sympathetic

Example Sentences

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But it’s to Raimi and the actors’ credit that they manage to make such an odious character as Bradley actually sympathetic — and so clear a heroine as Linda complex and thorny.

From Los Angeles Times

In recent years, changes in culture, technology and the music industry have opened up conversations casting Rob and Fab in a more sympathetic light.

From Los Angeles Times

Many Mexicans, once sympathetic to Cuba, feel Mexico’s highly indebted state oil company can’t continue to indefinitely support the Cuban government.

From The Wall Street Journal

There, he earned a reputation as a piercingly thorough interviewer of victims and witnesses—but also an uncommonly gentle and sympathetic one.

From The Wall Street Journal

She gives him a sympathetic look but says nothing more.

From Literature