Sentences with phrase «eliciting sympathy with»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.