When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.
When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.
I don't like sympathetic characters.
History is sympathetic to its authors.
And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.
My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.
Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.
Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.