1. We're simpatico about most things.

2. Not all couples are simpatico during long car trips.

3. Guitar legend Ry Cooder adds his simpatico guitar weaves.

4. He and I are simpatico about a lot of things.

5. The importance of a simpatico relationship between the cultures of the consultancy and the client is potentially overlooked.

6. There was a lot of simpatico nodding; then the four of us fell silent.

7. The human affairs of the company and downstage, simpatico to the person.

8. Thus Alastair Campbell, a key press aide, had "clanking great balls", George Bush is a "normal guy" and Alan Milburn, a favourite minister, was "fully simpatico with the direction of change".

9. Of course the mystique remains, and of course new teen-agers discern something ineffably simpatico in Cobain's voice.