Mr. Milosevic's sworn enemy, the Bosnian Muslim leader, Aliza Izetbegovic, no doubt the most injured of the Balkan presidents, comes across as a strangely unsympathetic figure.

Hades is an unsympathetic figure, and Persephone's unwillingness is emphasized.

The perception here is that she is such an unsympathetic figure and so unlikable that there would be an unduly small number of people interested in her book.

In Mr. Baker's wired performance, though, Scooper is a shallow, unsympathetic figure.

Parvez's wife remains a remote and unsympathetic figure, a woman whose lack of appreciation fully justifies his drift into the arms of another lover.

Obree is an "opaque and unsympathetic figure" in the film, said reviewer Peter Bradshaw, also calling the record-breaking attempts "weirdly anticlimactic and blank".

This all makes for a seamy, unsympathetic central figure.

Yet he remains rather mysterious and aloof, an unfinished portrait and an unsympathetic figure, not at all sensitive to the plight of the little people, but only to the potential fractures in the system.

In a fascinating subtext, the Communist colonel emerges as a not unsympathetic figure.

The wealth of the family made all four unsympathetic figures to the jury, who, unlike the expensively dressed lawyers, came to court in casual clothes, the men tieless.