empathetic
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Farrell is terrific, as always, as an empathetic gumshoe investigating a trail of crime and corruption that rings true to devotees of L.A. noir, from Raymond Chandler to “Chinatown” to Jordan Harper.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Jane Coates described her daughter Lucy Harrison as "energetic, very intelligent, funny and empathetic"
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
The paradox is that Lee’s movie is itself that conversation, its characters engaging in a series of arguments, evenhanded and empathetic, about how race affects the lives we lead in America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Our critic called it “an entertaining bio-doc that puts due emphasis on Oliver’s writing, in all its elegant and empathetic simplicity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Their authors often were adversaries of the Indians they wrote about, usually did not speak the necessary languages, and almost always had an agenda other than empathetic description of indigenous folkways.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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