Empathy

She put on a wrapper, and the gunslinger felt a moment of empathy for a man who must be seeing himself coming out on the far end of what he once had.

Nick knew that one of the reasons he felt a strong sense of empathy for Tom was because he himself had been assumed to be mentally retarded, at first because his handicap had held him back from learning to read and write, later because people just assumed that someone who was both deaf and mute must be mentally retarded.

The screen of the empathy box now showed rushing streams of bright formless color; taking a breath his wife hung on tightly to the two handles.

Last summer, Grover had created an empathy link between us.

Even Tyson…Grover tried to hide it, but Grover and I could sort of read each other’s emotions because of this empathy link between us.

“Man, you’ve got an empathy link with a faun!” Percy leaned away from him.

“But he has this odd empathy for her.

It was impossible to go to a movie with him without getting involved afterwards in a discussion on empathy, Aristotle, universals, messages and the obligations of the cinema as an art form in a materialistic society.