It was the first time in all the years I've known him that he openly sought sympathy and reassurance.

It is a fine, restrained performance that's never allowed to seek easy sympathy.

"I am not seeking your pity or sympathy," he said at a news conference at the time.

"I never sought sympathy or felt sorry for myself," Doby said.

But the people described did not seek sympathy; they struggled to survive.

The natural result was that the leopards came along to us, not seeking sympathy but a feed.

The patient ground his teeth, and looked around like one seeking sympathy for the heavy burden under which he labors.

But he had not come here seeking sympathy.

In posting information about this event, I am not seeking sympathy.

Finally even fierce Ranee was moved to seek sympathy from a human being.