Sentences with phrase «even sympathetic»

Hayley Geftman - Gold, vice president in business affairs, noted that she was «not even sympathetic» to the victims on a Facebook discussion thread.

It should be mentioned with regard to that last post, that the contrarians» false and baseless accusations of plagiarism and fraud have received extensive airing, and even a sympathetic hearing, in the media coverage of «climategate».

Yet, it seems, even a sympathetic inquiry finds nuclear power to be an option for the distant future, if that.

On the contrary, he works in a manner so low - key that even sympathetic critics can be unsure how to evaluate his paintings.

«Velázquez, Hyacinthe Rigaud, and Thomas Eakins represent social order with sober, strikingly realistic, even sympathetic portrayals of gentlemen across several centuries.

I'm even sympathetic.

And even within those circles, Superman was limited by what many (even sympathetic) critics saw as a simplistic, anti-union tone.

It's a dumb thing to type and a worse thing to analyze, and yet somehow the Russos and the screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and especially the CGI - rendered presence of Josh Brolin, make Thanos credible, vulnerable, even sympathetic.

Even the sympathetic therapist Dr Kamal Abdic (Edgar Ramirez), whom both Megan and Rachel end up seeing, turns out to be a man, in the end, rather than the dreamy support that a therapist should be, in popular legend at least.

Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan, full swagger) is a very good villain because like all the best villains, he's not overcomplicated, with a clear, articulate motivation and even a sympathetic cause.

She's also a world - class athlete capable of show - stopping magnificence on the ice; a broken human being who makes bad choices but is undeniably also a victim, and at times wickedly funny, vulnerable and even sympathetic.

«For a superhero movie, the nuance with which the film presents this horrible scenario is refreshing,» wrote Sullivan, who praised the film for presenting «a villain in a more nuanced, complex (and arguably even sympathetic) way than most comic book movies do.»

Director Martin Scorsese was voted by the group as Best Director for his smash hit movie The Departed, while Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) was named Best Actor, and Helen Mirren (The Queen) continued her march to the Oscars as she was named Best Actress as both actors brought characters to real, and even sympathetic, life.

I hope that Prime 4 delves into Sylux's character, in a non-intrusive and well - done manner, perhaps even a sympathetic portrayal of Sylux's origins that at the very least shows Sylux is not completely evil.

It was going to be hard going convincing even the sympathetic ones that it was in their interest to join up.

The ombudsman function of the office, some say, is not being embraced enough by Ms. James — even sympathetic Democrats privately question whether Ms. James, a colleague of Mr. de Blasio's when they served in the City Council together, will ever be able to seriously act as a watchdog for Mr. de Blasio.

I and most other commentators - even sympathetic ones - reckoned this would backfire, but in the event the gamble paid off.

But in opting for what many observers (even sympathetic ones) have called a «timid» approach to income tax, the SNP has also essentially repudiated a lot of its previous attack lines, not least the regular cry that Labour are little more than «Red Tories», although a lady in the audience last night had a go by referring to «ScotLab Tories».

The organization recently branded Nawaz an «anti-Muslim extremist,» for reasons that even sympathetic media outlets have found puzzling.

Opposition to capital punishment need not be sentimental, lenient, or even sympathetic toward the convicted.

These studies are for the most part compatible with, and even sympathetic toward, Weber's general approach.

Paul is most concerned with giving instructions on gender roles in places where women are being subjugated and seems entirely unconcerned, even sympathetic to their increasing power when it happens on its own.

Not exact matches

A Stanford law prof argues for protecting women from the «beauty bias» — even if not everyone's sympathetic.

You say this in a nice, even, sympathetic tone, but you do need to say it.

Even among audiences traditionally sympathetic to the big banks, there is more and more a sense that something is deeply wrong in global banking, something that can not be settled by the institutions themselves.

This description resembles the «Black Panther» villain Killmonger, played by Michael B. Jordan, who was praised by critics and audiences for being a sympathetic figure even though his methods were brutal.

However, the AFL - CIO argues that even with a sympathetic administration, it will be difficult to challenge violations because it will be hard to prove a connection to trade or investment.

Even when he was most sympathetic to Marxism, he had tracked down its contradictions and its links to other, more liberal and individualistic, versions of morality.

Yet, to our knowledge, not one self - identified evangelical, or even someone sympathetic to our traditional values, has been apppointed to his nineteen - member Cabinet.

The report made headlines across the globe, but even those generally sympathetic to its conclusions acknowledged the difficulties in performing a study like this.

I am profoundly sympathetic to Christians who want to provide hospitality and companionship to our gay friends — and that includes friends who don't obey biblical norms, and even gay friends who have married.

In his fair and generally sympathetic review of my book Bergson and Modern Physics, David Sipfle raised some important and significant questions which clearly show how extremely complex the questions concerning the nature of time are and how difficult it is to agree on their solutions even for those who share a basic philosophical view.

Jean Bethke Elshtain is sympathetic to the strategy document, supporting military intervention on the principle of equal regard, though not all situations of clear injustice, or even genocide, require intervention.

But beyond the requirements of Whitehead's ontological principle, we can, even if we doubt the legitimacy of dialectical logic, be sympathetic to the Hegelian view that God is in some sense a necessity for rational thought.

Even Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) and Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun (1980 - 83)-- serious and sympathetic explorations of religion — aren't centrally concerned with the survival of the Church.

The study of women by men, even by sympathetic men, would never have gone below the surface of women's experience.

On that first Good Friday night it is doubtful whether any thoughtful observer, even if he had been sympathetic, would have forecast a prolonged life for the influence of Jesus.

Of course, we have been speaking exclusively to lawyers sympathetic to causes that might broadly be identified with our perspective — «pro-life,» «conservative,» even «Catholic,» although all such categorizations unhelpfully reduce the issue.

Attached to the encyclical Quanta Cura, the Syllabus lists eighty condemned propositions, and even the most sympathetic churchmen quickly realized the problem of carrying on a theological discussion in this way.

The latter is a tangled problem at best, but it is clear that among the important founders of the process perspective — specifically I mean James, Peirce, Bergson, Whitehead, Dewey, and Hartshorne — it is Hartshorne's work which comes closest to being a kind of personalism.1 Whitehead explicitly sets aside the personalist perspective in Religion in the Making, considering its claims beyond the possibility of being established.2 On the other side, a number of personalists have been sympathetic to process thought, and Brightman is surely principal among them.3 Here I will not investigate the question of whether personalism in general, or even the idealistic type, is reconcilable with process thought.

We should be sympathetic with and even appreciative of the infertile couple's desire to have a biologically linked child, for, among other things, it demonstrates an appreciation for children not always evident in contemporary society.

Much of the value of this dialogue for process philosophers lies in following along precisely the sorts of things that Hausman and I said, for these are the sorts of things nearly all process philosophers say about Bergson, even those such as Hausman and I, who are very sympathetic to Bergson and try to study him closely (although admittedly, Hausman is really more a Peircean and I am more a Whiteheadian, and Gunter is really Bergson's true apologist).

Even very sympathetic Protestants think of it as a kind of devotional optional extra.

This far you may be able to accompany me even if you are not sympathetic with any of the forms of contemporary process theology.

The main characters remain sympathetic even while being parodied, and despite working on behalf of a totalitarian regime.

However, his depiction of the nature of things has come to be considered too unsystematic and «loose,» even by later philosophers sympathetic to his thought.

And the other gospels give even more sympathetic accounts of the Roman judge.

Ejiofor says that he even met Christians who were still sympathetic to Pearson.

And even though for Whitehead human social interrelationships are primarily instinctive (owing to the «sympathetic» nature of human experience), nonetheless it requires the repetitive occurrence of inherited social activity to establish a social order stable enough to secure the continued social interaction of individuals, and therein the endurance of society as a whole.

Let us imagine such an Aristophanes, such a Voltaire, a little altered, for he is at the same time a sympathetic nature, he loves existence, he loves men, and he knows that even though the reproof of laughter will perhaps educate a saved young race, yet in the contemporary generation a multitude of men will be ruined.