We believe that we need a compassionate understanding of both Israeli and Palestinian experiences.

I am searching for a better way to move beyond the profound regret I have when I read an essay whose motives seem to lack compassionate understanding.

But until the too-busy plot loses touch with Shane, the compassionate understanding that Harvey brings to this killer is an astonishment.

The author's compassionate understanding of these characters and his sense of hurt (the story is at least partly autobiographical) are sometimes lost.

"Here is a young man of 21 who sees people with compassionate understanding," Strand wrote.

This stage Peck believes can only be described as "glory" and reflects a deep yearning in every human soul for compassionate understanding from one's fellows.

The archbishop gazed at him benevolently; his features, warmed by the wine to a fine mellow glow, arranged themselves in an expression of compassionate understanding.

"There was no need to separate that Hand," she said, a compassionate understanding in her at how I would take the news.

The novel was remarkable not only for its nimble, quicksilver-fast plot but also for its compassionate understanding of the lonely, the inarticulate and the dispossessed.

It was the first time she had ever said she hated the Presences, and his sudden burst of compassionate understanding amazed him.