softhearted

Example Sentences

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Rather, as with her other novels, there’s a softhearted universalism to Lalami’s treatment of surveillance capitalism.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

Rina Sawayama launched into the country ballad portion of her show accompanied by a softhearted acoustic guitar.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022

This musical, a production of Page 73, Playwrights Horizons and Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, forgoes the commercial niceties and digestible narratives of many Broadway shows, delivering a story that’s searing and softhearted, uproarious and disquieting.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2022

I'm not being softhearted or I'm not trying to be anything.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2020

I could not believe how gentle and softhearted he could be.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd