sympathetic .

" Some public figures were more sympathetic.

His last years were embittered by controversies with men toward whom he was sympathetic.

Some onlookers were cowed rather than hostile and it appeared to the Volunteers that some of those watching in silence were sympathetic.

The film was a critical success, though some critics wondered about the social impact of a character that they saw as sympathetic.

Comparative negligence has also been criticized, since it would allow a plaintiff who is recklessly 95 % negligent to recover 5 % of the damages from the defendant, and often more when a jury is feeling sympathetic.

' His new Minister for Public Works, Davis Hughes, was even less sympathetic.

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said the actors coped " faultlessly " with what were difficult roles ; he called Spacey's performance " the energy that drives the film ", saying the actor commanded audience involvement despite Lester's not always being sympathetic.

Some academics and scholars have deemed her frivolous and superficial, and have attributed the start of the French Revolution to her ; however, others have claimed that she was treated unjustly and that views of her ought be more sympathetic.

There, many came to see him at the house of the imám jum ' ih, head of the local clergy, who became sympathetic.

He was, as a shipmate recorded, " a departure from our usual type of young officer ", content with his own company though not aloof, " spouting lines from Keats Browning ", a mixture of sensitivity and aggression but, withal, sympathetic.

The director said the design was " very faithful to the original, but updated ", and that the Gill-man will still be sympathetic.

He was unimpressed with Mason's performance and the character as written, calling it " hardly ever sympathetic.

The priest, Pierre Duben, was sympathetic.

In fact, shortly after the premiere in 1974, Lansky phoned Strasberg and congratulated him on a good performance ( Strasberg was nominated for an Oscar for his role ), but added " You could've made me more sympathetic.

He set out to make a crime film about truly " criminal " criminals – a revisionist modern-day Western populated with multi-layered characters whose actions are not motivated by backstories contrived to make them endearing and sympathetic.

However, the film is unique among fictional depictions of anarchists in that its tone is sympathetic.

His biographical studies, Franz von Assisi ( 1856 ; 2nd ed., 1892 ), Bushwick Bill ( 1864 ; 2nd ed., 1892 ), Caterina von Siena ( 1864 ), Neue Propheten ( Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Savonarola, Thomas Münzer ) are judicious and sympathetic.

Most merchants and state employees were also sympathetic.

I think this happens because the face of Tony Leung is so sympathetic.

Among the Conservatives, Quintin Hogg and Nigel Fisher were critical, while Hugh Fraser, Ronald Bell, Dudley Smith, and Harold Gurden were sympathetic.

For Wesley to work as a long-term character, Denisof claimed they had to re-shape the character to be more sympathetic.

In both these representations, Jane was shown as being a political tool in the hands of her husband's uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, although the presentation of her in The Other Boleyn Girl was more sympathetic.

Konstantin had been one of pre-war Germany's greatest actresses and her toxic presence in the Sebastian household triangle establishes her as the blackest of villains, allowing Alex to become even more sympathetic.

In contrast to Blood Simple, the characters of Raising Arizona were written to be very sympathetic.

While promoting Nights in Rodanthe, she expressed frustration with being typecast and stated that she was " gunning for something that's not so sympathetic.