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Example sentences for sympathy
Sympathy, a good advocate, and savvy politicking by your supporters could get this reversed.
She also attracted widespread sympathy because of her bereavement.
And it's only human that they're going to develop some kind of an emotional sympathy.
He had genuine sympathy for ordinary folk, for animals, for nature.
But there was also a natural sympathy working in his favor, given the fact that he is blind and no stranger to hardship.
We have great sympathy for him and wish him a speedy recovery.
They said the incident was contrived to attract sympathy votes.
But none of them can do much more than offer sympathy for the poor dopes' entrapments.
We waited too long in line and did everything by the book to have any sympathy for line jumpers.
But even this act did not draw the party into any closer sympathy.
If sympathy isn't genuine, it will undermine your efforts.
There is a big difference between empathy and sympathy.
Probably, the closer contact with his audience as lecturer than as writer satisfied his hunger for sympathy.
The unsettling future world doesn't have a real villain or much sympathy.
The harshness of this book is an expression of its basic sympathy.
It is difficult to muster much sympathy for the workers, however.
Whoever was in distress was sure not only of his sympathy, but of his hand and purse.
It's a difficult thing to come to terms with and you have my sympathy.
It was the first visit to such a place by a leader and was clearly aimed at showing sympathy with the marginalised.
When publishers complained, they encountered a distinct lack of popular sympathy for their plight.
His genius was inclined to the pathetic, and none could touch with truer effect the chords of human sympathy.
It voices sympathy with the humanitarian motives of the treaty.
But beware of mental-health chat rooms, which can be long on sympathy and short on facts.
For these tribulations he deserves a degree of sympathy.
It's difficult not to feel some sympathy with the archbishop, however.
And teachers who find the students do not reproduce previous lessons should have, then, more sympathy for students.
The form of gratification which the symptom yields has much about it that alienates one's sympathy.
He was also an artist of epic breadth and profound human sympathy.
He rarely invites any sympathy at all, and his unrepentant swagger says he wouldn't be caught dead trying.
They have the sympathy of millions of fellow-travellers.
Which is fortunate, since small business need a little sympathy these days.
But the national mood seemed to be calling for harsher drug laws, not sympathy for drug addicts.
Both respect for the feelings of others and sympathy with them are enjoined.
Juries sometimes base awards more on sympathy than facts.
We extend deep sympathy to his loving family and devoted congregation.
First to suffer are telemarketers, though they cannot expect much sympathy.
Something has to keep the lovers apart for a while to build suspense and the audience's sympathy before they can get together.
That, and of course he doesn't want your sympathy, he wants your attention.
Wind power is taking on natural gas, which has risen in price in sympathy with oil.
Not my sympathy for the customer but for the reviewer.
If you can't get past your own psychological hangups, you don't get any sympathy from me for your abominable actions.
His sympathy with poverty and suffering was instinctive and instant.
Some in the generations before them seem to feel little sympathy.
We extend our deepest sympathy to the entire family.
In this case, too, anger is tempered by sympathy for two individuals at the centre of the upheavals.
If you've ever tried to manage a huge amount of content, you will feel some sympathy for the government's position.
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