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be tenderhearted
adjective
Compassionate for another's distress
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He could be tenderhearted, as when he learned of his dear Josephine's wayward affections.
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Franklin's brainchild was tenderhearted, henpecked, and witless.
It's a big, tough building, but it's tenderhearted too.
As John Coolidge told Life magazine in 1992: "Though father was tenderhearted, he rarely showed his feelings.
The narrative was tenderhearted but surprisingly staid: it was, as Hollywood executives say, a story of hope.
The last illustration confirms one's first impression that this book would distress or baffle the young and those who are tenderhearted.
Banned and burned in the author's native China, Wei Hui's book tells of Coco's relationships with two men -- Tian Tian, who is tenderhearted, impotent and drug-addicted, and Mark, a married German businessman.
Perhaps because the emergency medicine they practice is so speedy and brutal, the surgeons are tenderhearted and sentimental, as quick to tear up as they are to tear out a kidney.
"He was too tenderhearted to be a rent collector," Smith notes, "and too candid to sell real estate".
But because all these people, no matter how damaged, are essentially tenderhearted, Boswell can write the most refreshingly old-fashioned kind of narrative: one that evokes deep sympathy for all its characters.
Despite all of the darkness she holds, she is still tenderhearted towards her colleagues.
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