empathy
Example Sentences
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"Cinema can do something better, which is provoking empathy."
From BBC
Page consults Martha Stout’s book “The Sociopath Next Door” to understand the character’s lack of empathy and remorse.
From Los Angeles Times
Victor’s crime, the creature believes, is to have assumed the role of God, but the scientist fails to fully reckon with his own absence of empathy.
Not worrying about what others think of you reveals a selfishness, a lack of empathy, a disrespect for your professional environment.
“I never thought I would write a poetry book, but in doing that, I feel like I found real empathy for myself,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times
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