soft-heartedness

Example Sentences

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More crucially, despite Zoe’s competence and stamina as a crew member, her fate is the result of her soft-heartedness.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2021

Both of Bergdahl’s parents praised what they described as their son’s toughness and his soft-heartedness.

From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2014

She also betrays a trace of her dad's soft-heartedness; recently, she left one of the freezers open, which happened to contain her beloved pet canary, Missy.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2010

This element of mercy, soft-heartedness, and readiness to pity must specially be remembered in considering the relation of the trained nurse to the patient.

From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Towns, Charles B.

But with all his soft-heartedness and sensitive and retiring temperament, none who knew him have ever for a moment mistaken Renshaw Fanning for a muff.

From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Mitford, Bertram