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The phrase "a certain kindness and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific quality or characteristic that is gentle or compassionate, often in a context where you are discussing someone's demeanor or behavior.
Example: "She approached the situation with a certain kindness and understanding that made everyone feel at ease."
Alternatives: "a particular warmth and" or "an unmistakable gentleness and".
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Most parents and their children operate with a certain kindness and live-and-let-live atttitude.
She also came to see in him a certain kindness and gentleness, and a sense of humor.
"There was a certain kindness and warmth and curiosity in the kids that I met today which would make teaching in a school like this in the Bronx real easy".
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A leader has got to have a certain kindness but a certain meanness, too.
Not altogether predictably, the show reserves a certain kindness for that forgotten minority: the boyish white man.
But there are other hints, like a certain kindness of tone in whatever ends up on the air or the printed page.
"Regardless of anything else about Gram," she told me, "he was a southern boy: very polite, raised in a kind of genteel society, and there was a certain inherent kindness and humour that was always there, and you could spot it right away.
Georgia was an amazing woman and mother who emanated a certain light and kindness that was missing in my own life.
She was a member of the choir and a regular lector, distinguished by her professional manner of dressing and speaking, and by a certain gentle kindness.
Now I don't know for certain if kindness and greed are completely mutually exclusive, but I would tend to think so.
"You can read Mailer or Hemingway and see — or at least I do — that what separated them from greater writers (like Chekhov, say) was a certain failing of kindness or compassion or gentleness — an interest in the little guy, i.e., the nonglamorous little guy, a willingness and ability to look at all of their characters with love," the writer George Saunders told me via e-mail.
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