“Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.”
“There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.”
“She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.”
“As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and trying to make everyone in the English-speaking world look like an idiot - it's the Bill Maher of punctuation.”
“How sympathetic you look, Anne…as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.”
“Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheekThy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek With sympathetic care their arms around the creep, For oh they can not bear to see their father weep”