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The phrase "a certain compassion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific, yet not precisely defined, level or type of compassion in a context.
Example: "In her speech, she expressed a certain compassion for those affected by the tragedy, highlighting the need for support and understanding."
Alternatives: "a particular empathy" or "a specific kindness."
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Thomas Bjorkman, a plant scientist at Cornell University, examined the store-bought specimen like a diagnostician, unflinchingly but with a certain compassion.
Nathan Stewast-Jarrett as Belize, the one-time drag queen who becomes Cohn's night nurse, touchingly suggests a certain compassion for a man whose politics he loathes.
What we are doing is a drop in the ocean, but we have to behave and act with a certain compassion," said Nassima Kleit, an assistant to the Communist mayor Pascal Beaudet.
In this play one also sees the beginning of a certain compassion for the figures trapped in his cartoons.
Although it is only a head painting, Suleyman is depicted as a strong, dignified man with a certain compassion in the eyes, a hint of a smile on the lips and strength in the chin.
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But such a person also experiences certain emotional states, and understands other people in a certain light; compassion involves non-dispositional states.
You should have developed a certain level of compassion for your patients.
"I think a certain amount of compassion is appropriate for a family that has been through this".
"We need to allow a certain amount of compassion for the humans here," said Bonnie Brady, executive director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association in Montauk.
The hard-eyed superheros and hedonistic Fritzes of previous generations built men and women who lacked a certain amount of compassion.
"Even if you do have to foreclose on someone, you can do it with a certain amount of compassion and humanity," Soboleski said.
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