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Example sentences for: empathetic
How can you use “empathetic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Then there is the "perplexing chasm [that] separated the two Tupac Shakurs": the gangsta rapper (bad Tupac) and empathetic actor (good Tupac) (Richard Corliss, Time).
It seems that only psychologists know that the word is "empathically," not "empathetically," as used in David Edelstein's review of Unmade Beds . While you will find "empathetic" in some dictionaries, that is only because so many people have (mis)used it, thinking if it is sympathy/sympathetic it must be empathy/empathetic.
I just noticed that you used the word "empathetic."
One virtue of having chosen these particular characters--a gruff, empathetic nurse instead of a polished, pro-choice lobbyist; a thoughtful, vaguely leftish Catholic as opposed to a fire-breathing evangelic--is that we can live with them for 500 pages or so.
Please see the attached letter previously sent to Slate (but not published) as to why "empathetic" should not be used.