Ruth declares, "I wore her coat like beatitude, and her arms around me were as heartening as mercy".
Peter Greste's brother, Andrew, has welcomed the comments and described them as "heartening".
Melanie Sloan, executive director of Crew, described Rockefeller's comments as "heartening".
Yet they are not nearly as out of step with mainstream Britain as their opponents like to believe.So Mr Robinson's vow to quit the streets is ominous as well as heartening.
The Independent began by seeing it as "heartening … that the message is beginning to sink in that the enemy is not Islam but a crude travesty of the religion in the form of a millenarian death cult".
It has also earned Mr. Sunkara, now a ripe 23, extravagant praise from members of a (slightly) older guard who see his success as heartening sign that the socialist "brand" — to use a word he throws around with un-self-conscious ease — hasn't been totally killed off by Tea Party invective.
The very fact that Mr. Bush did not focus on Israel in his speech could be viewed in Israel as heartening evidence that it was not in this fight, or as worrying evidence that the Americans were forging a coalition in which the Israelis were not welcome.
He described the "respectful hearing" that the group received as "heartening".
Her simple yet detailed style is reminiscent of a visual diary, as hilariously arbitrary as Lincoln's Al Dente Dentist blog, and just as heartening.
