Sentences with phrase «sympathetic figure»

But his appearance also suggests an innocence — an infancy, almost — which makes him an unexpectedly sympathetic figure.

Thanos is being billed as a much more sympathetic figure in Avengers: Infinity Wars than his comic book counterpart, and it's a change for the better.

By this rationale, a well - educated, professional woman is not to be as sympathetic a figure as a waitress or factory worker who presumably works to make ends meet.

That abrupt moment hits Aydin's wife harder than the man himself, at which point Nihal begins to emerge as the more sympathetic figure.

Dean Skelos» attorney, Robert Gage, and Adam's attorney, Christopher Conniff, have signaled they will try to make their clients sympathetic figures.

Mancini is a tremendously sympathetic figure, a hard - working man who became a fighter because he wanted to make things right, and still does.

In all previous versions he's been a villain — his primary objective has always been to cook Peter Rabbit in a pie — but in this trailer he's the only sympathetic figure.

Individuals like artists Robert Smithson and Mario Merz, as well as the doomed explorer Donald Crowhurst, feature in her work as sympathetic figures who share an interest in isolating time and pursuing the impossible.

Of the cursed poets, Verlaine is perhaps the most sympathetic figure: Although his poetic gift marks him as extraordinary, in every other respect his weaknesses are all too human.

Most of those who know Benedict, «regard him as a very sympathetic figure.»

In his early 70s incarnation, Marks is a thoroughly sympathetic figure, an affable pothead goof up who doesn't remotely fit in his domineering father's (Frank Langella) world or have the slightest interest in the family business.

Sheen, who exudes naturalness, manages to be handsome without being self - conscious and surprisingly — he is, after all, a jock — emerges as the film's most consistently sympathetic figure.

Allen and Logan, though, do envision him as an almost sympathetic figure.

She's the only truly sympathetic figure present in this entire saga, and what on the surface appears to be nothing more than a superficial gold - digger turns out to be a humane and caring figure of regret and sadness who sees the good in everyone only to have them let her down time and time again.

Making her a purely sympathetic figure would be an easy and understandable direction in which to go, but Abrahamson and writer Emma Donoghue (the original novelist) take the time to sketch a three dimensional figure, a caring mother who is fiercely protective of her son while simultaneously shattered by her experiences and arrested development.

Given the bleakness of this film's vision of the future of humanity, I don't begrudge the screenwriters (director Reeves, in collaboration with Mark Bomback) an attempt to include a single sympathetic figure from our withering branch of the hominid family tree.

Ms. Nash is an entirely sympathetic figure.

Dean's attorney, Robert Gage, and Adam's attorney, Christopher Conniff, have signaled they will try to make their clients sympathetic figures.

But Mancini is a tremendously sympathetic figure, a hard - working man who became a fighter because he wanted to make things right, and still does.

Main protagonist Nick shows believable reactions to the events surrounding him while also being a kind and sympathetic figure who only wishes to help as many citizens as he can.

He may have lived a life of violence, but the circumstances that turned him into who he is make him a sympathetic figure.

This description resembles the «Black Panther» villain Killmonger, played by Michael B. Jordan, who was praised by critics and audiences for being a sympathetic figure even though his methods were brutal.

So, let's assume his team will try to present him as a sympathetic figure — in what will perhaps be a herculean legal effort — who had his company stolen from him.

He is a sympathetic figure in the battle for the heart and soul of Wall Street as the wirehouses get more biggerer and focused on corporate profitability over the satisfaction of their brokers and clients.

The portrayal on Mr. Hamze as a sympathetic figure is ludicrous.

That said, we can actually see a deconstruction of the cowboy as a sympathetic figure through Tom Cruise's portrayal of Barry Seal in American Made, directed by Doug Liman.

But it is part of the dramatist's mastery of his theme that he makes her compromising, accommodating sister Chrysothemis a more attractive and sympathetic figure.

It would, for many young people, be the first time they ever heard an actual argument for a center - right policy, given from a sympathetic figure, in language they can understand.

In coaching circles, Dykes emerged (not surprisingly) as the sympathetic figure in the breakup.

Spanos might have been a sympathetic figure, but he withdrew from the public eye as the team struggled and the prospects of a new stadium sank to nothing.

A bizarre mix of speculation and innuendo involving sex and drugs has had a surprising effect on New York Gov. David Paterson's reputation: It has made him a sympathetic figure for perhaps the first time in his troubled 22 months in office.

The initial emphasis on Jack's decidedly mundane endeavors - ie he eats dinner with a priest, he meets with the aforementioned client, etc, etc - proves instrumental in transforming the character into a surprisingly compelling and sympathetic figure, which inevitably does heighten the suspense once the tense and thoroughly engrossing third act rolls around (ie the viewer can't help but actively root for Jack's success).

Even Graham, the ludicrous new - age shyster ex-boyfriend of Oliver's mother (Paddy Considine), becomes a sympathetic figure: a lost bohemian gone bust.

O'Connell, a rising star of British cinema, makes a sympathetic figure of Hook for whom the long night is a journey of enlightenment of the darkest kind.

Bang is at the center of the film (Moss appears in only a handful of scenes), and he's a sympathetic figure, a perfectly nice guy contributing to the decline of Western Civilization.

I think Lerman could be a compelling choice; he's likable, self - assured, and his youth would automatically render Cinna a sympathetic figure.

He's a sad yet sympathetic figure, and it's wonderful to see such a multidimensional character leading what could have been just another B grade thriller.

Handling it in this fashion allows for things to be a little muddled while not completely taking sides even though Harding is ultimately seen as more of a sympathetic figure than the media has ever portrayed.

Most of all, East of Eden shows Kazan in a rare, regretful posture post-testimony, striking an even rarer, perhaps, sympathetic figure.

Why, for instance, would one portray the death of a black conspirator on a slaver ship bound for Louisiana at the hand of a white crewman about to rape a sympathetic figure, when the document reveals this conspirator was taken by smallpox?

Huma, a well - known figure herself as a close advisor and friend to Hillary Clinton, is a strong and sympathetic figure.

De Niro doesn't play Bernie Madoff as a villain, but doesn't exactly turn him into a sympathetic figure either.

Her Amy is by far the film's most grounded character and is a sympathetic figure for the audience to latch on to.

Despite Harold's predicament, he is not a sympathetic figure.

MacIntyre's third - act efforts at transforming Hildebrand's character into a sympathetic figure fall hopelessly flat, to be sure, and it is, as a result, difficult to wholeheartedly buy the spectacularly cruel twist that closes the proceedings - with the end result a palpable misfire that admittedly might've worked as a 10 minute short.