Sentences with phrase «highly sympathetic»

The public remains highly sympathetic to Santa, and his defenders are claiming that he suffers from obesity, type 2 diabetes, clinical depression and may even have a drinking problem.

Louise Gray of the Daily Telegraph, generally highly sympathetic to green causes, reported that Hand had accused Mann of using «inappropriate» methods that had «exaggerated» the threat from climate change, an accusation emblazoned in the article's headline:

even his highly sympathetic biographer wondered.

Wilks» landscapes were mainly of Donegal, Antrim, Kerry and Connemara, although later he painted several highly sympathetic Dutch landscapes.

Some of the characters are highly sympathetic, others are villainous.

For the most part he is a highly sympathetic, identifiable and likeable character to spend the film in the company of.

For a movie that hinges on a soulless man developing feelings, Criminal is noticeably lacking any of its own, what with its roster of repellent characters and the chilly approach taken by director Ariel Vroman (whose previous feature, The Iceman, was similarly, uh, frosty) and scripters Douglas Cook and David Weisberg — note, as but one example, that the death of a highly sympathetic character (and played by a highly billed performer) is treated as an aside, completely ignored by the person's friends and colleagues and, by extension, the filmmakers themselves.

In a movie mostly devoid of sympathy, Renfro gives a highly sympathetic performance as the fat, cowering loser, made even more affecting by the fact that, about a month after shooting wrapped, the actor died of a heroin overdose at age 25.

Annette Bening gives a nuanced, highly sympathetic performance as the aging Grahame.

Despite all the twitches and tics, Cage makes Roy a highly sympathetic figure — a confidence trickster with no confidence whose best deception is the one he reserves for himself.

It's no one's fault — least of all the study section members, who tend to be highly sympathetic to proposals from new investigators.

The ACLU & Co. would still have stormed immediately into court... but they wouldn't have done so while representing highly sympathetic clients who were being detained at the airport amid swarms of protesters, news media, Democratic politicians making welcome - to - Nazi - Germany speeches, and so on.

While I am not a vegetarian, I am a highly sympathetic carnivore, and I wanted to come up with a dish that has the necessary flair to serve as -LSB-...]

It is not hard to believe that Coleridge would have been highly sympathetic to, for instance, Whitehead's remark that «In our direct apprehension of the world around us we find that curious habit of claiming a twofold unity with the observed data....

It is a highly sympathetic study of the religion in all its aspects.

Why should I, as a religious person, be pleased that there are a bunch of flakes out there who reject «scientism» and «secularism» which, as defined in this article, are two «isms» to which I am highly sympathetic.

With the March for Our Lives in March and school walkouts on Friday, students with highly sympathetic stories are speaking up.

The looming wave of deportations of highly sympathetic DREAMers that Trump is poised to unleash is bad economics and worse politics.

Not exact matches

I'm sympathetic to CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld's case that a sustained lower loonie will entice companies to start new businesses / expand operations in Canada, with a lag; I also agree with Mike Moffatt (professor at Ivey, small businessman in Canada's manufacturing heartland, dodgeball player) when he says that manufacturers in the area are highly risk averse.

He «highly recommends» my sympathetic account of moderately socially conservative Darwinian or evolutionary psychologists, particularly Jonathan Haidt (who,....

However, although Hall is clearly sympathetic to much in the «gnostic sensibility» as thus characterized (cf. UP 336 - 46), and although, as we have seen, he regards modern technology as the manifestation of a tendency in Western thought and culture of which he is highly critical, he does not himself recommend «a revolt against contemporary forms of technology,» at least as that phrase would ordinarily be understood.

His attitude and sympathetic approach towards the poor and needy is highly appreciable or considerable.

The public is highly unlikely to be sympathetic if lawmakers dare to hold up the budget simply because they want to protect the status quo.

Those who run away can find themselves in risky situations, flattered by the attentions of sympathetic adults, and can become «highly vulnerable to the well - rehearsed grooming techniques of abusing adults,» the report said.

Highly localized interactions between sensory neurons and sprouting sympathetic fibers observed in a transgenic tyrosine hydroxylase reporter mouse.

I felt the highly stylised art meant that the children avoided the dip into the uncanny valley you see with children in games like Fallout or Skyrim, and actually made them more sympathetic than they may have been with a more «realistic» art style.

But I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the FX show The Americans and point out that its writers have set the gold standard for portraying sympathetic Russian - agent characters and highly complicated spycraft techniques — and its seduction scenes are never haphazard.

If there's one bit of Ready Player One to be praised highly, it's Rylance's performance: as sympathetic a portrayal of the Steve Jobs type as seen in a movie.

Afforded generous pacing and editing, even smaller parts manage to hit upon marks, such as Larry's roundabout superior (Ari Hoptman), relaxed pot - smoking neighbor (Amy Landecker), sympathetic but professional divorce lawyer (Adam Arkin), and highly divergent rabbis.

A terrifying and affecting story of a sometimes sympathetic half - mad human time bomb who explodes with highly ironic consequences, its resonances with real life are all too obvious.

I was highly impressed by Mike, his sympathetic listening to the nightmare

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«As always, Brunetti is highly attuned to (and sympathetic toward) the failings of the humans around him.»

Gone Home has a meaningful message that is neither highly positive or negative, but is something that we as people in today's society can be sympathetic about, can understand and can relate to.

People who score highly on extroversion tend to agree strongly with statements designed to assess how talkative, energetic, and assertive they are; those who score highly on agreeableness tend to agree strongly with statements designed to assess how sympathetic, kind, and affectionate they are.

A substantial political action committee or war chest for political contributions and issue advocacy campaigns — All highly effective lobbying organizations must have the ability to contribute substantial financial resources to support congressional candidates who are sympathetic to their key issues.