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she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.
Carpenter's article served as the basis of Bob Fosse's film Star 80 ( 1983 ), in which Bogdanovich, for legal reasons, was portrayed as the fictional director " Aram Nicholas ," a sympathetic but possibly misguided and naive character.
Similarly, Douglas Clegg's Mordred, Bastard Son portrays the character as not only sympathetic but heroic ( he and Lancelot save Guinevere from a murderous plot ), and in a new twist, he is Lancelot's lover.
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The girls were sympathetic but as confused as Ballard herself, whom they had considered strong-willed and unflappable.
Georgia Christgau of the Village Voice called the documentary " sympathetic but frank.
" As the sympathetic but non-Mormon historian Jan Shipps has written, " When the first generation of leadership died off, leaving the community to be guided mainly by men who had not known Joseph, the First Vision emerged as a symbol that could keep the slain Mormon leader at center stage.
A book by an obscure English artist, George Melhuish, uses Lupasco ’ s ideas to develop his own concept of the structure of the universe, a sympathetic but not very rigorous reading of his work.
However Liberal candidate Peter Reith overstated his anti-dam position, and the Labor candidate only reflected federal Labor's sympathetic but ineffectual No Dams platform.
Now out of print, it is a sympathetic but not uncritical biography.
Sweden's Social Democrats had the year before purged the revolutionaries from the party, and were sympathetic but unsupportive of the socialist republic in Finland.
Literary critics cast Heyward as an authority on Southern black life, later writing, " Heyward's attention to detail and reality of the Southern black's lifestyle was not only sympathetic but something that no one had ever seen done before.
Many black leaders found him sympathetic but unwilling to take meaningful action to address their concerns.
As Walker carries on the search himself ( with input from a very sympathetic but wary desk clerk at the hotel ), he stumbles onto a murder scene and then encounters the streetwise young Michelle ( Emmanuelle Seigner ), who had mistakenly picked up his wife's suitcase at the airport.
He also took a more sympathetic but still distant view of Maiorescu.
Judge Hathaway had three adult children: Julian ( James Mitchell ), a professor of literature at the local university, Kate ( Diana van der Vlis ), a sympathetic but sexually repressed law student, and Allison ( Louise Shaffer ), the liberated black sheep of the family.
Famed playwright Sidney Bruhl debuts the latest in a series of Broadway flops and returns to his opulent Long Island home and his sympathetic but sick wife, Myra.
Congresswoman Flora Blackford announces the Confederacy's crimes to the world, only to receive scathing comparisons with Utah from the Entente and sympathetic but indifferent reactions from U. S. citizens.
In the original play, the character was not sympathetic but Huston rewrote the character, wanting more complexity and sympathy.
She has a long-standing attraction to Miles ; he is aware of it and is sympathetic but does not feel the same way.
Manchester paints a sympathetic but balanced portrait of MacArthur, praising the general for his military genius, administrative skill, and personal bravery, while criticizing his vanity, paranoia, and tendency toward insubordination.
Meanwhile, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was highly sympathetic but remained a Democrat.
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