WordNet
adv. in a sympathetic manner; "she listened to him sympathetically" [syn: sympathetically, empathetically, with empathy] [ant: unsympathetically]
Wikipedia
With Sympathy is the debut album by Ministry. The album was released in 1983 through Arista Records, with Ministry's members at the time being Alain Jourgensen and Stephen George.
Jourgensen has maintained that he was pressured by Arista management into producing the album in the then-popular " synthpop" style, which is in contrast to the harder industrial and heavy metal sounds he developed afterwards. However, there are reports of Jourgensen saying in the 1980s that when he discovered hardcore music, his musical direction changed. Additionally, video of local concerts Ministry performed in Chicago 1–2 years previous to their signing with Arista show the band dressed in "new wave" styles and playing new wave and synthpop music. Jourgensen assumes a false English accent for all of the songs, for which he also later expressed great disliking, though his ex-wife stated in a 2013 interview:
...the English accent thing was more an homage to the bands he loved than anything else. He was not trying to come off as British. The Stones used a southern accent and no one crawled up their ass for it.
With Sympathy was also released as Work for Love under BMG in Europe (with the same cover). There is a video available for "Revenge," which was one of three singles pulled from the album, the others being "Work for Love" and "I Wanted to Tell Her."
The album was long out of print and Jourgensen claimed for years that he had destroyed the master tapes. However, it was reissued in 2012 on Eastworld records with three bonus tracks. In 2014, Jourgensen himself posted a previously unreleased song allegedly recorded during the With Sympathy sessions to his website, allowing it to be downloaded for free.
Usage examples of "with sympathy".
Clodagh unexpectedly touched her shoulder, her eyes gentle with sympathy.
He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy but with visits, phone calls, a sharing of their problems-the way they had always shared their problems, because Morrie had always been a wonderful listener.
Tushin's large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and commiseration on Rostov, who saw that Tushin with his whole heart wished to help him but could not.