sympathy
Example Sentences
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Director Yorgos Lanthimos skillfully brings viewers along for the ride, stretching and then rewarding their sympathy with Teddy, even as his behavior becomes ever more outlandish.
From Barron's
His trial judge later said he had added to the families' grief by pretending to help and offering words of sympathy to Holly's father.
From BBC
But the author’s sympathies extend well beyond the girls to the stalwart, fiercely protective aunt and grandmother who raise them, plus the many people who help shape their late adolescence and early adulthood.
Mr. Ireland draws the reader’s sympathy toward Trotsky, to a point, as an old man out of the game who did not deserve to be killed.
Because it is right to show human sympathy and regard.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
