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  • At my most empathetic, I figured she suffered from some terrible genetic defect, and I hoped I hadn't inherited it.†   (source)
  • When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.†   (source)
  • In these conversations, Walter showed remarkable empathy.†   (source)
  • For the first time, Thomas felt a little empathy for Gally—he did have a point about how Newt was treating him.†   (source)
  • I feel overwhelming empathy for that group right now We are one.†   (source)
  • He liked to be considered kind, but he made sure everyone knew it, and that drove Mae mad, always having to hear about his kindness, his straight-upness, his reliability, his boundless empathy.†   (source)
  • Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life.†   (source)
  • Maybe empathy, like any unused muscle, simply atrophied.†   (source)
  • Not empathy or bravery or equality or anything else that a ruler should strive for.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it's a matter of empathy.†   (source)
  • They wouldn't have the empathy to deal with the Paradice models, they wouldn't be any good at it, they'd get impatient.†   (source)
  • And I think you're confusing being empathetic with being a pushover!†   (source)
  • "He was a good man," she said, dullness with an obligatory injection of empathy.†   (source)
  • What empathy can I afford my enemies?†   (source)
  • Soon Viviana pushed her arms around mine — probably in empathy with my plight — and I eased.†   (source)
  • The Aluit were empathic and it was our fear and greed which killed them-that and our unbreachable alienness.†   (source)
  • And empathy.†   (source)
  • He looked up at me with those big empathetic eyes that I swore could almost talk.†   (source)
  • I'm hoping he'll be empathetic.†   (source)
  • Raulito was having one of his crying fits and Jacqueline, who is empathic when it comes to tears, had joined in.†   (source)
  • I admire how loving and empathetic he is.†   (source)
  • Remote sympathy is fine, but intimate empathy directly conflicts with the Sheridans' manner of living.†   (source)
  • Karr was empathetic, but also disappointed in black jazz musicians who were giving him the cold shoulder after years of friendship.†   (source)
  • Clarence Darrow regularly walked the short distance from his office in the Rookery to Hull House, where he was admired for his intellect and social empathy but disparaged, privately, for his slovenly dress and less-than-exemplary hygiene.†   (source)
  • Saeed in particular was touched by a native boy, just out of school, or perhaps in his final year, who came to their house and administered polio drops, to the children but also to the adults, and while many were suspicious of vaccinations, and many more, including Saeed and Nadia, had already been vaccinated, there was such earnestness in the boy, such empathy and good intent, that though some argued, none had the heart to refuse him.†   (source)
  • As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy.†   (source)
  • They have no, uh, empathy.†   (source)
  • He looked at me with a barely detectable hint of empathy and led me downstairs to Elizabeth and Charles.†   (source)
  • Deprived of sleep and surrounded by the gravely ill and the dying, Tracy began to fear that she was losing her capacity for empathy.†   (source)
  • The purpose of this group is to build empathy, positive leadership, and connection among the students and within the community at large.†   (source)
  • This is what is meant, in the technical sense, by empathy.†   (source)
  • The only brother worthy of a measure of empathy in Vanger's eyes was the sickly Gustav, who died of lung disease in 1955.†   (source)
  • I want to lock myself away from her and not have to feel pity or empathy or compassion or anything.†   (source)
  • "Her nephew," my mother said, her voice filled with empathy.†   (source)
  • So I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display empathy I do not feel.†   (source)
  • You're what shrinks call 'overly empathetic.'†   (source)
  • The woman he was addressing with oh-so-much empathy looked as if she was about to faint.†   (source)
  • Adam began to earn a reputation among the staff and his peers for his enthusiasm, empathy, and—while he could be lighthearted and goofy—competitive nature and drive, which really shone on the basketball court.†   (source)
  • A moment later, Edna is all empathy as she talks to a fistula patient who sobs as she describes how her husband forced her to leave their home.†   (source)
  • Each of you who believes you can uphold the ideals of the Dark Daughters and Sons, and will try your best to be authentic, faithful, wise, empathetic, and sincere—you may continue your membership in this group.†   (source)
  • He's the guy you never want to mess with, the guy who was born without an empathy chip in his brain.†   (source)
  • Tsige's hand was over her mouth, her eyes showing her astonishment and empathy.†   (source)
  • "I suppose I have empathy enough to listen," he says, "because I feel like I know these women, so many women, who come here looking for some justice in their lives.†   (source)
  • I don't know how the enhancement opens an empathetic pathway into another human being.†   (source)
  • He hasn't looked at me since yesterday's incident, and to be frank, I find it difficult to look at him, vacillating as I do from feeling the deepest empathy for his mortification to being barely able not to laugh.†   (source)
  • It was a failure of empathy, the inability to love other children as much as yours.†   (source)
  • Or it may have represented a more general surge in empathy.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to go to a movie with him without getting involved afterwards in a discussion on empathy, Aristotle, universals, messages and the obligations of the cinema as an art form in a materialistic society.†   (source)
  • "I told her she is not being fair," Moody said to me, his voice now filled with gentleness and empathy.†   (source)
  • There was less bulimia and more fights than I had known as an undergrad, but the same feminine ethos was present—empathetic camaraderie and bawdy humor on good days, and histrionic dramas coupled with meddling, malicious gossip on bad days.†   (source)
  • More important, we shared a heartfelt empathy for the victims.†   (source)
  • So much, Eve thought, for human empathy.†   (source)
  • Empathy swelled in her chest.†   (source)
  • Vlad squirmed in his seat, overwhelmed by empathy for whoever the two girls were talking about.†   (source)
  • Winnie Holzman is a writer and director acclaimed for her empathy with teenagers in her cult TV series, My So-Called Life.†   (source)
  • I see a cynic who hasn't been able to completely stamp out his own sensitivity, his own empathy.†   (source)
  • The empathetic new Medusa had beckoned with generosity, and in his bitterness he had come running.†   (source)
  • "Not-stupid" in this case meant empathy....Wyoh had plenty.†   (source)
  • Even though they had beheld one another merely once or twice, two prisoners tortured on the same rack could not have had more mutual empathy or trust.†   (source)
  • I had never experienced real misery, my life was good, and these two things left me with little empathy.†   (source)
  • They shared an empathy with each other that transcended the relationship that the cat felt with its then master.†   (source)
  • "The only way to find out is to do the science," Gottschall says, reasonably enough, and then announces that "the constant firing of our neurons in response to fictional stimuli strengthens and refines the neural pathways that lead to skillful navigation of life's problems" and that the studies show that therefore people who read a lot of novels have better social and empathetic abilities, are more skillful navigators, than those who don't.†   (source)
  • He had a moment's empathetic thought for any Horvath who was and quashed it rather automatically.†   (source)
  • It's not empathy, exactly.†   (source)
  • Most people who are able to handle LLI have high levels of empathy and are often very perceptive of others.†   (source)
  • Empathy isn't her strong suit.†   (source)
  • I have always been for the underdog and I've pretended it was because I was sensitive and empathetic, but that's not it at all.†   (source)
  • If by force you make a creature live and work like a beast, you must think of him as a beast, else empathy would drive you mad.†   (source)
  • learning and sensibility, I have from the very beginning responded warmly to Jews, my first love having been Miriam Bookbinder, the daughter of a local ship chandler, who even at the age of six wore in her lovely hooded eyes the vaguely disconsolate, largely inscrutable mystery of her race; and then later I experienced a grander empathy with Jewish folk which, I am persuaded, is chiefly available to those Southerners shattered for years and years by rock-hard encounter with the anguish of Abraham and Moses' stupendous quest and the Psalmist's troubled hosannas and the abyssal vision of Daniel and all the other revelations, bittersweet confections, tall tales and beguiling horror†   (source)
  • Last summer, Grover had created an empathy link between us.   (source)
  • I had an empathy link with Grover, so I hoped I would know if anything bad happened to him.   (source)
  • Meanwhile, his Locke followed her moderate, empathic strategies.   (source)
    empathic = with understanding and sharing of others' feelings
  • Grover and I could sort of read each other's emotions because of this empathy link Grover had made between us.   (source)
    empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
  • By having her write Demosthenes, it meant he also had some empathy, just as Locke also could play on others fears.   (source)
    empathy = understanding and sharing of others' feelings
  • Demosthenes is definitely the girl, but Graff says the girl was rejected for Battle School because she was too pacific, too conciliatory, and above all, too empathic.   (source)
    empathic = with a tendency to share others' feelings
  • Anyone who could move from anger to empathy as effortlessly as she had was a treasure, and he was lucky to have found her.   (source)
    empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
  • It was a psychology trick called empathic listening.†   (source)
  • Where is your empathy?" growled Eragon, pointing at the head.†   (source)
  • Already the anger is giving way—almost against my will—to more understanding, more empathy.†   (source)
  • Percy, an empathy link is so hard to do.†   (source)
  • Grover had told me one time that if he died, the empathy link might kill me too.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Grover's voice was inside my mind—the empathy link.†   (source)
  • Nor could he find any empathy within himself for the Urgals.†   (source)
  • I tried to use my empathy link with Grover several times, but I couldn't make contact.†   (source)
  • I understand that, even if I don't approve, and understanding-as Oromis said-breeds empathy.†   (source)
  • "I can feel that much:' "Empathy links," Leneus said disdainfully.†   (source)
  • And look, Percy ...urn, I'm really sorry about this, but this empathy link ...well, I had no choice.†   (source)
  • My first empathy link must've worked then.†   (source)
  • If the empathy link was real ...if something happened to Grover ...would I ever wake up?†   (source)
  • She lacks empathy and in many respects can be described as a sociopath.†   (source)
  • Man, you've got an empathy link with a faun!†   (source)
  • Her clinical status also includes periods of manic depression, and she lacks empathy.†   (source)
  • But what if one's parents are granted the same mercy, the same empathy as other humans?†   (source)
  • Help me find compassion without empathy overwhelming me.†   (source)
  • Travis saw empathy and concern etched on their faces.†   (source)
  • Rather, he was indifferent, devoid of even the slightest shred of empathy.†   (source)
  • A terrible empathy rose through his throat.†   (source)
  • Feeney winced, as much in empathy as reaction.†   (source)
  • Nine months of patience, encouragement, and empathy had finally left Kelley feeling "crazy angry."†   (source)
  • Principle 2: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in empathy.†   (source)
  • The best tactic, we learned, was empathy.†   (source)
  • I bore the empathy of motherhood in my heart.†   (source)
  • To display an empathy you don't actually feel.†   (source)
  • What you're feeling is empathy, certainly not—†   (source)
  • Surely Elyon can have mercy on even"You call this empathy?"†   (source)
  • It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy.†   (source)
  • Then call it empathy, Thomas snapped back.†   (source)
  • Even this one easily executed task, retrieving the wallet of a man they'd held in a cage a few yards away, seemed, in the context, an act of great courage and empathy.†   (source)
  • Annie darkened a little, but he saw at once that she was not darkening at him , the survival instinct, he was discovering, might be only instinct in itself, but it created some really amazing shortcuts to empathy.†   (source)
  • And understanding begets empathy and compassion, even for the meanest beggar in the meanest city of Alagaesia.†   (source)
  • It wasn't so much what he said, the blatant lies, the contrived empathy, or even the fact that he had not raised a hand to her, Mariam, since he had dug the girl out from under those bricks.†   (source)
  • Reilly believes that a doctor has to understand the patient as a person, and if you believe in the importance of empathy and respect in the doctor-patient relationship, you have to create a place for that.†   (source)
  • About how the Flare destroyed your brain, slowly driving you insane and stripping you of the capacity to feel basic human emotions like compassion or empathy.†   (source)
  • "That's so good, Francis," Mae said, her body overtaken by a surge of feeling for him, some mix of empathy and pity and even admiration.†   (source)
  • Another friend, a child psychologist from the college, once commented that Rachel at age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.†   (source)
  • There was more to him than that, however, and I described his intuition and empathy, his gentleness with children, his pure heart.†   (source)
  • By then her casebook was filled with terms such as introverted, socially inhibited, lacking in empathy, ego-fixated, psychopathic and asocial behaviour, difficulty in cooperating, and incapable of assimilating learning.†   (source)
  • And best of all, they stopped suffocating us with their exaggerated empathy, their slow head shaking, their tsk-tsks, their "Oh gung bichara."†   (source)
  • It was a rare moment of empathy.†   (source)
  • He had taken a political hit from Chief Nelson's sometimes ham-fisted methods, and Nelson's apparent lack of empathy for refugees had come to weigh on Swaney himself.†   (source)
  • Being empathic and all, he could usually read my emotions, and I got the feeling he knew exactly what Aphrodite had talked to me about.†   (source)
  • Bailey nodded empathetically.†   (source)
  • She was seventy years old and still she had never traveled offworld, used a fatline, tasted any alcoholic drink except wine, interfaced with an empathy surgeon, stepped through a farcaster door, smoked a cannabis stick, received gene tailoring, plugged into a stimsim, received any formal schooling, taken any RNA medication, heard of Zen Gnostics or the Shrike Church, or flown any vehicle except an ancient Vikken skimmer belonging to her family.†   (source)
  • I thought about the swallowed objects and purloined paychecks and sweet moments of canine-human empathy.†   (source)
  • We've still got the empathy link.†   (source)
  • Empathy?†   (source)
  • Why did Ky tell me about this person and make me feel empathy for him when there's no proof that he ever lived at all?†   (source)
  • Empathy?†   (source)
  • The empathy link.†   (source)
  • Animal lovers are a special breed of human, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky.†   (source)
  • My empathy link was really tingling for the first time in months, which either meant a whole lot of people had suddenly switched on the Nature Channel, or Grover was close.†   (source)
  • Even with your empathy link?†   (source)
  • Grover told me he could dissolve the empathy link between us, now that we were face to face, but I told him I'd just as soon keep it if that was okay with him.†   (source)
  • It might have been the setting or the fact that she was alone; either way, the surge of empathy was a foreign sensation, one that caught him completely off guard.†   (source)
  • He felt smothered by empathy.†   (source)
  • Not even an empathy link.†   (source)
  • And here I was, hoping that you were capable of even the tiniest flicker of empathy or understanding.†   (source)
  • Too empathic.†   (source)
  • She wasn't sure if he could feel the discord through the parabatai bond or if it was just ordinary empathy, or a little of both.†   (source)
  • I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism.†   (source)
  • Well, maybe not technically— he was intelligent, cunning, and, as far as she could tell, completely without empathy, the kind of person who thought only about himself and what he wanted.†   (source)
  • We want him to feel some empathy—" "You know, I've heard just about enough!" said Mom, holding her palm in front of Mr. Tushman's face.†   (source)
  • He wasn't given to emotion, being the more calculating type, but a strange surge of empathy tugged at him.†   (source)
  • I believe pain tells us something critical about ourselves and life: that developing strength and empathy and bravery is more essential than our personal comfort.†   (source)
  • She put on a wrapper, and the gunslinger felt a moment of empathy for a man who must be seeing himself coming out on the far end of what he once had.†   (source)
  • More than empathy, he felt he understood Sloan, that he had isolated the core elements of Sloan's personality, those things one could not remove without irrevocably changing the man.†   (source)
  • But I found myself instead struggling for breath, the simple draw of it, my still weakened lungs smarting with each gasp, and whatever life-spirit I possessed at that moment I felt desperate to abdicate, if but for empathy and the wish for a penance that would likely never come.†   (source)
  • they had strolled on the beach and had a picnic in the sand ....or a picnic and a hot-air balloon ride ....Jessica and Julie ....so much alike ....his thoughts of them combining into one ....images joining together ....Julie ....her tears as she watched Phantom of the Opera ....the sensual touch of her fingers as she cut his hair ....her empathy when he lied about his mother dying unexpectedly ....how proud she seemed when she introduced him to her friends at the bar ....God, he loved her.†   (source)
  • She raged about people of great skill and empathy wasting their time on sideshows, on minor issues, trivial matters.†   (source)
  • He went on: "I thought I was the king of empathy for these poor kids, but if I was the king of empathy, why this big shift because of my daughter?†   (source)
  • A pained look of helpless empathy had clearly worn through the spokesman's earlier facade of rousing optimism.†   (source)
  • His emotions were liquid; his anger was a wild rage, his pleasure jubilation, his humor biting, his sorrow and empathy a bottomless abyss.†   (source)
  • Too empathic.†   (source)
  • While I tend toward stoicism and logic, Jane is outgoing and kind, with a natural empathy that endears her to others.†   (source)
  • He would have made a good priest or minister, she'd often thought, and people who met him for the first time usually walked away with the impression that he was at peace with himself and the world, 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.†   (source)
  • One rationale for seeking more female politicians is that women supposedly excel in empathy and forging consensus and thus may make, on average, more peaceful and conciliatory leaders than men.†   (source)
  • ") And if these claims seem almost too large to argue, the more central claim—that stories increase our empathy, and "make societies work better by encouraging us to behave ethically"—seems too absurd even to argue with.†   (source)
  • An empathy link!†   (source)
  • One wrong word, one poorly constructed phrase, and he might destroy her sense of empathy, or preclude her from ever learning how to communicate with her mind, or inhibit her own sense of pain, so she would not immediately notice when she was injured.†   (source)
  • There was genuine empathy in her eyes and in her demeanor, but there was also the cultivated wariness of the Iranian woman.†   (source)
  • The Athenians were brilliant philosophers and abounded in empathy that made them wonderful writers and philosophers, yet they did not even debate their reliance on slavery.†   (source)
  • His natural empathy and experience with the horses of the bullring circuit had given him insight into the minds of ailing, nervous horses.†   (source)
  • Empathy works,' Olivia replied.†   (source)
  • —an empathy link.†   (source)
  • We light candles on the twenty-foot tree to the right of the altar, all the fair-haired Lutheran children and parents and grandparents singing with songbooks open, the reverend preaching a sermon as elemental as a story in a child's picture book, a lesson about charity and empathy.†   (source)
  • Surely if there were any truth in the notion that reading fiction greatly increased our capacity for empathy then college English departments, which have by far the densest concentration of fiction readers in human history, would be legendary for their absence of back-stabbing, competitive ill-will, factional rage, and egocentric self-promoters; they'd be the one place where disputes are most often quickly and amiably resolved by mutual empathetic engagement.†   (source)
  • Woolf felt a stab of empathy.†   (source)
  • I saw nothing but deep empathy.†   (source)
  • In her speech in the Bronx, Jordana exuded maturity and empathy as she exhorted the students to support the Girls Learn chapter, noting that girls the same age as those in the audience are being trafficked or killed for "honor," and she ended with a ringing crescendo: "Girls' rights are human rights!"†   (source)
  • Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.†   (source)
  • Like him, she was deeply empathic.†   (source)
  • I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships.†   (source)
  • It's as if there were some primordial expectation of empathy and cooperation that helps the species survive.†   (source)
  • I believe that it is only through empathy that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child, or an Iraqi prisoner becomes real to me and not just passing news.†   (source)
  • These ideals and convictions—results of historical experience, empathy, and the need for beauty and harmony—have usually been willingly recognized by human beings, at least in theory.†   (source)
  • I BELIEVE IN EMPATHY.†   (source)
  • Adam was glad of Charles the way a woman is glad of a fat diamond, and he depended on his brother in the way that same woman depends on the diamond's glitter and the self security tied up in its worth; but love, affection, empathy, were beyond conception.†   (source)
  • His voice was empathetic and fatherly, and Mae knew she would abide by whatever he said.†   (source)
  • Like Jane, he was empathetic even as a child.†   (source)
  • But in the years that followed I drew even closer to my family and became a more empathetic friend.†   (source)
  • Then I relented, nice, empathetic person that I am ...ummm.†   (source)
  • They would use empathetic pain to break him.†   (source)
  • The lady pasdar grew pensive and empathetic.†   (source)
  • I should have been more empathetic.†   (source)
  • Each of these events fed the perception that the refugees were bringing violent pasts with them to Clarkston, and caused even empathetic locals to worry for their own safety.†   (source)
  • She had already developed a top-notch bedside manner, warm and empathetic, but also surprisingly firm with a stubborn patient like myself.†   (source)
  • Like most adolescents, he was sometimes distant and withdrawn, but he was a truly empathetic listener.†   (source)
  • Habitually putting himself in other people's shoes, he was in his private life charming and engaging, generous and genuinely empathetic.†   (source)
  • He's empathetic.†   (source)
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