Sentences with phrase «more unsympathetic»

Robbie also accomplishes something truly impressive by portraying a heretofore - unsympathetic character; and making many in the audience have a degree of empathy for Harding while not whitewashing her more unsympathetic character traits.

In King's stories, their existence always serves to highlight the cruelty and arrogance of the tolerated white American male, and perhaps no other King protagonist is more unsympathetic than the main character of Thinner.

It sounds like it'll be one of his more unsympathetic characters, of a slave owner who brutalizes Ejiofor's character, a free man kidnapped and forced into the titular dozen years of enslavement, before a Canadian lawyer (Fassbender) helps him gain his freedom.

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Most of us know that these kinds of statements do more harm than good, so we play it safe and refrain from offering any encouragement at all because we don't want it to come out like a robotic and unsympathetic platitude.

Their worldview would be extremely unsympathetic to spiritual things and they'd be more atheistic.

Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

There was still indeed a majority of representatives, conservative and more or less unsympathetic to religious change as such, or to any change opposed by Pope and Emperor.

It might be a tad intellectually dishonest, but more often than not I can give the impatient primigravida a rationale (a 45 % C / S rate) why I am not scheduling her induction without her muttering what an unsympathetic doctor I am and what bad «bedside manner» I have.

In the United Kingdom over the last decade, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) was often unsympathetic to the creation of more mutually - owned businesses.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who has had a rocky relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is not unsympathetic to the current governor's efforts to consolidate even more power in the executive branch.

In contrast, the Tories» cynical strategy aims to create a human shield of supposedly indolent, feckless, benefit - scrounging deadlegs whose unsympathetic lifestyles make its package of welfare cuts more palatable to the public.

[30][31] Blunt's voting record in Parliament had previously been broadly unsympathetic towards gay rights, [32] though slightly more favourable when compared with the majority of his Conservative colleagues.

At trial, which was more like a bad soap opera, the senior Skelos came off as arrogant, nasty, willing to abuse his office repeatedly to steer jobs and money to his son — but oddly enough, not entirely unsympathetic.

Easy might include filling out your height, while hard might include coming up with a good The profile of one Ben Rhodes running in Sunday's New York Times Magazine is not unsympathetic, which makes it all the more devastating.

Romantic comedies are ordinarily predictable, inane, and harmless, but in striving to be more ambitious and relevant, this one falls flatter with its slices - of - life approach only underscoring how shallow and unsympathetic it is.

(Many young performers would no doubt turn down a role like Daphne, who is so frequently unsympathetic; Robbie's relish in playing her shows her to be more interested in being a serious actress than in merely being liked.)

Much of the film is spent closely following Lorna, her unsympathetic nature gradually softening as it becomes more evident that she is a victim of her circumstances, and that the chances of her plan coming off are slim indeed.

It can intensify gender inequalities and thus leave women with yet more work to do among unsympathetic men and patriarchal power relations.

Cats roam further and more often, and their spraying, yowling, and fighting are more likely to attract the attention of unsympathetic neighbors — resulting in a one - way trip to the shelter.

Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare (PS4, Xbox One, PC) sets its conflict in the future, safe in the knowledge that no memories are being trampled in its more gung - ho approach, which sees your hero fighting his way up from Earth to its planetary colonies in pursuit of rebels who are painted as utterly unsympathetic and totally evil.

I'm not entirely unsympathetic to Graham's concerns — all things considered, it makes more sense to me to tackle climate before immigration — but his tactical demands are a little over the top.

Stu d. 255, 270 (2016)(describing statistically significant results of an experiment in which actual judges were asked to make a ruling about a hypothetical criminal conviction, taking into account both a single precedent and either positive or negative facts about the defendant, and upheld the conviction of the unsympathetic defendant at a rate more than twice as high as that of the sympathetic defendant (87 - 41 %)-RRB-.

More importantly, when she is proposing something different to what you might have originally wanted, she explains the rationale clearly so that your ultimate decision is an informed one and she does this without making you feel as though she is unsympathetic to your wishes (which I have actually come across from one solicitor).

But mock trials also show sympathetic defendants get more non-guilty verdicts and unsympathetic defendants get more guilty verdicts in front of jurors who were explicitly told about nullification compared to those who weren't.