"compassion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Instead of feeling pity for Oedipus and Jocasta, who both commit suicide in the end, it is the fate of Adrastus and Eurydice that arouses compassion and sympathy.
- Such information can be used for odious or immoral purposes, but it can also be used to arouse the concern and compassion needed to cure misery.
- James Vernon, in his Hunger: A Modern History, wrote that in Britain before the 20th century, it was generally only women and children suffering from hunger who could arouse compassion.
- But even granting the obvious, a Paulist priest and film maker who has used celebrities in his own work to arouse compassion for victims of starvation defends the technique.
- You're asking help for an unsavory clientele, and one that does not arouse compassion like assisting the blind or disabled or children.
- A simple confession - a heartbroken "I pushed her, God help me" - a change of plea to guilty might have aroused compassion in you - and indeed in me.
- And this ability to arouse compassion is the very secret of humor.
- While many of the portraits ring true, arousing our interest and compassion, there are some glaring stereotypes that will make readers groan in disbelief.
- The situation at Fukushima arouses dread and compassion in all of us, and asks questions of our own system for producing nuclear energy.
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