Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.