Sentences with phrase «quite sympathetic»

Believe it or not, many judges are actually quite sympathetic to the plight of certain drivers and you can actually get your fine or charge reduced or done away with.

As an outside observer who is quite sympathetic to Judith, I find her description interesting and plausible.

I was a libertarian of sorts (Objectivist, actually, for about a decade and a half), and I am still quite sympathetic towards that sort of world view.

I feel sure most bankruptcy judges would be quite sympathetic to both Martish and Nailor.

Ortiz, whose column is quite sympathetic to...

Seyfried, whatever wildly uneven career she is pursuing these days, is quite sympathetic as a broken woman whose psychic injuries date from decades before.

Choosing to play Dr. Kelly as a harried, ambitious young executive, Kidman becomes quite sympathetic.

I am quite sympathetic to his ignoring and treating badly some of the right wing idiots but he also treats some of the front bench, and even some of the shadow cabinet, like this.

The Guardian, normally quite sympathetic to the kind of anti-austerity plain - speaking for which Corbyn is renowned, is full of appeals to its readership (many of them natural Labour sympathisers) to return to their senses.

My MP was quite sympathetic: «The traffic was bad today,» he said.

Football itself - the sport considered in isolation - is quite sympathetic to the underdog.

Thus Diamond — who personally is quite sympathetic to Kurzweil — points to the «marvelous coherence and consistency» of Kurzweil's method, to the «passion and the struggle with which he carried out the critical enterprise.»

At the Scene, Dara makes a point I start out being quite sympathetic toward: We allow the people making law to represent their constituents — in fact, we generally encourage them to resemble their constituents and celebrate their own biographies — but we deny the same sort of personality....

Not exact matches

And sympathetic though not quite comprehending company is better than none at all.

«I would defy anybody to find a piece of research, and there's been quite a bit done, that shows that participating in sport makes one more sympathetic kind, caring, all the kind of passive values that are talked about and valued in Christian community,»

When we study the history of Europe and America we can assume at least a minimal knowledge about the influence of Greek, Jewish, and Christian religious thought and practices, but for the study of the history of Asia we must prepare ourselves by gaining a sympathetic understanding of the quite different religious ideas and practices of that part of the world.

While people sympathetic to the Jesus movement are less critical of American society, the Christian World, Liberation Front, a Berkeley: group, is atypical in being quite critical.

The traumatic act of realization surely removed the precise details of this unbelievable outcome quite beyond exact recall, even by the immediate participants, to say nothing of all the subsequent generations of sympathetic participants repeating the line of re-enactment: «We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out» (Deut.

I think we should be quite tolerant and sympathetic toward such heroics.

The Research on Sympathetic Pregnancy This is something that has been researched and found to be quite real.

These sympathetic souls include Green Moms with college - age kids — La Marguerite, Karen Hanrahan, Anna from GreenTalk and Diane MacEachern — as well as many with elementary school age kids like my Big Boy — the Not Quite Crunchy Parent, Surely You Nest, Sommer from Green and Clean Mom and even a few like me, still dealing with diapers — Alana from Gray Matters holding the honor of having the youngest baby among us.

It is quite clear that it aims at getting people active who are sympathetic to the ideological position of the Corbyn camp.

In our busy, stressful lives we are constantly activating our sympathetic nervous system (fight - or - flight stress response), which creates agitation and stress — quite the opposite of a blissful state.

I'm emphatic, sympathetic, warm, a bit shy but still quite outgoing metal head from Oulu / FIN.

Turturro is thoroughly sympathetic in his portrayal of everyone involved (which is not quite the same as approving), and he makes excellent use of a religious subculture that takes sex very seriously (which is not quite the same as disapproving).

I know that Gulley's father is quite possibly abusive but Kailey is not the solution, even though the movie tries in vain to make her sympathetic.

The final piece of the puzzle is arguably Aaron Eckhart's finest screen performance in many years; quite apart from the attention - courting bald spot and weight gain, his depiction of trainer Kevin Rooney (also the man who trained Mike Tyson) is a consummately believable and sympathetic one, enjoying salty and bromantic chemistry with Teller that adds frequent laughs to the movie's more emotional moments.

Mila Kunis (best known for being Jackie in That»70s Show) is quite obviously the sympathetic sweetheart of the film while Kristen Bell (known for her role as Veronica in Veronica Mars) is clearly the unknowing antagonist.

Now, John Marston was no saint, but he was consistently sympathetic and usually quite honourable.

She's not the only one who has suffered, as he suffers every time he must explain the circumstances that led to her condition (Firth is quite good, even as the movie works against his sympathetic performance).

I also quite liked Dale Dickey as the icy but somehow sympathetic Mehrab.

If Johnny is considered an anti-hero to the narrative, than Jeremy / Sebastian is quite simply the anti-Christ, an individual so devoid of human compassion that his very existence in the story only amplifies the sympathetic characteristics of the downtrodden Johnny.

Judy Greer is quite staggering, involved in a character that's richly despicable yet surprisingly sympathetic.

The cast is excellent, with Imogen Poots delivering a charming and sympathetic performance as a woman trying to make the best of her situation, with a Brooklyn accent which is only quite distracting.

But despite my enthusiasm for electronic publishing, I am also quite nostalgic / sympathetic when it comes to traditional publishing.

By now you will have understood that I am sympathetic to the libertarian position, and I wonder whether the debtors» friends in Congress have a covert agenda, namely to keep those with poor credit from taking on debt even when these debtors are fully informed of the risks and costs and quite willing to bear them.

Do not be embarrassed to ask if you wish to keep some fur, or perform a ceremony such as saying a prayer — vets are quite used to such requests and will be sympathetic.

Maybe not quite as large since Sansa is probably viewed as the more sympathetic character, despite how many people disliked her in the first few seasons, but an outrage nonetheless.

Come The Phantom Pain, however, and Skull Face is given quite a bit of material to make him more sympathetic.

Now, John Marston was no saint, but he was consistently sympathetic and usually quite honourable.

But Rooks notes that while sympathetic, the two exhibitions are quite distinct.

Also, courts appear to be becoming more sympathetic to the first nation's positions every year, although the process is quite slow because these cases take a long time to work their way of the chain.

However I'm not overly sympathetic toward Phil Jones because my reading of his past behaviour is that he is quite happy to misrepresent the intentions of others and to play games with the truth.

As mentioned above, often these characters can be quite «flakey» and may contrast well with presentable and sympathetic plaintiffs.

People assume that the insurance company is going to do the right thing, that if they're cooperative and lay it all out, that there's some human behind all of this that's going to be sympathetic and understanding, but it's quite the opposite.