Sentences with phrase «elicit sympathy»

Bringing up the Sony hack might elicit some sympathy for this idea that Facebook executives should be able to delete communications they have with outside parties.

They may elicit sympathy — such as when we see news stories of famines in African nations or AIDS orphans.

In this relationship, the poor are like puppets that Garvey uses to act out a kind of morality play to elicit our sympathy — or guilt — for his cause.

«The veiled widow could elicit sympathy as well as predatory male advances.

Donald tries to elicit sympathy from Elizabeth for her father on page 338 by telling her, «It's only human to want an answer.»

Much filmed previously (by Polanski, Kurosawa and Welles, among many others), Shakespeare's infamously bloody Scottish Play has rarely been allowed to elicit the sympathy for its central characters as Justin Kurzel achieves here.

It is too easy to call it shocking, but it is certainly designed to be so and it would have to be in order for the film's vengeful second half to elicit your sympathy and support.

With such a situation, his repeated attempts to ruin it are hardly going to elicit sympathy from the audience.

Researchers noted that some women, especially those with secondary infertility, stayed silent about being unable to conceive because discussing it did not elicit sympathy or empathy.

By the very act of putting the individual politician centre stage, political fiction usually goes some way to elicit sympathy for the politician.

Jay Jaffe now describes Morris as «a virtual lock»; he's real close now, and there's definitely a bandwagon effect as candidates who get close c) gain more attention, and d) elicit sympathy from voters who don't want to be the one to keep a guy out.

She counted the cost all the way, exhausting people around her by eliciting sympathy from them, and then moving on to others.

Anna's tragic story, the terrible price she has to pay for her adulterous relationship with Count Vronsky, certainly and properly elicits our sympathy, but Tolstoy would have us recognize Anna's moral culpability as well.

At least that spill elicited sympathy from my fellow racers.

While this subject matter wouldn't seem to have much in common with The Orphanage, both films lean heavily on the bond between parents and children, eliciting sympathy with scenes of mothers and fathers faced with the loss of their kids.

«There is a theme of «Loss» that elicits sympathy for her situation and choices,» said Burwell.

A novel of rich emotional depth, Winterkill succeeds in eliciting sympathy and understanding for its unusual characters.

Complexly layered characters like Nate are few and far between — he elicits sympathy one moment, supreme frustration the next, which just makes him all the more believable.

Though Bosslet's art surely elicits sympathy — especially nowadays, as structures of meaning totter everywhere around us — it also falls short of being entirely convincing.

The tragic suicide of Rahtaeh Parsons as a result of relentless cyber-bullying in 2013 elicited the sympathy and concern of not just Canadians but also the international community.

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The result will surely be painful, but the prospect of write - downs at hedge funds won't elicit much sympathy from mainstream America.

«According to Brüning, the suffering they would cause would help elicit international sympathy for the Germans and help put an end to the unpopular reparations imposed at Versailles.»

As a mega-billionaire making more billions thanks to the personal information of most of the world's internet users, Zuckerberg doesn't elicit much sympathy.

Conversely, when those same whites become socially concerned, they are more attracted to the black cause partly because the drama of skin color can elicit more sympathy.

On its own, Johnson's decision to pack it in after stinking up the course (his full score included the dreaded quadruple - bogey snowman and three doubles) may have elicited more sympathy than it did.

After all, a baby can elicit all kinds of sympathy.

Filmmakers Boden and Fleck don't appear interested in eliciting your full - out sympathy for these low - rollers, though the happyish ending seems somewhat a sellout (albeit a satisfactory one).

Would that Cody's writing displayed similar richness and empathy in painting the film's supporting characters, who are all conspicuously placed in opposition to Marlo at various points in order to elicit the viewer's sympathies.

Depending on your own political views of Hirohito, you may or may not appreciate the sympathy this film elicits for a ruler whose minions were responsible for heinous war crimes comparable to the German Nazis.

But after a first act that effectively elicits viewer sympathy for these two soon - to - be-victims of the rich couple's perverse games, the filmmakers gradually strip away those sympathies.

It's an entire cultural epoch ahead of its time — the cynicism of Hud's «rightness» held in the trembling hands of creepy Cal, who, though he elicits the audience's sympathy, is as destructive a figure to our romantic image of the hero as Paul Newman's solipsistic cowboy.

Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones) delivers a fantastic performance as Glass, very different from his high - profile role as Anakin Skywalker, evoking great sympathy for Glass» situation despite eliciting anger for being so reckless.

The cliches start bubbling up (this job is better than digging ditches, somebody says - yeah, but at least with a ditch, there's something to show for it), and the blubbering in the toilet stalls doesn't elicit much sympathy, either.

Not that most of the ladies in this category have been short - listed for playing saints, but the squawking Ryan's potty mouth reigns supreme in Gone Baby Gone: The calculated one - liners meant to elicit audience sympathy for Boston's lower class («I don't got no daycare» — essentially a variation of Amy «I got one leg» Poehler's Amber from SNL) are trumped by nasties like «Why don't you suck a nigger's dick, Bea,» «It smells like cock,» «Nigger please, I hid it,» «Fucks yous both,» and my personal favorite, «Who's the faggot now, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.»

As a drama the film fails because Truffaut never manages to elicit audience sympathy for such enigmatic characters.

Gilmore, through the use of a very believable first - person narrative, elicits real sympathy for Mina, even when it becomes clear that her all - consuming wish for revenge actually masks the guilt she feels at her own embarrassment at — and impatience with — her grandfather.

His intense need for companionship elicited a deeply - felt sympathy from her and they quickly entered into a marriage more of sense than sensibility.

But the point that elicits the most sympathy is rather simple — nothing ever goes his way.

Griffiths» not - quite - puppets are ambiguous performers, eliciting both laughter and sympathy.

As a mega-billionaire making more billions thanks to the personal information of most of the world's internet users, Zuckerberg doesn't elicit much sympathy.