness exemplified in this superb play.

However, many young artists, influenced by modern European developments, felt that the Academy's instruction was too conservative and unsympathetic to their new ideas about art.