bleeding heart
Example Sentences
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I come into the world with this sort of open, bleeding heart — I expose myself because I’m a romantic.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023
At the start of the new century, Garrison landed the role of a lifetime: Hedwig, the German-born genderqueer rock goddess who is the beating, bleeding heart of the glam-rock musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2022
As “Valentine” so poignantly illustrates, the surest route out of a terrible feeling is straight through its bleeding heart.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021
“She was a symbol. She was mocked. She was looked upon by a lot of people as a prototypical liberal and bleeding heart, and she is that unapologetically.”
From Washington Post • May 11, 2021
The big red splotch on my shirt looked like a real bleeding heart.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
