compassionate

Example Sentences

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Also among Mr. Stoppard’s most indelible achievements was “The Invention of Love,” his elegiac and beautifully compassionate play about the poet A.E.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dr Aventin gave an example of the compassionate care she received after she had a stillbirth when a nurse saved the petals from the roses a friend had sent her.

From BBC

After six years, Andre-Bruno was released from prison in 1973 on compassionate grounds when one of his wives died, but the damage was irreversible.

From BBC

Breast cancer patients suffered unnecessary mastectomies, delayed diagnoses and a lack of compassionate care at an NHS Trust in north-east England, the BBC has learned.

From BBC

It doesn’t take much to transform a room of jaded strangers into a representative slice of compassionate humanity.

From Los Angeles Times