Sentences with phrase «without sympathy»

While the Michigan Supreme Court isn't without sympathy, they noted that the plaintiff's attorney placed everything on an «all or nothing... bad bet.»

I am not without sympathy.

Yes, in the sense that no matter who or what causes these changes, they will affect the entire planet without sympathy.

I am not without sympathy when some new authors get «sticker shock» upon hearing an estimate for my editorial services, and I am actually relatively affordable.

More like tired, as Ben Stiller plays what he always seems to play as the romantic lead, except in this case, without any sympathy whatsoever.

Although she remains the villain of the piece, she isn't without some sympathy, as she pathetically tries to achieve a happiness that remains always forbidden, though it is always seemingly within her grasp.

So that's how I decided to play her — without sympathy.

Caryn had a miscarriage, and through that process she found the entire thing to be very medical and without sympathy.

Yes, in the sense that no matter who or what causes these changes, they will affect the entire planet without sympathy.

«It has become a politics without sympathy, unable to engage with everyday life.

And the sabre - rattling from a section of the Ijaw, threatening war and destruction should Goodluck Jonathan fail re-election, nicely keyed into that gung ho narrative, which certainly was not without sympathy in the South East.

We certainly can not be without sympathy for some aspects of Bultmann's proposal.

Without sympathy for our views amongst school officials, Nova parents organized to amplify our voice.

Not exact matches

If a prosecutor wants to convict a man of assault, he is (without a doubt) going to paint a picture for the audience of the suffering of the defendant, and will likely use expressive language to evoke a feeling of sympathy from the jury, who (as they listen) visualize the potential suffering of the man / woman in front of them.

Their effects are short - lived, and any trader who blindly chases a rising candle without understanding why it's rocketing deserves little sympathy.

When three children at Fatima reported a series of visions, they were interrogated and challenged by both the Church and the public authorities without much sympathy: they stuck resolutely to their accounts of what they had seen and heard.

In truth it is impossible to keep one's gaze constantly fixed on the vast horizons opened out to us by science without feeling the stirrings of an obscure desire to see men drawn closer and closer together by an ever - increasing knowledge and sympathy until finally, in obedience to some divine attraction, there remains but one heart and one soul on the face of the earth.

Not hesitating, and without saying a word (not to God, 2 and probably not to Sarah), Abraham «arose early in the morning,» as if he were wholeheartedly in sympathy with the request.

Nor are you wholly without human sympathy.

Stand firm, for it is you, and not your opponents, who are showing «active sympathy for the weak» (to borrow the Nietzschean phrase without adopting the Nietzschean critique); and you also, not your opponents, who are defending lawful law and the moral foundations of civilized society.

The simplest genuine form of love is sympathy; without that the rest is something else, lust for example.

Beckett's apparent insistence, later in the book, on the importance of Catholic sympathies (e.g. in Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson) suggests apologetics, not aesthetics, and reminds one uncomfortably that arguing the case for reasonable faith and faith - based reason is tremendously difficult without straying into what appears to be a partisan position.

To take one of Nussbaum's examples, it should be possible for a reader of Forster's Maurice to grow in understanding of, and even sympathy for, homosexuals without automatically endorsing governmental recognition of gay marriages.

His Juan, far from being meant to engage our sympathy, is for the most part rather uninteresting: an ordinary profligate, cad, and sexual predator of noble extraction, with sufficient means to pursue his desires and without any discernible sign of a conscience to impede the pursuit.

Yet, members of a congregation may be fully aware that there is a problem in the pastor's family without ever offering sympathy or assistance.

In Delphi this event hardly passed without tears; if a poet were to have adopted it as his theme, he might have dared to count very surely upon sympathy.

Harris - Shapiro suggested that Wyschogrod's surprising sympathy with Messianic Judaism really stems from his confidence that Jews who practice Torah will eventually return to the fullness of Judaism — without the adjective «Messianic.»

They can feel sincere but detached sympathy, can send money for world hunger projects, write to governments about human rights violations, boycott multinational corporations which exploit Third World people all without necessarily experiencing disruption in their own lives.

For when hate, and anger, and revenge, and despondency, and melancholy, and despair, and fear of the future, and reliance on the world, and trust in oneself, and pride that infuses itself even into sympathy, and envy that even mingles itself with friendship, and that inclination that may have changed but not for the better: when these dwell m a man — when was it without the deceptive excuse of ignorance?

The task is to offer compassion without getting bogged down in sympathy, to offer consistent limits without falling into moralizing judgments.

one of the issues arsene now has to face up to is that he can not serve his master kronke and then continuously disregard the importance of fans — by continuing to insist on anymore cheap rhetoric the manager and club integrity will eventually come to the fore and when the proverbial sh ** hits the fan those complicit in deceiving the arsenal faithful will find themselves alone without a hope in hell of receiving an ounce of sympathy.

Arsene Wenger will have little sympathy towards his players and will expect them to at least finish the campaign in style, ending their three match run without a win preferably.

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By holding space without being empathetic, moving into this place of sympathy we begin to offer gentle nonjudgemental support and guidance, releasing ourselves of feeling like we are responsible for our clients.

The dentistry issued a statement of sympathy for Mykel and his parents and said that it would be premature to comment on any specifics until outside medical experts finish their review, but they said they have used general anesthesia more than 1,900 times for pediatric patients in the last three and a half years without incident, and that they contract with a board - certified anesthesiologist who follows all protocols including pre-operative check and approval by the child's primary care physician before putting the child under anesthesia.

The sneering reply that Vince's contribution to the debate was simply «spreading alarm without substance» tells the audience outside Westminster why a Prime Minister, with an attitude like this to critics, ends up with so few friends in the House and, now that his pack of cards has come tumbling down around the voters» ears, even less sympathy outside.

But while the pogroms always «jump out» of Civil War history, to milk eternal sympathy, no one has mentioned the tragic trigger - taunts, without which it is doubtful the pogroms would have taken place.

Some observers, including the editorial staff of the Saudi Gazette, have expressed sympathy for Egypt's position, stressing Cairo's need to defend its territory from Islamist militants: «Egypt's curbs on movement through its crossing with the Gaza Strip is a security decision that had to be taken even though it has cut off imports of medicine and aid to the impoverished coastal enclave... Egypt had no other recourse but to seal the tunnels although it is not a decision without physical and political risks.

Usman also described Kanu as somebody without any means of livelihood, but used «propaganda» to attract public sympathy.

«To draw sympathy, the presidency quoted some absurd findings including extra-budgetary interventions; award of fictitious contracts; 53 failed contracts; payment for jobs without contractual agreements; non-execution of contracts for the purchase of 4 Alpha jets, bombs and ammunition.

After playing a violent, sexist game, these male players reported lower levels of sympathy and compassion (compared to those who played games without a sexist component) when shown a photo illustration depicting an adolescent girl who had been physically abused by an adolescent boy.

Though she plays her part without much emotion, and she's essentially not much more than a serial killer, she lends her role a certain sympathy as a predator that she has little discernment for the kinds of things she is doing.

Most impressively, Vikings captures the grim reality of these times and the limitations of these characters — barbarous, superstitious creatures that they are — in a manner that draws one into their world without necessarily evoking sympathy for it.

The film's broader shift in perspective is its most impressive, as its sympathies gradually tilt from Lady Bird, a teen desperate to transcend her upbringing, to Marion, a mother who sacrifices her time and her body for her family without reward.

It is all held together by Billy Bob Thornton, who for all his character's selfishness, perversity and downright mean - spiritedness, still manages to engage our frazzled sympathies without ever being fully redeemed.

The film occasionally requires him to address the camera directly, but Boseman's easy charisma wins sympathy even without this touch.

The result is a horror movie without horror and an adolescent bully comeuppance intrigue (see it best in Carrie) that has as its centre a character so Crispin Glover (so «one big cockroach right on his anus» Jingle Dell Crispin Glover) that it defeats sympathy and sense.

Josef also knows how much he can push Aaron without losing him completely, following unsettling displays of his psychosis with earnest pleas for sympathy.

The movie has genuine sympathy for her without sacrificing its support for Lady Bird.

This construct allows Roth to extend a measure of sympathy to younger generations without the usual condescension that such a gesture typically entails.