sympathetic response
Example Sentences
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Two proposals backed by Greenberg, the Louisville mayor, drew a sympathetic response from a fellow mayor who is running for governor.
From Washington Times • Apr. 14, 2023
It “really swayed” independents and men, Kumar said, evoking a more sympathetic response than an ad with a woman sharing that her abortion allowed her to attend college and pursue a career.
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022
She accused Chu of being taken in by a performance she alleged was coached, and wondered why her own tears didn’t get such a sympathetic response.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022
If the optic nerve message shows that low levels of light are falling on the retina, the hypothalamus activates the sympathetic response.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
That she ever loved him is doubtful; but there were in her spirit impulses capable of sympathetic response to his own in his bravest acts, though not in his noblest motives.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
