They neither sympathise with the feeling that prompts the act, nor hold with the expediency of its commission.
I respect andsympathise with the motive altogether; and I neither respect nor sympathise with the many ferocious pictures of that which is called the wrath of God against sin, which much so-called orthodox teaching has indulged in.
I ask you to come here to sympathise with me, and you’re perfectly brutal to me.
I wanted you to sympathise with me and tell me how ill I looked.
If you will allow me to call on you I can promise to sympathise with you, but I’m afraid I shall never be able to tell you that you look anything but charming.
Do you think, if you can tell it to me, and I understand at once, that it would be more difficult to tell it to your own father, or that he would not be more ready to sympathise with you than I am?
And because I condone it, because I sympathise with what in a man of your age and temperament must amount to an affliction, I hasten to assure you upon my honour that so far as I am concerned there are no grounds for your anxiety.
I can sympathise with the Count's family, but not with the Council.
He was a Hellenistic Jew, and he could sympathise with the wider feelings and ideas of the Hellenists.
With my whole heart I sympathise with you regarding the Jewish question.
You very rightly lay stress upon the fact that such grief causes us more than ever to sympathise with others in their sorrow and to seek their society.
It would have been difficult not to sympathise with them, not to feel like an intruding vulgarian amidst that lonely wildness.
One can see the gleam of each feather, catch their very expressions, and sympathisewith every spring.
You never sympathise with him for one moment, except in a peculiar fashion to be noted presently; but at the same time he neither quite bores you nor quite disgusts you.
I sympathise with Cadoudal most of the three, but I quite recognise that Bonaparte had a kind of right to try, and to execute him.
I can heartily sympathise with you in the pain of giving up one after another the different objects in which you have been interested, and I can feel for you the more as I have been lately passing through the same process.
Well, I can sympathise with him in that," said the large-limbed man, puzzled but smiling.
But, my dear boy, I can't let you go without saying how deeply I sympathise with your position.
Of course I could go to a lawyer--but I mean someone who would sympathisewith me.
He had long thought, also, that none were more calculated to sympathise with Ernest's views, and appreciate his peculiar character, than the gifted and brilliant Florence Lascelles.
Oh, Roma, Roma, my dear Roma, I understand your father now, and cansympathise with him at last.
It is perhaps natural that you should sympathise with the weaker side.
The present generation is not inclined to enforce any very stringent obedience to Paul's teaching, and finds it difficult to sympathise with Abijah's enthusiasm for the symbolism of worship.
It is impossible not to sympathise with the chronicler.
As Protestants we may find it difficult to sympathise with the feelings of a devout Romanist or even with those of a faithful observer of the complicated Mosaic ritual.
People will say that my daughter sets her face against my marriage--my daughter, who ought tosympathise with me, and rejoice that I have found a true friend and protector.
He and the French drew off with the French forces into Galway; and Boisseleau, a Frenchman, who did sympathise with the Irish, and Sarsfield, were left to defend the place.
Holland, being itself a Republic, might have been expected to sympathise and fraternise with the English Commonwealth, but the circumstances of the Court prevented the spread of this feeling.
These, of course, possess various degrees of merit; but much of it must evaporate in translation, or be lost on those who do not sympathise with the feelings of the poet.
If he is a man of sense and virtue, she will sympathisein his sorrows, divert his fatigue, and share his pleasures.
I can only say I sympathise with you profoundly," said young Wentworth, with great seriousness.
He were here, Who was sleeping in the boat that day, and only needed to be roused to sympathise and save!
It is no use saying that we love our fellow men unless we try to help them, and it is no use pretending to sympathise with the heavy burdens which darken their lives unless we try to ease them and to lighten their existence.
I intensely sympathise with the aspirations that lie behind all these Socialist dreams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sympathise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
