The family, in which Mr. Levin portrays one of four children, is depicted sympathetically, and the film implies that Russia shares universal guilt for the Holocaust, a point of view that did not sit well with Soviet authorities.

It was in New Jersey that "Happiness" (1998), perhaps Mr. Solondz's most reviled work, somewhat sympathetically depicted a man who loved his own children, but who was also capable of sexually abusing others.

Dee is an antagonist, though depicted somewhat sympathetically, in Patricia Wrede's novel-length retelling of a traditional fairy tale, Snow White and Rose Red (1989).

It is at this point that the audience realises that Alcina genuinely loves Ruggiero; from now until the end of the opera, she is depicted sympathetically.

For example, he said, the handful of blacks and Jews in his books are depicted sympathetically.

The enemy, led by "Muly Mahamet" (Abd al-Malik), are depicted sympathetically.

Neanderthals are sympathetically depicted as having an articulate and sophisticated society and language, in conscious rebuttal of the above stereotype.

His brother Thomas Richmond Webb was an ancestor of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, and Webb is sympathetically depicted in Thackeray's historical novel The History of Henry Esmond.

As such, he is a pivotal character in Alexandre Dumas' novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne, where he is depicted sympathetically.

He is depicted far more sympathetically, as he adopts Spider-Boy and gives him the name Pete Ross after feeling sorry for the clone.