That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

Some " unfree " gladiators bequeathed money and personal property to wives and children, possibly via a sympathetic owner or familia ; some had their own slaves and gave them their freedom.

When decades later Prokofiev wrote about his lessons with Glière, he gave due credit to Glière's sympathetic qualities as a teacher but complained that Glière had introduced him to " square " phrase structure and conventional modulations which he subsequently had to unlearn.

Julian and Sandy and their use of the gay slang polari gave the country a sympathetic weekly portrayal of non-threatening openly gay characters, many of whose catchphrases passed into everyday usage.

While early Eurocentric Westerns frequently portray the " Injuns " as dishonorable villains, the later and more culturally neutral Westerns ( notably those directed by John Ford ) gave native Americans a more sympathetic treatment.

In the early 1940s, Gollancz was sympathetic to Richard Acland's socialist Common Wealth Party, and gave talks for the group before the general election of 1945.

These fragments disappointed Romantic scholars as not matching the writer's great reputation, partly because Fronto's teachings, with their emphasis on studying ancient writers in search of striking words, were not in accordance with current fashion ( Italy, where not only Mai but Leopardi enthused over them, was an exception ), partly because they gave no support to the assumption that Fronto had been a wise counsellor to Marcus Aurelius ( indeed, they contain no trace of political advice ), partly because his frequent complaints about ill-health, especially those collected in book 5 of Ad M. Caesarem, aroused more annoyance than compassion ; these adverse judgements were reversed once Fronto was read for what he was rather than what he was not, as already in the sympathetic treatment by Dorothy Brock, Studies in Fronto and his Age ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911 ).

This gave the Viet Minh forces, now almost completely made up of members of the Vietnam Communist Party a safe haven for organization and training, as well as an initially sympathetic ally to provide them with arms and logistical support.

A number of project members — some high-profile — voluntarily gave secret information to Soviet agents, many because they were ardent communists or were sympathetic to the Soviet Union's role in the war and did not feel the U. S. should have a monopoly on atomic weapons.

There were probably more compositions than the existing ones ( in the Oswald Jonas Memorial Collection at the University of California at Riverside ), although dedications on the published compositions indicate who were sympathetic and possibly gave money to enable Schenker's works to be published.

Rae later joked that Kefauver gave him a $ 20 tip one Christmas, whereas Pat Nixon only gave him a quarter and made him more sympathetic to Democrats from that moment.

While engaged, about 1851, in examining the effects produced in the temperature of various parts of the body by section of the nerve or nerves belonging to them, he noticed that division of the cervical sympathetic gave rise to more active circulation and more forcible pulsation of the arteries in certain parts of the head, and a few months afterwards he observed that electrical excitation of the upper portion of the divided nerve had the contrary effect.

The New York Times gave the film a positive review ( despite calling Ray's trademark sympathetic eye to rebels and criminals " misguided ") and acclaimed Ray for " good, realistic production and sharp direction ... Mr. Ray has an eye for action details.

The travel brought him into contact with many intelligent people sympathetic with the cause of Aboriginal rights, and gave him the opportunity to lecture on Aboriginal culture and rights.

The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a good review and wrote, " In a Lonely Place Humphrey Bogart has a sympathetic role though cast as one always ready to mix it with his dukes.

One characterized him as " Feeble in body, conceited, frivolous, and dissipated, but withal generous and sympathetic ... man who gave himself up to a life of pleasure ".

Although not initially familiar with the ' new jazz ' movement, Thiele proved to be a relaxed, sympathetic and open-minded producer who backed the creative choices of his artists, afforded them unprecedented freedom in their choice of repertoire, and gave leading acts like Coltrane virtual carte blanche in the studio.

Aubin Paul of Punknews. org gave the album four and a half stars out of five, complimenting the band's ability to work in more mature subject matter while still maintaining the childish and self-deprecating humor that " is almost impossible to find anything but endearing and sympathetic.

Bret Fetzer of Amazon. com also gave a positive review, noting that the movie " could have been trite schmaltz, but the script has some grit and the direction is fresh and relaxed -- and, most significantly, Spears is far more sympathetic and engaging than you might expect ".

As a general rule, in the thorax and abdomen, general visceral afferent ( GVA ) pain fibers follow sympathetic fibers back to the same spinal cord segments that gave rise to the preganglionic sympathetic fibers.

Pauline Kael gave the film a very positive review in The New Yorker: " Jonathan Demme's lyrical comedy Melvin and Howard which opened the New York Film Festival on September 26, is an almost flawless act of sympathetic imagination.

In his memoirs, he wrote: " My audience usually was crowded and the feedback of sympathetic listeners gave me strength ... my lectures I was giving spontaneously, to bring freshness to the subject ...

She gave a fine portrayal of Auntie Mame on Broadway in 1958 and has appeared in live television from `` Captain Brassbound's Conversion '' to `` Camille ''.

Many in Hollywood said the SNL sketch inadvertently gave a portrayal of the real Sam Peckinpah.

Nielsen's portrayal of comedic characters seemingly oblivious to ( and complicit in ) their absurd surroundings gave him a reputation as a comedian.

This pregnancy was not a hindrance to her work, as Witherspoon believed the gestation had in fact helped her portrayal of Sharp's character: " I love the luminosity that pregnancy brings, I love the fleshiness, I love the ample bosom — it gave me much more to play with ", she said.

Berchán gave a negative portrayal of Kenneth II as well, calling him " the Fratricide ", who " would bring danger on everyone ".

Following a performance of Arthur Laurents ' The Time of the Cuckoo, a local review by the Los Angeles Times wrote that " roguish-looking, eight-year-old Keith Green gave a winning portrayal " as " the little Italian street urchin, Mauro "; another review commented that he " stole the show ".

Hope And Glory, a BBC television drama featuring actor / comedian Lenny Henry, gave an insight into a fictional portrayal of teachers dealing with a school in Special Measures.

The Credentials Committee televised its proceedings, which allowed the nation to see and hear the testimony of the MFDP delegates, particularly the testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer, who gave a moving and evocative portrayal of her hard brutalized life as a sharecropper on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta and the retaliation inflicted on her for trying to register to vote.

The cartoon gave more distinctive looks and personalities to the three chipmunks than just their voices, and an animated portrayal of Seville was a reasonable caricature of Bagdasarian himself.

Samuel Hopkins Adams in 1905 showed the fraud involved in many patent medicines, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle ( 1906 ) was a novel that gave a horrid portrayal of how meat was packed, and David Graham Phillips unleashed a blistering indictment of the U. S. Senate in 1906.

Online critics have not been very kind to the film after its release on DVD, finding Flynn's portrayal rather stiff in comparison to the performances he gave in his more famous swashbucklers.

The film gave considerable offence in South Africa due the harsh portrayal of English and Dutch characters.

Two years later, again at the Mermaid, McCowen gave a portrayal of the British poet Rudyard Kipling in a one-man play by Brian Clark, performed in a setting that exactly matched Kipling's own study at Bateman's ( his Jacobean rustic haven in Sussex ) " and turning ", as Michael Billington wrote, " an essentially private man into a performer.

Alyn gave the Man of Steel a different portrayal to Clark Kent, adding to the element of disguise.

Roger Ebert gave it a one-half star rating, criticizing it for excessive use of vulgar language and demeaning portrayal of women, describing it as a " train wreck " and finishing his review by bluntly stating " This film is not in a releaseable condition ".

" Noted film critic Pauline Kael gave the production and Olivier's portrayal one of her most glowing reviews, shaming the major movie studios for giving Olivier so little money to make the film that he and the public had to be content with what was almost literally a filmed stage production, while other films received multimillion dollar budgets.

Her graphic portrayal of Brandon Teena in " Boys Don't Cry " ( 1999 ) gave no hint as to whether or not she could pull off a 18th-century drama complete with feathered hats and tight corsets.

In the radio adaptations of Dad's Army, Graham Stark stood in until Larry Martyn gave his portrayal of Walker for subsequent shows.

Frank Brennan's son, the author Niall Brennan, gave a favourable portrayal of Wren in his 1971 biography, John Wren: Gambler.

No official reason for the censorship was given, but unofficial sources within China have indicated that the character gave a negative and stereotypical portrayal of the Chinese people.

However, his profile with the company was considerably raised when he gave a much lauded portrayal of Escamillo in Georges Bizet's Carmen in 1961 ; a role he performed with the company again in 1964.

When he gave Hamlet in London, his portrayal was said to equal that of Edmund Kean.

He gave a hilarious portrayal of a simple, nosey man who drank too much and who adored nothing more than talking nonsense as long as anyone could stand it.