Sentences with phrase «sympathetic about»

It includes various definitions and lingo, including, «A concern troll is someone who pretends to be sympathetic about a topic or discussion while trolling.»

While China reemphasized their opposition to any proposals that contradict the Kyoto Protocol, they said they felt «very sympathetic about the proposal from Tuvalu,» and were «flexible and ready» to have discussion on some (and not all) of the proposal items, particularly those that don't serve the purpose of the Kyoto Protocol.

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.

In the event that you are talking with a man on a online dating website and needs to separate then it will be simple for you to end the connection in light of the fact that you were not meeting your singles women online accomplice physically and would not be very sympathetic about one another so it will be less stretch full to end the relationship.

A sneeze that led to another and another, until I had a full - fledged cold I couldn't shake, even as the weeks wore on and my co-workers became less sympathetic about the dirty tissues that littered my desk.

Norwegians were VERY upset and sympathetic about the matter.

Not exact matches

After the U.K.'s Brexit Secretary David Davis effectively disavowed the deal struck over the financial settlement to be paid, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier told a handful of sympathetic newspapers that the U.K. could forget about a sweet deal on market access for the city of London's banks.

In an interview with Fortune, Chapman, who received fellow animators» support after going public about the ordeal, recalled her struggle «being the only woman in the room trying to explain my characters» point of view of the mother and daughter and why they're both sympathetic and they're both not sympathetic.

But Binelli's too clear - eyed and too sympathetic to the actual problems experienced by the people that live there to find anything exciting about wiping the city's slate clean for a «rebirth.»

Yet as the story progresses, she proceeds to do a number of terrible things in her conviction about the righteousness of her cause, in a way that makes her less sympathetic.

While I'm sympathetic to anyone who dislikes the current tax rates, and I think it is unfortunate that dividends are taxed at all since they are already taxed 35 % or so at the corporate level, but realistically speaking, the current 15 % tax structure (for most of us) is about as good as we can ask for.

I was sympathetic to the Alberta Party when it came out, but when I began to talk to members about issues concerning organized labour I found that they didn't have any policies.

While normally we might expect Facebook to present its case more strongly, it too is opting for a quieter, more conservative stance because the more it makes a legitimate defence of its systems the less sympathetic it becomes, and the more negative PR about the company and its unparalleled data it generates.

Zealous evangelicals who retain the anti-Catholic instincts of former days sometimes think that when their fellow Protestants begin to take an interest in the Catholic Church or to make sympathetic noises about Catholic beliefs, practices, and institutions, the moth has begun to circle the flame.

Though not a Catholic, I was sympathetic to Catholic views about procreation.

A good number of men are sympathetic to this concern, but still make jokes about women moving into areas formerly populated almost exclusively by males.

I so enjoyed my chat with Chris Dikes about writing — as most writers know, it's a rare pleasure to talk with a sympathetic someone about our work.

Moreover, this knowledge is empathetic, intimate, sympathetic knowledge, closer to feeling than to rationality.27 It is knowledge «by acquaintance»; it is not «information about.»

The suggestion, however, that God cares about the world as one cares about one's own body, that is, with a high degree of sympathetic concern, does not imply that all is well or the future assured, for with the body metaphor, God is at risk.

The one constraint this proposal does lay on decisions about the content of the course of study is that it be focused by rigorous and sympathetic study of a pluralism of types of Christian congregation.

I don't mean that church - related schools should hire only creationists, I mean they should hire people who are sympathetic and informed about the different ways that Christians integrate belief in God with the findings of science.

It's a statement about the interplay between our own emotional stability and how social media can set it reeling, and Plaza's performance anchors the whole thing, making Ingrid a sympathetic character without glossing over her very real issues.

«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,»

Much of the value of this dialogue for process philosophers lies in following along precisely the sorts of things that Hausman and I said, for these are the sorts of things nearly all process philosophers say about Bergson, even those such as Hausman and I, who are very sympathetic to Bergson and try to study him closely (although admittedly, Hausman is really more a Peircean and I am more a Whiteheadian, and Gunter is really Bergson's true apologist).

Boston University sociologist Nancy Ammerman is sympathetic to Stark's point that religion is rational, but has reservations about focusing on exchange and reward.

It would be easier for politicians who are our allies to speak effectively about the issue, and they would find a more sympathetic audience.

Edgar S. Brightman, who had himself been working for many years on the development of a nontraditional view of God, rejected Hartshorne's panentheism but praised other aspects of his view of God.35 Reinhold Niebuhr wrote a brief but very sympathetic review, 36 and John Bennett claimed that Hartshorne's was perhaps the best hypothesis about God available to contemporary theology.37 D. C. Macintosh found the book «exceptionally penetrating, stimulating, and instructive,» but by accusing Hartshorne of being too rationalistic he touched on what has been one of the major differences between Hartshorne and most other Whiteheadian theologians.38

Coughlan's is a generally sympathetic review of The Dying of the Light, until he gets to the end, when he suddenly turns and attacks Burtchaell for being «coy» about what ought now to be done.

«But atheist, agnostic and humanist students suffer the same problems as religious students — deaths or illnesses in the family, questions about the meaning of life, etc. — and would like a sympathetic nontheist to talk to.»

If we understand purpose, then when we meet those who are faltering and despairing, shouldn't we talk about it in sympathetic and persuasive terms.

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.

This is about the company's discriminatory screening process for carefully selecting and rejecting franchise operators and employees based on whether they are sympathetic to CFA's religious views.

I am very sympathetic to Bottum's forebodings, especially about the dynamics propelling what presents itself as, and often is, scientific progress.

Readers who are generally sympathetic to the attempt to return to an original understanding of the Constitution may not be aware that Scalia rejects the dominant theory about how this is to be done» intentionalism.

Furthermore, whatever our aesthetic and theological misgivings about the Left Behind phenomenon, we do the Christian community no favors by failing to take an honest and sympathetic look at the underlying apocalypticism to which such novels respond.

Professor Eamonn Duffy is more sympathetic, and even describes what Howse calls this «compilation of misery» as «a major [sic] contribution to the Catholic Church's examination of conscience about the roots and circumstances of sexual abuse».

Although I met Sidney Hook in person only once or twice, I always felt a sympathetic bond between us on this issue, and I had a chance to speak with him about it not long before he died.

And why talk about «serving» a God in whom our greatest joys and worst sufferings can awaken no sympathetic response, who gives all and receives nothing?

For many years I sat in a pew on Sundays, listening to occasional sermons about the poor, giving to special offerings and looking appropriately sympathetic and concerned about poverty.

All misgiving about the damage done the owners would disappear if we could assume that this entire incident was not originally one told about Jesus, but about a Jewish miracle man who undertook this expulsion in some heathen country, and hence felt no sympathetic concern either for the men or for the unclean animals.

ZILLER: I'm sympathetic to any argument that reminds us Scott Skiles and Jim Boylan having been running the Bucks» rotation, but «Henson has too much talent not to be playing 30 minutes a night» is something you could say about 50 other guys collecting DNPs.

After spending the better part of two months feeding false stories to sympathetic reporters in Spain about how a Coutinho transfer was permanent — later this week!

This was also the hospital where I complained about the heat in my room for 24 hours, and the nurses just made sympathetic sounds (I was in pressure boots due to edema and couldn't get up, and they blamed the boots for the heat).

«This is a serious book about a pressing issue, but Tough manages to make it an easy read with a cast of sympathetic characters... We don't know how this story will end.

Chat to the people sitting around me about the baby and let her interact with them before she gets upset... so they feel sympathetic instead of annoyed.

SOmething about that random act turned around the body language and opinions of the other passengers who saw it, and they were much more sympathetic and nice the rest of the flight.»

Unless you're really comfortable with the person and you know he or she would appreciate or be sympathetic to the details of your symptoms each trimester, avoid talking about them in depth.

Studies of Western kids suggest that children develop better emotional self - control when their parents talk to them about their feelings in a sympathetic, problem - solving way.

Most of the time they give me sympathetic looks, or offer to carry my luggage, or hold Ember, or fondly reminisce about their own travels with their children.

Allow your child to openly talk about her feelings about the move and be sympathetic to her fears.