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  • I was about to give some money to a young lad, then I saw his sign, "Need money to blog" and while I feel sympathic to the compulsive bloggers, it turned me off when I saw the Interac sign on his cardboard.

    Travelling panhandlers can f--k right off Tyler 2009

  • I remember seeing the movie, Protype, when I was little and it had a really sympathic robot starring David Morse.

    MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction? 2010

  • I liked the dark atmosphere of the film and its strange characters specially Francis which is really sympathic.

    Buddy Boy–a review | clusterflock 2009

  • The worst offenders, for many reactionaries, are the writers and narratives of Modernism, where we see autonomy asserted most strongly and stubbornly in a complete refusal to compromise complexity and an insistence on the validity of art (as the making of meaning) as a project unbeholden to any sympathic, ethical or moral principle -- art for art's sake rather than for entertainment or edification.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008

  • In the absence of direct authority, where a speaker cannot simply command obedience in response to an exhortation, emotional and/or intellectual accord (sympathy and/or agreement in principle) can offer an indirect authority in the form of mutually recognised sympathic, ethical or moral imperatives.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008

  • Wouldn't Ibáñez Serrador's point have been made more profoundly and more complexly if we had been brought to see the little demons as sympathic and justified, while the adults deserved their fate?

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • Wouldn't Ibáñez Serrador's point have been made more profoundly and more complexly if we had been brought to see the little demons as sympathic and justified, while the adults deserved their fate?

    Who Can Kill a Child? 2010

  • The character was notable for being brash and erratic, and is considered by some to be annoying with few sympathic personality characteristics such as Bugs Bunny's nobility or Daffy Duck's pathos.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • She is truly a friend to all, willing to zip a zipper, touch up the makeup or lend a sympathic shoulder when there are boyfriend troubles.

    Viola Beauty Pageant 2010 « Fairegarden 2010

  • In effect we have principles of power and privilege: approbation and modesty become disapproval and sanctimony; tact is inverted into the brusque judgementalism of an overseer entitled to critique their underling; generosity is replaced by reminders of duty; disagreement and antipathy are emphasised to highlight the sympathic, ethical or moral failures of the underling.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008

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