Sentences with phrase «even sympathize»

And the film does make a bold request of its audience: to try to understand, and even sympathize with, a teenage boy who, at times, seems like any other tortured adolescent — until you remember that he went on to murder 17 men and boys.

And given that the film invites viewers to understand, and even sympathize with, young Jeffrey, they won't be the only ones squirming in their seats.

Abrahamson's fourth directorial effort manifests as a sincere reflection of mental illness but sadly this is a production difficult to enjoy or even sympathize with.

That, we could comprehend and even sympathize with, but there's something almost sinister beneath Tommy's incompetence and insecurities that doesn't engender much relatability or compassion.

The potency of writer / director Michael Pearce's first feature film is that we understand Moll's continuing rebellion, and we can even sympathize with it.

Given the fact that innovation, especially in the area of human affairs, usually brings much immediate suffering even when its purpose is to eliminate suffering in the long run, it is easy to understand and even sympathize with the effort to associate God only with cosmic and ethical order.

What I take this to mean for me personally is that I must come to the place where I can actually feel myself feeling, thinking, and doing what others felt, thought, and did through the split, and perhaps even sympathize with them.

Who do I most closely identify with, understand — even sympathize with?

As Willingham does, Hirsch praises Tough's reporting and writing abilities and even sympathizes with his «judgment that «the cognitive hypothesis» (in his view of it) has failed.»

In 2012, a 60 Minutes investigation suggested that schools were reluctant to talk about associating or even sympathizing with Gülen because school leaders feared anti-Islamic sentiment.

As BookPage reviewer Robert Weibezahl wrote in our January issue: «It's hard to imagine anyone liking, or even sympathizing with, Adam and Cynthia, and yet Dee's discerning portrayal of their inner lives keeps the pages turning.»

It's hard to imagine anyone liking, or even sympathizing with, Adam and Cynthia, and yet Dee's discerning portrayal of their inner lives keeps the pages turning.

Not exact matches

Since the shooting, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has expanded his call for temporarily barring foreign Muslims from entering the U.S., even though the attacker was an American, and insinuated that Obama sympathized with or even supported terrorists.

When they fail, sympathize with them instead of showing disappointment or even guidance.

But even more daunting, his own productivity and protean creativity so defy the imagination that one might almost sympathize with the Shakespeare «deniers if the candidates put forward in his stead were not themselves such pathetic blue «blood epicenes» not to mention the fact that the achievement would still remain inexplicable coming from any human being, whatever the color of his blood.

Moral maturity, at the human level, arises when one can emotionally sympathize, perhaps even suffer, with another and still make an independent moral judgment of him.

Until we experience some degree of our own dereliction from the will of God even while we repeat petitions such as «Thy will be done,» we can not sympathize with Jesus» own cry of dereliction.

Michelle Oberman, the pro-choice author of the new book Her Body, Our Laws, even alludes to this tension and sympathizes with women - focused and family - focused pro-lifers in a recent New York Times op - ed entitled «The Women the Abortion War Leaves Out.»

Even though I enjoyed an easy pregnancy, I can sympathize with expecting mothers who experience its debilitating side effects.

I sympathize — I wasn't even comfortable sharing a bed with my cat when he was a kitten, because I know how I thrash around in my sleep!

If Congress is controlled by people who sympathize with the state, then Congress might accept the election results even with non-citizen votes.

Even if you sympathize with the protesters, you might consider the Streisand effect.

Anybody who's had to peel a child's hands off a keyboard can sympathize with these parents wailing that their game - obsessed son isn't eating or sleeping for days — one teen even admits to wearing a diaper.

Eventually even Christian's aristocratic foppery begins to fade as he sympathizes with the crew's suffering.

[Latifah] makes you easily sympathize with her character, even as you're aware of the plot's utter contrivance.

It's bad enough that Tammy never shuts up, but director / co-writer Ben Falcone wants the audience to sympathize with her as well, even though she's largely to blame for much of what happens over the course of the film.

Get Out Oscar nominee Daniel Kaluuya has less screentime and even less effect as a vengeful Wakandan who sympathizes with Killmonger.

Even if you sympathize with his troubles, it's hard to actually like the guy.

Even as it profiles criminal behavior from citizens, lawmen, and elected officials, American Hustle sympathizes with its miscreants and paints them as victims of a corrupt culture.

Even though we're not against Mac and Kelly, the film invests a lot to making us sympathize with Shelby, Beth, Nora, and their fellow sisters.

But the film, with its glib, flashy tone, wants to have it both ways: It wants us to sympathize with Harding, who unapologetically tells her story in I'm - over-it flashback, and to laugh at her — even as she endures physical abuse.

«I, Tonya,» with its glib, flashy tone, wants to have it both ways: It wants us to sympathize with Harding, who unapologetically tells her story in I'm - over-it flashback, and to laugh at her — even as she endures physical abuse.

However, as presented by the film, we only want them to get together because we sympathize so much with Brooke, we want her to find the happiness she seeks, even though it's with with him, and regardless of whether we think it will work out in the long run.

It's even possible to sympathize a bit with these misguided hijackers without hating ourselves for doing it.

Even Fred LeBrun — an influential columnist for the Times Union who once called Carroll and his political friends «a blustery gathering of overstuffed three - piece suits with watch fobs» — sympathized, praising the group for «walking the walk, not just talking the talk.»

«Even though I sympathize with you, I'm still going to challenge you, and I'm not going to be afraid to make you do what you're supposed to do.»

Ultimately Victoria comes to understand and sympathize with her mother's plight even as she orchestrates Connroy's departure.

Her writing is so funny, so personal and so real; I remember picking up my mother's copy of I Feel Bad About My Neck and laughing my head off at Nora's witty complaints, even thought I was much too young to sympathize with losing a pair of reading glasses.

Even if her actions make her unlikable at times, it's impossible not to sympathize with her.

Sympathize over their recent loss (even if it's only hair).

I often find myself sympathizing, even empathizing, with so - called unlikeable characters, while I'm skeptical of traditional heroes.

3) As Left wing NYC editors have disproportionately bought authors with whom they sympathize and identify, even only a small counter-response (the effect spread through a few authors)-- will be very lucrative for right - wing and centrist authors AND their publishers.

Joon is snooty and disdainful at first and one really grows to sympathize with Geunyoung, especially when she realizes that the producers are editing the show in such a way to play up her mistakes and stir up even more of the negative sentiment she was hoping would be quelled by her genuine desire to do a good job.

Learn to sympathize: Millennials are right to be a bit wary about rising rates; changes in the interest rate will impact them even more than other generations since more people are putting down less money for a down payment.

Personally, I prefer ETFs holding REITs but as I mentioned in my talk, I can certainly sympathize with the realtors» preference for bricks - and - mortar over mere «blips in a computer,» even if it entails the multiple headaches of being a landlord.

We can certainly sympathize with these emotions, even in our modern times of advanced veterinary care.

In fact, towards the end of the game, we even found ourselves sympathizing with poor Samuel despite his personality flaws in the beginning of the game.

Yes, the notion that scientists tow the global warming line in exchange for fame and money seems to ignore the many benefits of being a published climate scientist who tows the «skeptic» line, or even seems to sympathize with some of their talking points — who are valuable, as market theory would predict, because they are very scarce.

Even if you've arrived at an assumed dollar amount for compensation, many factors remain unknown including how jurors will perceive your injuries and whether they will sympathize with you.

Indeed, it is arguably even possible to sympathize with the libertarian position on judicial review and yet argue that in some types of cases, courts should be more deferential than in others; or at least I have taken this position, though perhaps I'm just a faint - hearted libertarian.