In a sympathetic way, she asked, "Oh, dear, are you still fretting about that, too?"

For someone so unemotional, he had a distinctly sympathetic way about him.

He smiled in a sympathetic way, and his gold teeth flashed.

Homosexuality is discussed briefly in a sympathetic way ("They love each other") without going into society's attitudes.

He was a fine public speaker, able to put across spiritual themes in an understandable and sympathetic way.

The doctor's eyes flickered at this but he did nothing, except to watch the patient in an attentive sympathetic way.

Does anyone really think that criminals who are dealt with in a caring and sympathetic way have anything but contempt for the law.

But he did so in a sympathetic way.

"Have a cigar and tell me what happened," Willie said in a sympathetic way.