That's a sympathetic reading.

Thanks to Pam Dorman for her sympathetic and perceptive reading of the first draft.

But since devoting herself full-time to playwriting in 1955, she had accomplished little - drafts of three plays had gone nowhere beyond sympathetic readings by her husband and friends.

Neeme Jarvi's sympathetic reading also points up Kalinnikov's contrapuntal skills, and the Scottish National Orchestra delivers it all with aplomb.

But there is a strong sense that such a sympathetic reading of Jewish and Christian Scriptures would not be permitted in most public schools.

Given the difficulties he faced, it's hard to begrudge him such emotions; it's just that this sour tone of complaint does not make for particularly engaging or sympathetic reading.

Romeo and Juliet is not considered to be exceedingly psychologically complex, and sympathetic psychoanalytic readings of the play make the tragic male experience equivalent with sicknesses.

Mr. Lane, a lawyer with more than a touch of the moralist, will get a sympathetic reading from most casual Web surfers.

Spiritual neighbors, as well as contemplative wayfarers, they would probably be the first to admit that every sympathetic reading of another writer is an act of reunion.

Barbara Schnell, for German translations, error-checking, and sympathetic reading.