Sentences with phrase «seem unsympathetic»

But justice matters even for those who seem unsympathetic upon first consideration.

It sometimes helps to share your feelings, but people who have never lost a pet themselves may seem unsympathetic.

As directed by John Cameron Mitchell, in a style much less outrageous than in his previous «Hedwig and the Angry Inch» and «Shortbus», «Rabbit Hole» is full of sentiment without being sentimental, it's not afraid to make its characters seem unsympathetic.

To the twenty - first - century reader, Susan, the eldest sister, can seem unsympathetic if not frankly maddening, as her consistent function throughout this lengthy series is to cook, clean up, and see that her younger siblings, Titty and Roger, keep their feet dry.

Parents wrote about teachers who were hard to reach or seemed unsympathetic to parental concerns; who assigned too much homework or did nt bother to collect homework conscientiously completed; who did nt notify them when their childrens behavior changed or grades began to fall.

Not exact matches

He seems clearly unsympathetic to America's current role and behavior in the world, but he is entirely unclear as to what alternatives, if any, should be put in their place.

Filmmaker Carl Tibbetts, working from a screenplay cowritten with Janice Hallett, has infused Retreat with an almost excessively deliberate pace that proves problematic right from the outset, with the movie's hands - off atmosphere exacerbated by Newton's cold, oddly unsympathetic performance (ie she seems to actively hate her own husband).

They're also irony - rich: what might seem superficially sprightly leads not to levity but to a reminder that each of Solondz's stories concerns a deeply unsympathetic person who, despite some measure of physical plenitude, finds him or herself in a position of almost total social isolation.

It is populated with characters who seem sympathetic in their motives but unsympathetic in their actions, who seem unworthy of sympathy in any way, or whose qualities and motives are only revealed in their final moments, but McDonagh has limitless compassion for them — not in spite of their flaws but because of them.