Rather than bombarding an audience with aggression, both are deeply sympathetic comedians who peer at the world with a bewildered innocence.

My dad was deeply sympathetic.

King's genius lies in his ability to create deeply sympathetic characters, even bringing us to see the tragic side of his villains.

I am deeply sympathetic to their cause.

Written more than a decade after her return, she managed to transform her more painful experiences into deeply sympathetic and engaging fiction.

As problems are others' to resolve, make sympathetic noises but stick to the sidelines.

Politicians must also deliver more than sympathetic noises.

Give a hug and sympathetic noises.

When these issues arise, make sympathetic noises, but do no more.

She smiled, she waved, she made sympathetic noises to people who had stood in the cold for hours for the privilege of meeting her.

A flurry of sympathetic response follows the birth but soon fades.

Your sympathetic response proves that customers who are dealt a poor hand are mostly not whingey and difficult, but simply want to be heard.

It has agreed to waive it and apologised that you were not given 'a more sympathetic response'.

The acerbic playwright's sympathetic response?

He did not get a terribly sympathetic response.

The parasympathetic nervous system cancels out the sympathetic system with its calming effect.

The investigation of the pharmacology of epinephrine made a major contribution to the understanding of the autonomic system and the function of the sympathetic system.

There are two kinds of neurons involved in the transmission of any signal through the sympathetic system: pre- and post-ganglionic.

Upon increase in carbon dioxide level at central chemoreceptors, it stimulates the sympathetic system to constrict vessels.

Loss of sympathetic system input to the blood vessels causes them to get larger (vasodilation) which has the effect of lowering blood pressure.

Neither partisan nor judgemental, the author commendably preserves a detached yet sympathetic tone throughout.

I asked the whey-faced local behind the fryer, in a sympathetic tone.

Essentially, physiologic parameters are measured in order to assess sympathetic tone as a surrogate measure of stress.

This drop causes reversible decreases in thyroid activity, sympathetic tone, and energy expenditure in skeletal muscle, and increases in muscle efficiency and parasympathetic tone.

Central nervous system disorders can lead to increased sympathetic tone and/or catecholamine release, which lead to cardiac overstimulation.

His prescriptions are poetic, revealing a profoundly sympathetic understanding of the human condition.

Half the carriage looked up in sympathetic understanding.

You will find sympathetic understanding but seek it now before your health deteriorates further.

Absolute fairness and sympathetic understanding characterized his dealings not only with his equals but with those under him.

The ensemble numbers evidenced her intelligent and sympathetic understanding of orchestral effects, which charmed the appreciative audience.

Not everyone, however, takes such a sympathetic view.

Read the ad quickly and you might be inclined to take a sympathetic view.

A similarly sympathetic view prevails in more recent literature.

The book's enduring popularity, however, has as much to do with a critical yet sympathetic view of human nature and the human condition.

It also promoted a more sympathetic view of the intellectual, emotional and social capacities of animals.