I cannot expose my absurd and violent passion to his sympathetic understanding.

To his relief, she just nodded in sympathetic understanding.

She smiled at him with an expression of the most sympathetic understanding.

The judge was a married man himself, and he may have had a sympathetic understanding of Bud's position.

The librarian nodded in sympathetic understanding and cleared the screen.

"A sympathetic understanding," he said, "is a very important part of the process of establishing a foreign policy."

A kind, sympathetic understanding of where people are is the best pastoral attitude we can have.

She was often quoted as saying that juvenile justice should be tempered with a sympathetic understanding of human problems.

Then a measured amount of sympathetic understanding, but not an excess.

A prominent Freemason, he had a "sympathetic understanding of the poor".