sympathetic
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“Clayface” wants to tell a sympathetic villain origin story like “Joker” or the TV miniseries “The Penguin.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Jerod Weiman, Grinnell’s chair of computer science, told MarketWatch he is sympathetic about the career anxieties that students in his department are currently feeling.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
But what “Lanterns” does with John Stewart delineates the divide between sympathetic and empathetic storytelling.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
You root for the right people in “Unabomber,” even if the heroine is fictional and the talented Mr. Tremblay makes youthful frustration and rage a bit too sympathetic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Once sympathetic to slaveholders, Van Buren is not an abolitionist but joins those who oppose slavery’s expansion in favor of free, white workers.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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