Sentences with phrase «genuine sympathy for»

But while there's no doubting Curry's energy or the diversity of his sources, genuine sympathy for the artist's project hinges on one's tolerance for willful — albeit playful — ugliness.

One confrontation with Ryan's thugs features a dialogue between Elizabeth and Booker that helps build tension and genuine sympathy for Elizabeth's struggle, highlighting just how good the writing for this series can get.

The main question here, one that is left wisely unanswered, is does he feel genuine sympathy for these people or are they merely the means to an end?

Instead, it has a genuine sympathy for its woman characters, whose trials have left each a stranger to herself.

Pacino, not one known to be terribly light on his feet, delivers a nimble and uncharacteristically reined - in performance that generates both laughs and genuine sympathy for his character's unusual plight.

The movie has genuine sympathy for her without sacrificing its support for Lady Bird.

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While there is some genuine confusion among businesses about some of the new regulations coming into force, it's also tough to feel too much sympathy for those who are complaining like it's the end of the world.

Henry would have no sympathy at all for the position advanced by the process theologians and accepted by feminists and Alvin Plantmga, 4 who insist that genuine freedom requires complete immunity from divine control.

The simplest genuine form of love is sympathy; without that the rest is something else, lust for example.

When a person acts on behalf of someone who has won his sympathy, the welfare of the other person has become his interest — it is a new self - interest altered by the genuine concern for the welfare of the other.

This is because until one admits the basic instability of intermediate modernity, and that our major cultural sicknesses go back at least as far as its 1920s arrival, one can not be a genuine conservative, nor have the degree of sympathy for Rock and the 60s counter-culture that one ought to.

Marsden's pleas for genuine pluralism within and among institutions of higher learning are attractive: Yet they ought to lead him to a greater measure of sympathy for the liberal Protestant figures he has studied.

Dogger cites mental illness as being behind that incident, of course anyone suffering from genuine mental illness deserves sympathy, but picking on someone smaller and weaker, and from what I have heard, not for the first time can be construed as something else.

My sympathy for Ms. Kitty was genuine.

moments, and it works very well, but don't walk into it thinking you're getting It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, because the show packs a heavy emotional punch as well; I found myself feeling genuine compassion and sympathy for Grace and Frankie, and was even a little misty - eyed by the end of the pilot, as anger, resentment, and bitterness gave way to cautious optimism.

What causes me to reassess Lucas, to reserve a little sympathy for him, is what appears to be his genuine ignorance about the damage he's doing to a legacy he all but disdains, as well as his love of the avant - garde and Godard's cinema of motion.

Is it genuine sympathy with his subjects, or are these people merely the means to an end to be used for his own gratification and personal success?

Take time to talk to your partner about their day, offering genuine praise for achievements and sympathy for setbacks.