| These letters have triggered a deluge of complaints to the watchdog, who seems to be treating them sympathetically, although he's no soft touch. |
| His report, while received sympathetically by the administration, is resisted by the overwhelming isolationist sentiment. |
| But the Supreme Court sympathetically commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. |
| Geoffrey nodded sympathetically as the water bubbled towards the top of the drum. |
| The result, McGinn sympathetically explains, is the cooling of an overheated imagination. |
| He wrote sympathetically about highlanders under the cosh from rapacious landlords. |
