Using "sympathy" in a sentence

No line is, accordingly, drawn between sympathy for those persecuted in the past and an all-out celebration of contemporary behavior at odds with Christian morality.
Source: Catholic Review of Baltimore

This is a belief in human compassion, empathy, and sympathy for all people—a degree of humanism that Putin clearly lacks.
Source: Foreign Policy Research Institute

It does not, though, detract from the wider force and sympathy of the story being told.
Source: The Guardian

But the Frenchman holds no grudges and has spoken out in sympathy for embattled team boss Jérôme Pineau.
Source: Cyclingnews

It is literally impossible for me to feel sympathy for a billionaire.
Source: Inhabitat

This message of thanks or congratulations or sympathy comes not from some staff person or some machine but directly from me.
Source: The Atlantic

The traditional health care system thrives off efficiency: The more patients move through an office, the more the provider gets paid, resulting in brief appointments and little sympathy for circumstances that make patients late.
Source: KPBS

Maybe most notably, in 2016, Microsoft released its “Tay” chatbot on Twitter to learn from users’ conversations, only to have the artificial intelligence transform into a racist asshole espousing sympathy for Hitler within 24 hours.
Source: Gizmodo

Certainly, there was little sympathy for the “desperados” behind the attacks – although now, of course, suffrage is something that, in Britain, we hold dear.
Source: The Telegraph

And while part of that is certainly that these are complex issues and not easy investigations to carry out, it's also hard to avoid the feeling that there's some real complicity or some real sympathy with these figures within many parts of the military and police establishment in Germany.
Source: NPR

In her maiden speech to parliament in October, Meloni said she has "never felt any sympathy for regimes, fascism included," and that Italy's anti-Semitic racial laws of 1938 had been "the lowest point of Italian history, a shame that will taint our people forever.
Source: Reuters

'There's no sympathy whatsoever from any of them,' said Chrissy Hicks.
Source: Daily Mail

And this fear is a one fear that evokes a genuine sympathy for the people trapped in this tragic tableau vivant and a genuine anguish by play’s end at having felt that sympathy for such people.
Source: The Chicago Maroon

I have some sympathy for Nicola’s frustration at her position among the Aes Sedai—she is new to the Aes Sedai life, after all.
Source: tor.com

There is sympathy for Chinese organisers who have endured several three-week quarantines and little time with their families.
Source: The Guardian

The brutality of the crackdown prompted Badri Hosseini Khamenei, the estranged sister of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to publish a letter on December 6 expressing sympathy with mothers who have lost their loved ones because of their opposition to the Islamic republic in the last four decades and declared that she opposes the actions of her brother.
Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

The six-hour Netflix vanity project, starring and produced by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, is only effective at evoking sympathy for the central couple.
Source: IndieWire

Bianca Kronlöf as one of the leads and a number of the supporting cast, particularly Willjam Lempling as Tom, are just too good for you to feel anything but sympathy for.
Source: EyeForFilm

RELATED: ‘Dark times deserve f**king great light’: Kevin Hart Defends Will Smith, Asks Chris Rock to Move on Because Will Smith’s Reason Why ‘African-Americans attached to global IP is normal’ Will Smith’s fans expressed their love and sympathy for the actor.
Source: FandomWire

Giménez-Cacho finds sympathy in Silverio’s identity crisis, and it’s fascinating to feel both the push and pull of Iñárritu‘s approach.
Source: Columbus Underground

Interestingly, her tootsie tapestry didn’t elicit much sympathy from the ‘Gram commentariat.
Source: New York Post

The further away I get from “Breaking Bad,” the less sympathy I have for Walter.
Source: The New Yorker

We extend our deepest sympathy to his wife, Deborah, and the entire Perry family.
Source: MASNsports.com

Shiba Inu SHIB/USD was sliding over 2% lower during Wednesday’s 24-hour trading session, in sympathy with Bitcoin BTC/USD, Ethereum ETH/USD and Dogecoin DOGE/USD, which were slipping 2%, 3% and 4%, respectively.
Source: SHIBA INU Benzinga

As a revered Buddhist nun and Dharma teacher, she has has been a key figure in the development of modern Taiwanese Buddhism, expressing the deeply held belief that all people are capable of manifesting the same great compassion as the Buddha—and noting that true compassion is not simply feeling sympathy for the suffering of others, but is found in reaching out to relieve suffering with concrete action.
Source: Buddhistdoor Global

It then crashed in sympathy with the COVID-19 tech selloff.
Source: Yahoo Finance

The traditional health care system thrives off efficiency: The more patients move through an office, the more the provider gets paid, resulting in brief appointments and little sympathy for circumstances that make patients late.
Source: Jefferson Public Radio

You may also feel more sympathy for others now, particularly those who are in hospital or in some type of institutionalised setting such as a parent in aged care.
Source: Daily Mail

It almost does provoke proper sympathy for Pucci.
Source: CNBC Television

But I felt such a deep sympathy for the struggle of Brendan’s character and for the lengths that he had to go to find this peace, this solitude, so that he could reckon with his own mortality.
Source: Variety

This probably wasn’t aided by that great bastion of accurate F1 storyline portrayals, Netflix series Drive to Survive – which even aired an “I don’t have sympathy for him” from Norris in its official trailer for Season 4 – latching onto perceived tensions between the pair.
Source: The Race

It is, of course, in part because there will be sympathy for anyone who has such an insidious disease.
Source: New York Post

Ben Bromley and Call Me Lord eased up after being first past the winning post at Sandown, only to soon realise that all was not as it seemed in the £25,000 race A top jockey isn't getting any sympathy from irate punters after being banned from racing for riding to the wrong winning post at Sandown.
Source: The Mirror

Santa’s sympathy for the youngest hostage, Trudy (Leah Brady), snaps him into going medieval on these villains by tapping into his dark origins, which we learn nothing about.
Source: Willamette Week

  You'll need to trump that sympathy card before it's played.
Source: SFGATE

Poor Fraser is the only one I would have sympathy for after making that nurse-doctor mistake.
Source: Vulture

The overarching feeling I get from that work is a sympathy for peoples’ experience of life.
Source: Stuff

Memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.
Source: The Chattanoogan

  That scene, almost a full story in itself, is in sharp contrast to the rest of the film, which is well-intentioned but poorly constructed, counting on sympathy for characters who seem to be living in an alternate universe where teenagers have never struggled with mental illness.
Source: Roger Ebert

  That kind of sympathy extended to minor villains, who were so transformed by this series they often were introduced back into the comics with their new backstories.
Source: Roger Ebert

In theory, we are meant to pity him or at least find sympathy for his physical and psychological plight by the film's conclusion.
Source: Roger Ebert

But these days, they hang back out of a mix of intimidation and sympathy for neighbours made desperate by the pandemic.
Source: Al Jazeera English

Her inner life is not dramatized, only described in exchanges with a therapist whose sympathy cannot entirely conceal his bewilderment at many of her comments about her mind and the world.
Source: The Daily Beast

Even when they’re terrible people, you can usually find a little sympathy amongst their awfulness.
Source: TheSixthAxis

I can have sympathy for someone who is sick BUT if you’re in a position where you can’t be around people you probably should have stayed home.
Source: Disney Dining

He wrote an eloquent letter recently, taking one last shot at finding sympathy from the commissioner.
Source: The Athletic

During the whole saga earlier in the season with Vinicius Jnr, it was hard not to side with him, in that his dancing after scoring was an expression of himself, not something to show off with, but it’s hard to find sympathy for this Brazil team, as if they’re completely focused on proving the wrong points to the critics.
Source: Football365

The media’s treatment of Meghan — and what the couple felt was a lack of sympathy from royal institutions about the coverage — were at the heart of their complaints when they walked away from royal life almost three years ago and moved to Southern California.
Source: Business Wire

But even conservative justices who had previously voiced some sympathy with the independent state legislature theory seemed frustrated with Thompson’s insistence on making aggressive arguments for legislative power instead of offering more measured interpretations.
Source: The Atlantic

Farrell, in what may be his most accomplished film performance, draws our sympathy with such ease.
Source: Chronogram

Smith, his charm deeply buried and his lower jaw thrust defiantly forward, gives a grim, committed performance that elicits our sympathy since he’s mostly asked to convey suffering and perseverance as he fights off snakes, bees, dogs, alligators, and the men who relentlessly pursue him.
Source: The A.V. Club

In his follow-up film, Dhont demonstrates a greater understanding of and sympathy for his protagonists, though viewers should be cautioned that the film does include upsetting content.
Source: Belgium’s Oscar Submission ‘Close’ is a Tender, Upsetting Story of Childhood Friendship Cinemadailyus.com

AdvertisementBut especially in a winter when soaring rents and heating costs are a recurring topic of conversation, many people seem reluctant to extend much sympathy to the rebel royals — and don’t buy their argument that the Metropolitan Police should be responsible for their protection when in Britain.
Source: The Washington Post

I have a lot of sympathy for this brand of terror.
Source: Volume One

" Cleanliness was next to godliness for Danny Tanner When Danny Tanner — the talk show host single father whom Bob Saget embodied for eight seasons of "Full House" on ABC — wasn't making audiences sigh and cry in sympathy as he tried to support his kids and friends through the lumps and bumps of life's many changes with wise speeches, he was making them cackle.
Source: Looper

This sparks sympathy from savior Albie, who can’t resist helping this wounded bird (just his type, as he says in Episode 2).
Source: Variety

The judge’s recent decisions also suggest he bears some sympathy for the hundreds of pro-Trump rioters who are facing charges in connection with the Capitol attack.
Source: The New York Times

It’s what they’re setting out to do but that’s just not a reasonable thing to expect of a kid, I guess, unless you stuff them in front of a screen but why are we doing this? I have sympathy on one hand, obviously, as a parent.
Source: VinePair

READ MORE: Brian May fumed at Adam Lambert criticism: 'Don't belong here!' Blur's Damon Albarn credits parents 'lack of sympathy' in childhood full of 'bullying' (Image: GETTY) Damon credits his parents for their harsh approach (Image: GETTY)"My parents never had any sympathy for me, ever.
Source: Express

 Those are his operating principles, and it makes him a sympathetic villain while also maintaining the sympathy of Cochran.
Source: Indie Film Hustle

  It’s not clear if The Liver King will ever be able to bounce back from the scandal as many users are regarding everything he has said or will say as untruthful, with many viewers commenting on his video with their lack of sympathy while also claiming to see the truth for what it is now.
Source: NBC News

Taylor Marshall expressed sympathy for the video editors, tweeting, "Somebody had to professionally edit this.
Source: Fox News

The court’s three liberals were extremely hostile to the theory during oral arguments, while the three other conservatives have signaled sympathy for a muscular version of the theory, both in previous writings and during arguments in front of the court on Wednesday.
Source: POLITICO

Some of its conservatives, including Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, indicated sympathy towards the Republican arguments.
Source: Al Jazeera English

When our youngest son was killed five weeks before his 19th birthday, we received hundreds of notes and sympathy cards.
Source: The Washington Post

(Netflix)The media’s treatment of Markle, 41 — and what the couple felt was a lack of sympathy from royal institutions about the coverage — were at the heart of their complaints when they walked away from royal life almost three years ago and moved to Southern California.
Source: Fox News

However, the villainous Wheaton concocts a lie about his grandmother's passing as the reason for his absence at the convention to garner sympathy from Sheldon, who throws the game.
Source: Looper

Indeed, the plant people were up and posting: gardeners bragging on their successes, seeking sympathy for their failures, or guidance on locating a plant.
Source: The Anniston Star

Abnesti presents himself as an affable, kind man, but he expertly manipulates and lies to those around him (including assistant Verlaine, played by Mark Paguio); he knows how to feign sympathy and concern while leveraging the situation for personal benefit.
Source: /Film

Because chlorine is widely available, Syria frequently blamed the rebels themselves, accusing them of gassing their own neighborhoods in “false-flag” attacks to win sympathy and support from the West.
Source: The Washington Post

It’s strange to feel sympathy for a video game, an inanimate object with no thoughts or feelings, but here I am anyway.
Source: The Spinoff

Stacey Dash isn't receiving much sympathy online despite posting a TikTok video of herself in tears.
Source: Newsweek

With sympathy and verve, Ricks also describes other episodes in which racial dissidents broadened the boundaries of racial fairness.
Source: The American Prospect

There may be unique scenarios or extenuating circumstances (health of a team manager, family emergency, etc) that warrant sympathy and rules modification, but those are likely to be extremely rare.
Source: Weighing in on Pham/Pederson feud ESPN

And he mentions that some of the family members didn't feel sympathy for Meghan being hunted by paparazzi because their wives also had to go through that, though Harry says Meghan's situation was different because of racism toward her.
Source: CNET

At one point in development, instead of hiding out with Castor's criminal accomplices, Archer would have found refuge in his enemy's childhood home and come away from the experience with new sympathy for the man he's sworn to bring to justice.
Source: Looper

Humanizing Thomas and Margaret too much risks inviting sympathy for the devil.
Source: TV Guide

‘It is meticulous work but at the same time it is very creative’, says artisan Every piece is created in sympathy with the image, which is always taken from a painting by a well-known artist Pic: Puzzle Michèle WilsonThe only company to make wooden jigsaws by hand in Europe – Puzzle Michèle Wilson – is French.
Source: The Connexion

Badri Khamenei’s letter, published on her son's Twitter account on December 6, expressed sympathy to the mothers who lost their loved ones because of their opposition to the Islamic republic in the last four decades and declared that she opposes the actions of her brother.
Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Marysia came and gave him sympathy which he understood as love, and tried to kiss her.
Source: A Dull Journey | MOVIESR.NET Midgard Times

Meanwhile, the Woodland Alliance’s mice spread sympathy among the residents of the forest, fomenting uprisings that burn down the Marquis de Cat’s industries and sabotaging the other players whenever possible.
Source: The New York Times

If the world becomes theater, he worried, our powers of sympathy will diminish.
Source: The Yale Review

I’d had great sympathy for Tanya in the first season, for all the ways she was human, including her ability to be dreadful to the staff.
Source: Variety

Truman’s unschooled, salt-of-the-earth pose was not always what the moment called for, but this nuanced biography has sympathy for a man whose Everyman pragmatism often put him at odds with advisers who thought that they were better than he was.
Source: The New Yorker

And their gradual winning over of their distant family’s sympathy provides interest beyond the sparkly, nasty energy of the swapped insults.
Source: Variety

Hopper, Guinan, Freeman, Davis, and Torres are back from previous productions, and are at all at ease in the way they can angle their characters one way to make you feel sympathy and another toward revulsion and dread.
Source: Vulture

He said in the interview that he had not encountered any "Russophobia" among his fellow inmates, adding that "basically almost all of my prisoner neighbours had some kind of sympathy for Russia.
Source: Barron's

The psychic seems to be the only person who sees Blanca clearly – and with sympathy – straight away.
Source: EyeForFilm

The lower payouts to bankers may not inspire much sympathy outside finance.
Source: Yahoo Finance

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