Example collocations logo

Sympathy in sentence

566 examples of Sympathy in a sentence

The third is what you might call sympathy, the ability to work within groups.
The first time that I performed, the audience of teenagers hooted and hollered their sympathy, and when I came off the stage, I was shaking.
So I did and stood amazed every week when these brilliant, grown-up poets laughed with me and groaned their sympathy and clapped and told me, "Hey, I really felt that too."
Because, when people heard that my son was a victim, I got immediate sympathy.
But when people learned what her son was accused of, she didn't get that sympathy.
But you could feel sympathy for the reaction he had when he was told that his favorite painting was actually a forgery.
I do like sympathy.
We are deepened with the capacity for sympathy, for pity, imagination, compassion, commiseration.
Our circle of sympathy has been expanded by history, journalism and the narrative arts.
How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?
What is definitely uncontroversial is that, as I've said, we've got to stop being reactive, and more proactive, and I just want to leave you with one idea, which is that it's a provocative question for you to think about, and the answer will require sympathy with the devil.
But the effect of that presentation is, it appeals to sympathy.
I want to change those feelings you have for these birds, because they need our sympathy.
Once an issue pops up in your own backyard or amongst your own family, you're far more likely to explore sympathy for it or explore a new perspective on it.
During our eight-week pilot in English and Arabic, we reached over 300,000 people who had expressed an interest in or sympathy towards a jihadi group.
And even our best attempts to work up sympathy for those who are unconnected with us fall miserably short, a sad truth about human nature that was pointed out by Adam Smith.
These are referred to as "minimization strategies," and they're designed to convey sympathy and understanding to the suspect, and they imply that a confession will result in more lenient treatment.
Bill collectors call constantly, reading verbatim from a script before expressing polite sympathy for my plight and then demanding payment arrangements I can't possibly meet.
Now, I do not raise this issue to complain or in any way to elicit any kind of sympathy.
Then there's something that I call sympathy, a little more removed: "I'm sorry to hear that your grandmother has just passed away.
And then if we're motivated to act on sympathy, I call that compassion.
They may be a social mechanism to elicit sympathy or show submission.
And we would smile at each other in sympathy, this camaraderie of the doomed.
And now and then, I get some extra sympathy points, right?
Meanwhile, you have the TV bloggers going out on strike, in sympathy with the television writers.
They are interested in the abuse, in the killing, because they believe that will gain attention and sympathy.
And I have all the sympathy in the world for that point of view, because I used to think like that, too.
Their mistreatment, widely reported throughout the country, catapulted the parade into the public eye— and garnered suffragists greater sympathy.
Long after you get your last sympathy card or your last hot dish.
Conscientiousness and sympathy.
Next