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  • In these conversations, Walter showed remarkable empathy.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps it's a matter of empathy.†   (source)
  • Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life.†   (source)
  • I feel overwhelming empathy for that group right now We are one.†   (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)
  • Not empathy or bravery or equality or anything else that a ruler should strive for.†   (source)
  • So I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display empathy I do not feel.†   (source)
  • The purpose of this group is to build empathy, positive leadership, and connection among the students and within the community at large.†   (source)
  • I want to lock myself away from her and not have to feel pity or empathy or compassion or anything.†   (source)
  • What empathy can I afford my enemies?†   (source)
  • As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy.†   (source)
  • The Aluit were empathic and it was our fear and greed which killed them-that and our unbreachable alienness.†   (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)
  • Remote sympathy is fine, but intimate empathy directly conflicts with the Sheridans' manner of living.†   (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)
  • 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 I think you're confusing being empathetic with being a pushover!†   (source)
  • Soon Viviana pushed her arms around mine — probably in empathy with my plight — and I eased.†   (source)
  • I admire how loving and empathetic he is.†   (source)
  • "Her nephew," my mother said, her voice filled with empathy.†   (source)
  • Karr was empathetic, but also disappointed in black jazz musicians who were giving him the cold shoulder after years of friendship.†   (source)
  • And empathy.†   (source)
  • "He was a good man," she said, dullness with an obligatory injection of empathy.†   (source)
  • He looked up at me with those big empathetic eyes that I swore could almost talk.†   (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)
  • Raulito was having one of his crying fits and Jacqueline, who is empathic when it comes to tears, had joined in.†   (source)
  • It was a failure of empathy, the inability to love other children as much as yours.†   (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 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)
  • Maybe empathy, like any unused muscle, simply atrophied.†   (source)
  • "I told her she is not being fair," Moody said to me, his voice now filled with gentleness and empathy.†   (source)
  • He's the guy you never want to mess with, the guy who was born without an empathy chip in his brain.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Help me find compassion without empathy overwhelming me.†   (source)
  • This is what is meant, in the technical sense, by empathy.†   (source)
  • You're what shrinks call 'overly empathetic.'†   (source)
  • Or it may have represented a more general surge in 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)
  • 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)
  • Nine months of patience, encouragement, and empathy had finally left Kelley feeling "crazy angry."†   (source)
  • He looked at me with a barely detectable hint of empathy and led me downstairs to Elizabeth and Charles.†   (source)
  • I don't know how the enhancement opens an empathetic pathway into another human being.†   (source)
  • I'm hoping he'll be empathetic.†   (source)
  • More important, we shared a heartfelt empathy for the victims.†   (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 had never experienced real misery, my life was good, and these two things left me with little 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)
  • Vlad squirmed in his seat, overwhelmed by empathy for whoever the two girls were talking about.†   (source)
  • Tsige's hand was over her mouth, her eyes showing her astonishment and empathy.†   (source)
  • Empathy swelled in her chest.†   (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)
  • So much, Eve thought, for human empathy.†   (source)
  • The empathetic new Medusa had beckoned with generosity, and in his bitterness he had come running.†   (source)
  • I see a cynic who hasn't been able to completely stamp out his own sensitivity, his own empathy.†   (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 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)
  • It's not empathy, exactly.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Most people who are able to handle LLI have high levels of empathy and are often very perceptive of others.†   (source)
  • "Not-stupid" in this case meant empathy….†   (source)
  • Empathy isn't her strong suit."†   (source)
  • He had a moment's empathetic thought for any Horvath who was and quashed it rather automatically.†   (source)
  • …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…†   (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)
  • I didn't need an empathy link with the plants to know how they felt about it.   (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)
  • Whenever I think of the word "empathy," I think of a small boy named Huckleberry Finn contemplating his friend and runaway slave, Jim.   (source)
  • 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)
  • She lacks empathy and is very selfish.
    empathy = the ability to understand others' feelings
  • It was a psychology trick called empathic listening.†   (source)
  • Where is your empathy?" growled Eragon, pointing at the head.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, his Locke followed her moderate, empathic strategies.†   (source)
  • To display an empathy you don't actually feel.†   (source)
  • I tried to use my empathy link with Grover several times, but I couldn't make contact.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Grover's voice was inside my mind—the empathy link.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The woman he was addressing with oh-so-much empathy looked as if she was about to faint.†   (source)
  • Rather, he was indifferent, devoid of even the slightest shred of empathy.†   (source)
  • But what if one's parents are granted the same mercy, the same empathy as other humans?†   (source)
  • Her clinical status also includes periods of manic depression, and she lacks empathy.†   (source)
  • She lacks empathy and in many respects can be described as a sociopath.†   (source)
  • Travis saw empathy and concern etched on their faces.†   (source)
  • Man, you've got an empathy link with a faun!†   (source)
  • "What you're feeling is empathy, certainly not-"†   (source)
  • Feeney winced, as much in empathy as reaction.†   (source)
  • The best tactic, we learned, was empathy.†   (source)
  • A terrible empathy rose through his throat.†   (source)
  • I bore the empathy of motherhood in my heart.†   (source)
  • Nor could he find any empathy within himself for the Urgals.†   (source)
  • Principle 2: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in empathy.†   (source)
  • Grover had told me one time that if he died, the empathy link might kill me too.†   (source)
  • I understand that, even if I don't approve, and understanding-as Oromis said-breeds empathy.†   (source)
  • Surely Elyon can have mercy on even"You call this empathy?"†   (source)
  • "I can feel that much:' "Empathy links," Leneus said disdainfully.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • And best of all, they stopped suffocating us with their exaggerated empathy, their slow head shaking, their tsk-tsks, their "Oh gung bichara."†   (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)
  • By having her write Demosthenes, it meant he also had some empathy, just as Locke also could play on others fears.†   (source)
  • Bailey nodded empathetically.†   (source)
  • We've still got the empathy link.†   (source)
  • I thought about the swallowed objects and purloined paychecks and sweet moments of canine-human empathy.†   (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 cannahis 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Empathy?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • And look, Percy … urn, I'm really sorry about this, but this empathy link … well, I had no choice.†   (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)
  • He felt smothered by empathy.†   (source)
  • He wasn't given to emotion, being the more calculating type, but a strange surge of empathy tugged at him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • And here I was, hoping that you were capable of even the tiniest flicker of empathy or understanding.†   (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)
  • Not even an empathy link.†   (source)
  • Too empathic.†   (source)
  • They have no, uh, empathy.†   (source)
  • And understanding begets empathy and compassion, even for the meanest beggar in the meanest city of Alagaesia.†   (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)
  • We want him to feel some empathy—†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She raged about people of great skill and empathy wasting their time on sideshows, on minor issues, trivial matters.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Too empathic.†   (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)
  • An empathy link!†   (source)
  • While I tend toward stoicism and logic, Jane is outgoing and kind, with a natural empathy that endears her to others.†   (source)
  • 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 ….†   (source)
  • A pained look of helpless empathy had clearly worn through the spokesman's earlier facade of rousing optimism.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • There was genuine empathy in her eyes and in her demeanor, but there was also the cultivated wariness of the Iranian woman.†   (source)
  • —an empathy link.†   (source)
  • Empathy works,' Olivia replied.†   (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)
  • I saw nothing but deep empathy.†   (source)
  • Woolf felt a stab of empathy.†   (source)
  • It's as if there were some primordial expectation of empathy and cooperation that helps the species survive.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.†   (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 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)
  • 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)
  • ...try your best to be authentic, faithful, wise, empathetic, and sincere—†   (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)
  • At my most empathetic, I figured she suffered from some terrible genetic defect, and I hoped I hadn't inherited it.†   (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)
  • She had already developed a top-notch bedside manner, warm and empathetic, but also surprisingly firm with a stubborn patient like myself.†   (source)
  • He's empathetic.†   (source)
  • People had looked at her, some with the empathetic glances of lovers burned, most simply disapproving.†   (source)
  • The Dark Daughters and Sons should swear to be authentic for air, faithful for fire, wise for water, empathetic for earth, and sincere for spirit.†   (source)
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