6 sentences with 'sympathy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sympathy and other words derived from it.
• « It seems that the Persian kings considered it very important to maintain an image of beneficence, of linking their power to sympathy for their subjects, rather than trying to terrorise their subjects into submission. »
• « Jean Calvin, a French lawyer exiled for his sympathy with Protestantism, settled in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1536. »
• « However, neither work inspired sympathy in the vast majority of the male population of France (or Britain), and as the revolution became more radical, members of the Assembly became increasingly hostile to the assertion of women's rights. »
• « Also, there was no sympathy in European (or American) culture for psychological problems. To be unable to function because of trauma was to be "weak" or "insane", with all the social and cultural stigma those terms invoked. »
• « In life, sympathy can be enough for the first 15 minutes. After that, you'd better know something. »
• « Time would show that he had neither the power to carry out his threats nor the sympathy of the Spanish-American peoples. »