Sentences with phrase «feel sympathy with»

«Although the donkey has no way of revealing its thoughts, that doesn't prevent us from supplying them — quite the contrary; we regard that white - spotted furry face and those big eyes, and we feel sympathy with every experience the donkey undergoes.

Even though the mutual bad feeling and lack of warmth between Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho is a matter of common knowledge and much talk in the football media, and the hard to argue with theory that the Arsenal boss will feel no sympathy with his rival, I reckon that he would rather have seen Mourinho keep his job, for now anyway, and I will tell you why.

The Welsh Tories are right to explain what the BNP represents to an electorate that feels sympathy with a party that seemingly represents them.

Not exact matches

More than a quarter of the list is made up of families like the Aquilinis, and while it may be hard to feel sympathy for the pecadilloes of the rich, it's worth pointing out that being a member of a dynasty comes with its own set of burdens.

The problem of tax evasion in Greece has been pointed out many times during the debt crisis: Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, got into hot water over the summer with her comments that she felt more sympathy with children in Africa than tax evaders in Greece.

Season Five saw him out of sympathy with Pete Campbell's fretting over the first NASA photos of Earth («They don't make you feel vulnerable?»)

The historian Jules Isaac... obtained an interview with Pius XII in June 1949 and felt he was heard «with good will and understanding sympathy»... During the 1950's, the signs of understanding increased in the Vatican media, particularly at Christmas or Unity Week; the philo - Semitic orientation of certain religious orders; the effort to understand Judaism in theology schools, and meetings in ecumenical settings, no longer met with distrust by Roman Congregations.

Westerners too, reared on the Bible with its denunciations of «idolatry», felt little sympathy with Hindu devotion and some would refuse the gift of prasad, a sweet which after being offered to the god is given to the devotee.

To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead of sharing and aiding our human sympathies is directly in collision with them; who instead of strengthening the bond between man and man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike the objects of His love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.»

The idea of a God who not only sympathizes with all we feel and endure for our fellow men, but who will pour new life into our too languid love, and give firmness to our vacillating purpose, is an extension and multiplication of the effects produced by human sympathy.

The root meaning of sympathy is being simultaneously affected with the same feeling (pathos).

Now on human level, we should probably want to feel a good deal of sympathy with him.

This determines the idiom in which the story is told, an idiom not merely of language but of thought and even of feeling, with which the reader needs to put himself in sympathy.

If you are working with known abusers and you are attempting to discern if an abuser is authentically repentant, look for signs that they feel entitled to sympathy instead of accountability and restrictions, or to forgiveness and reconciliation from their victims and / or loved ones, or to being restored to a position of power.

In the language appropriate to the higher stages of experience, the primitive element is sympathy, that is, feeling the feeling in another and feeling conformably with another.

At the same time, I have felt a certain sympathy with more traditional Christians who have argued that many liberals have undersold one» vital element of the faith an actual, loving God.

Since the nature and function of literature as I saw it was to acquaint us with the «felt» experience of life, to enlarge our sympathies and, quicken our sensibilities, and since the primary commandment of Christianity was to be disciples of Jesus Christ who had loved God and human beings totally, then the appropriate juncture between Christian faith and literature came at the point of living out our faithfulness.

Therefore, while it recognizes human sympathy, fellow - feeling and identification, it has a new basis for identification with the other.

To make the point he quotes Dawkins» own «perceptive» summary of Lot in The God Delusion: «If this dysfunctional family was the best that Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone» (Cheekily adding, «Well, Rabbi Dawkins, I think I'm very happy with that gloss!»)

To me, those who feel that you need to believe in a god to be either happy or good people deserve far more sympathy than people who feel in harmony with the universe itself.

Moreover, Whitehead points out, feeling of feeling is literally sympathy (with antipathy as a special distorted case), so that what we have is a metaphysics of love in its central meaning.

People with broad human sympathies and deep feelings are often reluctant to make moral judgments about others and often feel that morality is a cold and heartless business.

For the neighbor is not this or that man with whom I feel a bond of sympathy, it is every man; yet not every man in general, but every man with whom I come in contact.

God possesses all the relevant information, perfectly adequate reasoning ability, and a perfect sympathy with the feelings of each individual within the social system (BSI 207).

The detestation felt by workers for the conditions under which they labor is fierce and widespread; if their complaints are listened to with sympathy, it is possible to hear in them a cry for elemental rights.

In reading such a narrative, we realize the gap between the thirteenth and the twentieth century, and we feel that saintliness of character may yield almost absolutely worthless fruits if it be associated with such inferior intellectual sympathies.

And for the record I was raised on a steady diet of how «mainstream» (said with derision) Christianity was a harlot, so it's hard to feel to much sympathy for them.

And we Christians stood by, awe - stricken, as though we were in the presence of something formidable and assured; we gave anxious promises of sympathy and collaboration, when the thing sought and needed was escape; we showed our fellow - feeling for the drowning man by jumping into the water along with him.

Unless, of course, it makes you feel better,» and then claims a fresh sympathy with Voltaire, «who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.»

Nature has no one distinguishable ultimate tendency with which it is possible to feel a sympathy.

This isn't the first time that referees have made some bad goalie interference calls and Red Wings fans will feel zero sympathy for the Blackhawks with all the Tomas Holmstrom goalie interference calls there were over the last decade.

I feel he could get back to top form given time, but when you start demanding wages over 100k, sympathy and leeway grows very thin and demands grow with the salary.

Along with all those feelings of anger and frustration was one of huge sympathy for Andy Carroll who was left entirely isolated and producing flick - ons to nobody.

And, having now worked closely with Houston ISD's Food Services department for the last four years, I feel only sympathy for school districts trying to balance their budgets while meeting the HHFKA's healthier school food mandates, all in the face of insufficient funding and negative student reactions to the food.

I have a lot of sympathy with how it must feel to come here and probably see / hear things that have just never come up before.

• men with high prolactin levels respond to babies» cries more alertly and positively than other men, and feel more sympathy for their distress (Fleming et al, 2002)

Previous research has also shown that men with high testosterone levels feel less sympathy or need to respond to the cries of a baby.

I share the feelings of many of sympathy for the victims and families, of wishing to express solidarity with the French people in standing up to terrorism, -LSB-...]

Actually, There are two reasons to feel sympathy for Sandra Lee — her illness and her relationship with apathetic human being!

Jowell and Mills, with the sort of timing which physically prevents you from feeling sympathy, suddenly decided to separate.

Unlike a film such as Spielberg's Munich, where it is easy to feel sympathy and empathy for the Mossad agents led by Eric Bana, where you admire the craft of what the filmmakers created, it is impossible to empathise with Meinhof, who it is clear from the start is way out of her depth and the mercenary Ensslin.

In Wisconsin, my sympathies lie with the protestors but I understand how the displaced private sector middle class feels.

But sympathy we did feel, if we had any ounce of soul, for the players caught up in Coalition, James Graham's extraordinarily gripping re-engagement of that long week in May 2010 when voters could only wait with a kind of frenetic boredom to find out who was to govern us for the next five years.

There will be a voice for moderate trade unionists who feel they may have sympathy with the Conservatives or even just feel that they're not being represented by militant trade union leaders.»

I suddenly felt a great deal of sympathy for all the people I'd met with contamination phobias: This must be what it feels like, I thought.

In one experiment, men with higher testosterone levels felt less sympathy and less need to respond to the sound of a crying baby.

Clooney's very good, but his character remains an archetype with little depth or sympathy, making the finale feel more perfunctory than redemptive.

The better ones infuse their work with enough chops that you can feel sympathy for the character's POV, if not their reason for being.

Where those previous films felt compelled to lunge for edginess (read: sneering raunch) as chaos dutifully descended on characters they didn't like very much — and weren't particularly interested in getting audiences to like, either — Game Night takes care to locate our sympathies with Bateman, and McAdams, and its cast of charming ringers.

So when that assistant girl got whipped with the piano string thingy... (which I might also add caused a tremendous laugh from the audience... shouldn't we have felt sympathy?