How To Use Empathy In A Sentence

  • Furthermore, developmental psychologists found evidence that self-recognition correlates with empathy.
  • Another is that our empathy appears to be limited to those we identify as part of our own family or tribe. Times, Sunday Times
  • Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too. Archive 2009-02-01
  • The writer of the poems marks parental rejection with astounding empathy.
  • It's all about empathy - picturing yourself as the mighty prehistoric beast. The Sun
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  • And the Puli will often show great sensitivity to the human's moods and feelings, actively communicating empathy.
  • Not just the actual sodomites like myself, but the Sapphic Sisterhood, the Hamite Alliance, the League of Heathens and Infidels, Atheists Anonymous, a whole panoply of progressive thinkers, aligned and unaligned, to whom your rant reads as the ethically repugnant ravings of a sociopath, given that it has so little concern for aforesaid "empathy". An Open Letter to John C. Wright
  • They spin it and say “empathy for fellowed disfavored” but there were other goals they sought to accomplish here. You Are Nothing Without Your Robot. Nothing. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • But this particular morning, my tears were salted with frustration and exhaustion as my body and soul crumpled, overwhelmed by the weight of empathy. Christianity Today
  • ACOSTA: During the primaries, Obama got tagged with the label elitist after a series of gaffes that suggested a lack of empathy for blue-collar voters. CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008
  • Dramatic mental failures of this sort shade into failures of empathy, a deficit found in many sociopaths, who also show reduced function of the frontal cortices.
  • One could not mistake his warm empathy for the place, for his splendid vision of a small world of learning and research embracing both sides of that famous backwoods river, the Otonabee, deep in the heart of eastern Ontario.
  • His empathy is one of his advantages. Times, Sunday Times
  • To make policy requires empathy, imagination and a firm grasp of statistics and probable outcomes. Times, Sunday Times
  • What became of literature's vaunted power to inspire empathy?
  • As I understand it it can all be sorted out, but you are — I suspect unintentionally and in good faith — offering a bit of a straw man due to your not distinguishing a few key concepts, such as prudentialism versus constitutional judgment, empathy for a legal injustice versus sympathy resulting in bias, and a judge versus a justice. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
  • Among the violence, there are also moments of empathy and humanity, which shine out like a beacon.
  • Christopher is mathematically gifted, but socially incapable, finding the simplest emotional empathy unfathomable.
  • Empathy here has been reframed as emotion that is "idiosyncratic" -- personal -- a danger to reason. George Lakoff: Empathy, Sotomayor, and Democracy: The Conservative Stealth Strategy
  • In my chapter on FDR in American Caesars, I've written of FDR's first term, FDR's empathy with the lot of ordinary Americans was the quality that raised him head and shoulders above his contemporaries. Nigel Hamilton: The Meltdown -- and After
  • Young girls typically play with one or two other girls in activities that foster their ‘learning emotional skills of empathy, emotional self-awareness, and emotional expressivity.’
  • St Francis is a saint normally associated with peaceful, eremetic living and an overwhelming empathy for the animal kingdom. Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG
  • They have something called projective empathy, according to these tapes, and they can use it to make you feel anything they want you to feel. Teams A Terran Empire story
  • He interlaced the death of an actual bruin with an American storytelling tradition that used the moment of extermination to build and express cross-species empathy.
  • Yet beyond the brass, many successful dealmakers possess an enviable skill set - vision, confidence, perseverance, focus, even empathy.
  • Her experiences gave her a sense of empathy and responsibility, she says.
  • So, analogies to ordinary prudentialism fail to capture the decisions and, I think, the opportunities / necessity for empathy informed judgment that a member of the Supreme Courtfaces. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
  • Plus, after marching through the Kübler-Ross stages of bad-review grief from "future generations will recognize my genius!" to "they're just jealous!" to sulky acceptance, we can console ourselves with the belief that professional critics bring to their work some instinctual empathy for the artists under review -- an understanding of the passion and elbow grease that go into any sustained work of creativity, no matter the quality of the final product. Ben H. Winters: Why I Give Everything Five Stars
  • The nurse should try to develop empathy between herself and the patient.
  • The lack of empathy for the characters and corpse-like coldness permeating both the look and feel of the picture make it a tough film to connect with.
  • Márai is in the almost unique position of having attained posthumous best-sellerdom (in country after country) because he distills plot and description to a magic essence of atmosphere, empathy and narrative tension that no European writer has achieved since Joseph Roth. Embers: Summary and book reviews of Embers by Sandor Marai.
  • Instead, we listened to tributes that limned his capacity to touch and generosity of spirit, his impact, his love of words, his insatiable curiosity and, most importantly, the empathy and warmth that fueled his writing and the relationships in which he luxuriated. Andrew S. Doctoroff: The Last Lecture Given by Our Good Friend Jeff Zaslow
  • Empathy is the missing psychological link in people who commit hate crimes and other atrocities.
  • Yet I've always admired Doctor Who; not only for its values of intellect and empathy, but also for its often overlooked ability to explore deistic themes – both in the show and through the ardent devotion of fans. Does Doctor Who feature a god for our times? | Stephen Kelly
  • I do not think it correct to use the term 'empathy' as the ability to gauge someone's feelings from a picture," said Dr. Kent Holtorf, founder of Holtorf Medical Group, which has offices in Foster City, Calif., Torrance, Calif. and St. Joseph, Mo. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • “objectivity” amounts to in this connection, let us notice that in Husserl's eyes something like empathy also forms the basis of both our practical, aesthetical and moral evaluations and of what might be called intercultural understanding, i.e., the constitution of a Edmund Husserl
  • Telempathy, as powerful as it is, is primarily noncognitive. World Wide Mind
  • The beauty of ubuntu is that it includes empathy, humbleness, compassion, mutual respect, sharing and caring.
  • Communication that demonstrates empathy for the listener will produce highly favorable reactions.
  • But it became a perfect opportunity to put that empathy into action. Times, Sunday Times
  • Such a metaphor betrays a complete lack of understanding, of empathy with Victorian culture.
  • Shot with great sensitivity and empathy for the confused emotions felt by a nine-year-old, this is a beautiful film that will have everyone but the most stony-hearted viewer reaching for the tissues.
  • Empathy for the criminal's childhood misery does not imply exoneration of the crimes he committed as an adult.
  • Empathy and unapologetic emotion are her trademarks, evoked by a big voice that can rumble with lust or scream with self-hatred.
  • His empathy with the fighter comes from his own experience as a boxer - he was a useful featherweight forced to retire early through injury.
  • The development of empathy in an individual from art mirrors the original derivation of the term; it is art that makes us empathic; art that models others' inner lives for each of us; art that attunes us to experience and suffering beyond ourselves. Brian D. Cohen: Does Art Make You a Better Person?
  • His energy, his empathy, his self-indulgence, his appetites -- for food (unsated as it must be these days), for sex (maybe sated these days, maybe not), for attention, for power, for good deeds -- are all outsized. Michael Takiff: Bill Clinton, Still the Biggest Dog in Town
  • It's not that his surmises are automatically wrong (they're backed up by art-historical knowledge and personal empathy), but that they sound affected and impossibly privileged.
  • Perhaps a bit like Stockholm syndrome, where hostages feel empathy and love towards their captors. The Sun
  • For many, "In Cold Blood" -- in which he sacrificed facts on the altar of art and showed less empathy for the victims than for their murderers -- is his chef-d'oeuvre. Capote's Small, Exquisite Gem
  • He rather belabors the point on those occasions when Tom experiences empathy for others an emotion which he describes as feeling sorry for himself while pretending to be someone else, and really, Portman is being more than a little disingenuous when a kid whose vocabulary includes the word 'callipygian' can't put a name to empathy when he experiences it. King Dork by Frank Portman
  • After a few years embroiled in ambivalence, empathy, concern and more, the changes medication, consoling and more, can have on this person “at times” seemingly leaves them like an empty vessel where life, as we know it, has just been sucked out of them, and yes, they are indeed slower. Page 2
  • That almost supernatural talent for empathy was his greatest political gift.
  • Knowing which kind of support to offer requires the practitioner to use deep empathy based on affirmative assessment.
  • For instance, empathy is a form of EI that gives a supersalesman at Nordstrom his ability to serve customers. The Boss Feels Your Pain
  • Olive Schreiner was not an aristocrat, and her perception of the Africa where she was born is a different perception than, for instance, the perception of someone like Karen Blixen, who, for all her remarkable empathy, brought her aristocratic assumptions to the continent and conceived herself as a benevolent goddess on a farm that existed because of the land-grabbing and punitive tax policies of the colonists. The Story of an African Farm
  • Empathy with the landscape is expressed not only through the extended architectural promenade that traverses the contours of the site, but also through the material character of the Natatorium.
  • Her experiences gave her a sense of empathy and responsibility, she says.
  • And if the Reader objects again that these are all _figures of speech, _ I shall answer that _Empathy_ is what explains why we employ figures of speech at all, and occasionally employ them, as in the case of this rising mountain, when we know perfectly well that the figure we have chosen expresses the exact reverse of the objective truth. The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
  • And basic human empathy for anyone who isn't a strict member of their tribe is in short supply.
  • For many conservatives, empathy is code for caring too much about, and being too soft on, woman and minorities. Barry Schwartz: Partial Justice
  • They had perfectly mastered telepathy, empathy, creative energy work, and healing.
  • T.M. Spooner's novel, Notes from Exile, is a lakeside story, and because it is, I feel a certain nostalgic empathy for the book. Notes from Exile
  • This helps to develop empathy - the ability to see things from the other's point of view in addition to one's own.
  • Highbrow readers supposedly experience 'increased interpersonal empathy and better executive attentional control'. Times, Sunday Times
  • Osorio seems to have empathy for all parties - clients, social workers and judges.
  • The nurse should try to develop empathy between herself and the patient.
  • Empathy for the criminal's childhood misery does not imply exoneration of the crimes he committed as an adult.
  • By switching roles it is also possible to create better empathy and more accurate recognition of danger signs in oneself and in others when the power balance is getting out of hand in real life.
  • And, I feel very sorry for those folks who remain cloaked in bitterness and have absolutely no understanding of compassion and empathy. Kerry's wife battling cancer
  • Yet I am not advocating a crass rationalism in which reverence, empathy and love have no place.
  • If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive. Brene Brown 
  • It subsumes both the movements of empathy and of repulsion toward an object implicit in pity and fear.
  • A lack of empathy with republican ideals leads him to doubt the value of the desire for independence that impels subjugated peoples to seek an escape from empire.
  • The heroine, Catherine Keener's Kate, suffers from a surfeit of empathy, but the movie has suffered only from underexposure. Kings
  • The money will be used to fund an initiative designed to help offenders develop empathy with their victims.
  • I feel a degree of empathy for the man held hostage, and for his family.
  • And a little empathy wouldn't go amiss. Times, Sunday Times
  • If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive. Brene Brown 
  • Right now, I feel this country needs that empathy more than anything else because we have a schismatic president who is portraying the world as a simplistic black-and-white cartoon.
  • His confession reveals that while in the past the Living Constitution's acolytes sought to achieve the amorphous goals of "social justice, brotherhood, and human dignity," a President Obama will feed the beast with what's left of individual rights and limited government, all in the name of "empathy" - a code word for something much darker: sacrifice of true constitutionalism to the needs of society's perceived victims The Two Malcontents
  • For me it was a source of enthralling empathy.
  • Lifton may have coined the term "psychic numbing," but his own sensitivity and capacity for empathy remains undiminished. Greg Mitchell: New Memoir by Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors, Hiroshima -- and Today
  • The hijackers used fanatical certainty, misplaced religious faith, and dehumanising hatred to purge themselves of the human instinct for empathy.
  • What I am seeing, from a variety of different perspectives, is how crucial empathy is in the healthy development of human beings -- and that when we don't experience some healthy form of mirroring or even more importantly, a sense of twinship with another human being as children, we often grow up with a fist-sized hole in our hearts. On Being a Non-Linear Reader
  • For example, different people possess different numbers of mirror neurons, which effectively control their capacity for empathy. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is the nature of empathy, to think oneself into the minds of others.
  • Each pastor must balance structure and flexibility, pragmatism and empathy, cold hard facts and warm soft hugs. Christianity Today
  • But this particular morning, my tears were salted with frustration and exhaustion as my body and soul crumpled, overwhelmed by the weight of empathy. Christianity Today
  • Worldwork develops empathy, and one of its mainstays is what Feagin and Vera call approximating experiences. White Racism and Empathy (or the Lack Thereof)
  • Even gifted with the greatest possible training and empathy, the health professional is still at a distance.
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  • I think it calls for empathy and good interpersonal skills and making a connection with the other person.
  • The stories are, in true Sfar style, truly unusual, though they have more structure and a little more empathy than the unapologetically bad-mannered Sardine books. Little Vampire (and Other Little Folk)
  • I find consolation in the fact that psychological research shows that man is capable of empathy as well as evil.
  • At every sacrifice, this immense wave of emotion overwhelmed his sense of empathy.
  • But the truth can be told with powerful understatement as well, in words and visual images that create empathy without turning the American people into paranoid voyeurs.
  • It is important to develop the empathy between dogs and their handlers.
  • These areas are responsible for our self-identity and for socialisation and empathy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The term empathy first appeared in the work of a German psychologist, Theodore Lipps, toward the end of the nineteenth century. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
  • We're calling on people to send us their old poles, tackle, and other fishing gear so that we can use it in our demonstrations and other Fish Empathy Project endeavors.
  • When he sings Bedsitter, the timeless tale of clubland alienation, generations cheer in empathy.
  • I hope people the country over watch this and feel some empathy. The Sun
  • He contrasts this with "destructively arrogant," which he defines as an attitude that lacks empathy and reeks of insolence and vanity. Richard C. Senelick, M.D.: I Don't Think Physicians Are as Arrogant as You Do
  • What makes this more than a parlor game demonstrating female superiority is the extent to which it reveals the role of empathy in giving. Kelly Kleiman: Whether Women are more Generous than Men, and Whether it Matters
  • If this doesn't disgust the so-called Christian Right, they are inculpable of empathy and are hypocrites in their opposition to abortion, a practice I find just as disgusting, as abortion itself. OpEdNews - Diary: Remember Tom DeLaye and Jack Abramoff? I'll Bet Mr. Schaffer, Hopes Not
  • Later songs like "Innocent" and "Whatever" still have the guitar riffage but experiment more in empathy.
  • Seats carved with verses - many referring to Lady Mary and her empathy with the scenery - have been placed at strategic intervals along the route, to sit and contemplate.
  • The immediate response to such human tragedy must be empathy with the pain of those injured and the grief of those bereaved.
  • The lack of empathy we feel for the rest of the cast is the cost of the uncompromising execution of the idea. Times, Sunday Times
  • They don't develop a knowledge of the victim's experience and therefore they don't develop victim empathy and a sense of remorse and guilt.
  • He has little "empathy"; he makes demands. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
  • He had a great empathy with horses and was a people person as well. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lifton may have coined the term "psychic numbing," but his own sensitivity and capacity for empathy remains undiminished. Greg Mitchell: New Memoir by Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors, Hiroshima -- and Today
  • A bit of buffoonery and tomfoolery are always welcome after a tense high wire act, during which everyone in the audience has been holding their breath, and looking anxiously upwards, in total empathy with the performer.
  • As human beings we are supposed to be caring and to feel empathy for one another. Times, Sunday Times
  • Our eyes met and there was a moment of perfect understanding, an instant of flawless empathy between two Beatle fans.
  • The term narcissism is defined as excessive love or admiration of oneself or a psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem. Darren Littlejohn: The 12 Steps: An Antidote For Celebrities And Other Narcissistic Addicts
  • It is impossible not to feel intense empathy with these athletes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Just remember as you hear the tremulous reporter, voice quaking in empathy, why the farmer is crying.
  • And the ever-present clown, but this clown resembles a Parisian clochard/street person whose attitude does not evoke sympathy or empathy — just a sense of unease; not unlike the unease that is created by four men with two invisible trampolines separated by an enormous wall that they keep landing on top of, only to be airborne again in one direction or the other. Buzzine » Cirque Berzerk!
  • He conveyed to me his love of people, teaching me to see the beauty within, to have empathy for the less fortunate, to make everlasting friendships that endure time and distance.
  • He was booked for showing frustration, which showed a lack of understanding and maybe empathy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some homophobic views were probably softened through empathy, while others hardened amid increasing vitriol directed at the gay community.
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  • But she can also hint at almost infinite grief with a tight one-liner that brings a snort of laughter and a wince of empathy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Exceptional powers of empathy engrossingly populate them. Times, Sunday Times
  • You know she ` s shown that she has a real detachment from her emotions and there ` s no reason to think that, you know, the untimeliness and unfortunate situation where her father would give her anymore empathy or make her care anymore. CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2009
  • I feel a real empathy for people who are sad, and so I relate to characters who are unhappy and dark.
  • The chapter about the cafard and the search for a house with yellow windows is one for which I felt extraordinary empathy; I would love to have written this particularly, but writing such material surely had a certain price attached, and it's known that Cheever went through hell before receiving this vision. My Book Meme
  • Demands for respect while showing contempt for the religions and cultures of others has denied them any empathy for their perceived grievances.
  • Meanwhile the Prime Minister, no orator but a politician with an actor's empathy for public mood, acts on his instincts.
  • What supporters see as empathy, these critics depict as weakness and vacillation.
  • The nurse should try to develop empathy between herself and the patient.
  • They said the stigma of mental illness had declined and that empathy was high.
  • The operator was kind of snippy yes, as if she had never done drugs, hated kids and lacked the emotional distance despite her apparent lack of empathy to think on her feet. Set the record straight (revised)
  • As the science improves, we could see other kinds of cognitive-modification drugs that boost recall, brain plasticity, even empathy and emotional intelligence. Get Smarter
  • You have to show genuine empathy, not phony sympathy.
  • The nurse should try to develop empathy between herself and the patient.
  • The empathy gained by fasting is meant to socialise people into giving alms to the poor which is considered to be the very basis of sociality.
  • Rather than enhancements, these are roadblocks to communication and empathy.
  • Lionized by the president and blackjacked by conservatives, the empathy scrap is furious. Phil Bronstein: I Feel Your Pain, See Your "Empathy," and Raise You a Little EST
  • Adopt an elephant. Factoid: Just like humans, elephants are known to experience feelings of grief and empathy.
  • He also credits television images with increasing the empathy of the young in rich countries for the effects of poverty, famines, and civil wars in poorer areas of the world.
  • All art criticism is necessarily subjective, but such complete empathy with an artist is rare.
  • Just as childhood pets teach us empathy for another's suffering, vicarious experience lets us in on one of the best-kept secrets of human existence: we are all cut from the same cloth.
  • His own experience as a nasho conscript serviceman in Vietnam and the emotional aftermath of his service & return gave weight & empathy to the tale he told. Cheeseburger Gothic » North to adventure.
  • Gentle limits coupled with empathy and flexibility will gradually help your child be less critical of you and himself.
  • But actually, being able to change intonation in speech - as in upspeak - may be a sign of superior empathy? Newswise: Latest News
  • Because we were interested in linking spatial ability with empathy, we also included a very simple task of spatial attention called the line bisection task. Ability To Literally Imagine Oneself In Another's Shoes May Be Tied To Empathy
  • Empathy is another crucial ingredient when establishing rapport.
  • In his short fiction Man-Eating Cats, he describes an adulterous affair not in terms of mere love but as total and complete empathy.
  • We can include in this category empathy or intuition, and also telepathy.
  • The teacher created an ongoing dialogue about universal issues such as friendship, empathy, kindness, and helpfulness.
  • I regret that he showed so little empathy for the trauma experienced by the victims, and also for the pain the Church and society are going through now," said Patrick Hoogmartens, the bishop of Hasselt. Belgium Asks Vatican to Punish Bishop for Abuse
  • Most importantly, there will be an empathy between yourself and your therapist.
  • The little wizard's popularity is also attributed to the empathy that many Japanese children can feel towards his hardships at school and his fascination with the supernatural.
  • She had a deep empathy with animals.
  • As a doctrine of universal acceptance, Hawaiian "aloha" - resonates with Hebraic "rachmones" -- universal empathy, and with the Zulu "ubuntu" -- universal harmony so often cited by Bishop Tutu. Barack Obama and the Summer of Aloha
  • He was a gifted listener; with his chin resting in his hand, he never let his gaze stray from people's faces as they spoke, his expression mirroring empathy and patience, humor and sadness. Nights in Rodanthe
  • His empathy had not informed him of the fact that she was staring at him, though.
  • A potentially helpful mnemonic for giving the diagnosis is ‘THREE’: time, hope, repetition, empathy and education.
  • His empathy for the child's fate is something Godwin displaces onto others, who, significantly, are women and children, the children being William's brother and friends. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  • We see similar behaviour in chimpanzees and elephants Emotional empathy is not exclusive to humans. The Sun
  • As the only species to engage in organized learning such as schools and tutoring, homo sapiens also draw on three uniquely human social skills that are fundamental to how we learn and develop: imitation, which accelerates learning and multiplies learning opportunities; shared attention, which facilitates social learning; and empathy and social emotions, which are critical to understanding human intelligence and appear to be present even in prelinguistic children. Innovations-report
  • It allows the child to grow into an adult who feels valued and competent, who can be emotionally attached to others and has empathy for them.
  • The samples are tested for dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin to assess how they handle risky and emotional situations and deal with empathy. The Sun
  • I felt real empathy for my mother and what she had been through.
  • They are a tiny speck on the economic landscape and one that I have empathy with. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite his empathy, the contrast between young men in earrings to the plain-talking, Midwestern senator was startling.
  • At its strangest – when weird images of molecules were flying over giant ear trumpets, and you felt a weird empathy with Virus – "my sweet adversary" – the show felt like a crystallisation of the bizarre natural world we all inhabit. Bjork – review
  • But she can also hint at almost infinite grief with a tight one-liner that brings a snort of laughter and a wince of empathy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Furthermore, developmental psychologists found evidence that self-recognition correlates with empathy.
  • But one can take empathy too far. Times, Sunday Times
  • No, I didn't soothe him with purring words of empathy.
  • Because she associates monoculture with a masculine wish to dominate -- and sees it as threatening both small farmers and biodiversity in the name of temporarily higher productivity -- Vandana has been called an ecofeminist, a term attributed to the late Francoise d'Eaubonne describing someone resistant to abuse of either women or mother nature, and adds in empathy for the small farmer in developing countries. John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 3: Small Farmers, Ecofeminism, Vandana Shiva
  • Berlin seems to have believed in such a faculty, and identified it with empathy, but did not develop this view in his writings.
  • Dangerous times call for bold acts of empathy, prophetic visions of justice and mercy.
  • “When feds bring in RICO, local guys feel like they got no [power],” Tony-T explained, offering some empathy to local police who get neutered during federal busts. What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
  • He had a lot of empathy with our clients, but day-to-day he wasn't in contact with them.
  • It's that lack of understanding and empathy with each other as big power players that is a risk to us all at the moment. Times, Sunday Times
  • That's the skill, to have the empathy and move on and get to the crux of this story. The Sun
  • I was a few paces on before I even considered my selfishness and lack of empathy.
  • There is a frightening lack of empathy and of understanding of the condition of the elderly.
  • Because we have that empathy, we are good at sympathetically guiding and advising.
  • You have to show genuine empathy, not phony sympathy.
  • Much of the problem is Yasu, goofily portrayed, doesn't have too much characterization supporting him, so there isn't as much empathy for the character when he gets a lapful of earthworms.
  • He had created an empathy with that part of his native county's audience, "one of us" who had given the stuffed shirts and jazz-hatters down south "a bloodied neb", metaphorically at least. Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi
  • True, women were permitted to display compassion (rahamim, in Hebrew, etymologically derives from the word rehem, or womb), and they were even expected to have some empathy with human suffering; but the price they were forced to pay was the struggle to break into the literary canon. Israeli Women's Writing in Hebrew: 1948-2004.
  • But the same ability to inspire and persuade through empathy and trust can be and should be present in all organizations.
  • Having to keep going while containing my own feelings and preserving empathy reminded me of shifts as a houseman.
  • Performing with seemingly telepathic empathy, Watson and Ashley set an enduring standard for vocal and instrumental interplay.
  • A qualified career counselor can extend greater empathy to their clients.
  • Thirdly, the skills required for conducting negotiations-among them intelligence, tact, patience and empathy.
  • Lucy wasn't sure what jarred her most — the rueful note of empathy in his voice or hearing her Christian name caressed by his devilish tongue. Thief Of Hearts
  • Photographs taken in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1993 reflect Lawton's palpable empathy for his shopworn subjects, two years after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
  • The career limned in Four Trials shows a dedication to helping others, a deep reservoir of empathy for the unfortunate, and a passion for justice.
  • Harris married his deceitfulness with a total lack of remorse or empathy—another distinctive quality of the psychopath.
  • Clinton routinely dazzled guests with displays of empathy, of listening, of conveying interest and concern, according to witnesses.
  • Jane felt particular empathy for couples who had problem pregnancies or who lost their baby.

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