Sentences with phrase «certain sympathy for»

You gain a certain sympathy for the client who resists a legal strategy, thinking it too convoluted, too costly to implement, unrealistic.

I feel a certain sympathy for Owen Paterson, he is hated and vilified by both sceptics and believers in equal quantities, along with anyone who points out that he is not entirely wrong or is not actually spawn of Satan.

There is a certain sympathy for that view.»

And now that the film has flopped, watching it again there is a certain sympathy for what he was doing, and the actions sequences are spectacular.

But Junebug has a savviness, a certain sympathy for both Madeleine (who is betrayed at last by her nigh - impenetrable finishing) and George's family (who, estranged and desperate, reconnect with one another in a moment of crisis).

It's often accompanied by a preoccupation with the position of one - earner couples within the tax and benefit system, and a certain sympathy for universalism and hostility to means - testing: hence the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail's hostility to George Osborne's treatment of child benefit.

Not exact matches

Of course, young people are due a certain amount of sympathy for the perennial difficulties involved in getting one's foot in the door of the job market — it's always been hard work finding that first full - time position.

«Lear's counterpart in the contemporary Church,» writes Mankowski, «is a certain segment of clergymen which has made it a practice to vindicate its prejudices by affecting to consult with the faithful, to listen to their concerns, only to announce with astonishment that God's Little Ones are pleading for precisely those changes for which the Listeners themselves have a deep and discerning sympathy.»

I love David as a person and have certain amount of sympathy for him, but I also feel persecuted by him.

Indeed, to talk of «substance» here is in itself misleading; for the use of that term, despite all the protests of the neo-Thomists and others, is certain to bring us to think of God in terms of unchanging and unchangeable inert stuff — and to do that is to deny, ab initio, the possibility of a God who responds in complete faithfulness and with the utter integrity of His own nature, yet with deepest awareness and sympathy.

My parents didn't seem to feel much sympathy for my plight of not liking certain foods.

They insist that the imagination must stay within the boundaries they establish for it, that sympathy and identification are only allowable within certain limits.

Credit Freyne for ambition — he's trying to make a zombie movie with a certain amount of discretion, and evoke sympathy for at least some of those who've perpetrated unspeakable actions.

Unlike most Marvel villains, who have little nuance as far as their evil intentions, Killmonger has a rationale for his malevolent acts, and a certain sympathy beyond this, that makes the film more a struggle for political ideas than it is just a black - and - white fight between good guys and bad guys.

Though she plays her part without much emotion, and she's essentially not much more than a serial killer, she lends her role a certain sympathy as a predator that she has little discernment for the kinds of things she is doing.

Our sympathies, after all, should remain with Quan, and seemingly to compensate for that character's actions, the movie wants us to have a certain distance from Liam — the character whose story takes over the majority of the story's middle section.

He's an adorable little guy that you can't help but find endearing, not to mention hold a certain level of sympathy for when he's such a hopeful little worker who doesn't know he was hired on sheer cuteness - factor.

The sheer brutality compliments the brilliant story of the main character Lincoln Clay, who you have a certain amount of sympathy for and genuinely care about as the story goes on but there are far more concerning things that hinder this highly anticipated game and its overall performance.

Gilbert & George express sympathy for the 2010 French ban on the burqa, the all - body shroud worn by certain Muslim women — a decision that caused much debate in Britain.

The fascination of certain great paintings of the past is that they don't care about the sympathy you have for them.