He remembered their reactions to Leah's aneurysm, the damned shrugs and false sympathy.

The false sympathy slid off Faolain's face like water running off a roof.

"Don't tell me the door is locked," Devlin said with false sympathy.

'I imagine so,' the little man nodded, his sympathy transparently false.

He returned my smile with a look of such false sympathy, it almost made me laugh.

Do not let false sympathy betray you, or all the women of Erde will be lost.

"I'm so sorry," he told the man, his voice oozing false sympathy.

Old King Cole gazed down at him with false sympathy.

Hesmucet clasped both hands to his breast in false and exaggerated sympathy.

"You sure are in a fix," said Wilson, with false sympathy.