She had wanted to stop that unknown fugitive, but she couldn't suppress an instinctive sympathy toward the hunted.

One comes to a case like this one-pitting a powerful defendant against a vulnerable putative victim-with an instinctive sympathy for the underdog.

The Muslims, however, felt an instinctive sympathy for the Palestinians.

It was an instinctive sympathy for that part of her misery which Marfa did not show which first drew Nadia towards her.

But he agrees that most Jewish judges are different, that they have an instinctive sympathy for the underdog.

Dexter detected a glimmer of pleasure, as if the man felt instinctive sympathy for Lancaster and took personal satisfaction in thwarting the police.

I pushed back my instinctive sympathy, however.

Looking back toward the green, Donna felt an instinctive sympathy for Chelsea Kane.

Those who speak up for day laborers often fall back on general appeals to compassion and an instinctive sympathy for the hard-working little guy.

It's an instinctive sympathy for an underdog who has been harassed for six years, beyond any limit of reasonableness, by vicious and unprincipled opponents.