Sentences with phrase «very sympathetic figure»

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

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The difference between American Splendor and Ghost World is that with two solitary figures in search of completion, there is the possibility for recognition of sameness — but with two figures (underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis)-RRB- who have found in one another a sympathetic orbit, a partner in life and lo, with a child dropped willy - nilly into their midst to tie up loose ends, there is instead a sort of alien, island of lost toys exclusion that makes for a further alienation of the very alienated audience to which Pekar's comic so appealed and, eventually, took for granted and pandered.

When you combine this with Pagan's apparent desire to set you up as ruler of Kyrat it paints him in a very different light, still as a man who has done terrible things but also a far more understandable and sympathetic figure.