Sentence examples for bleeding heart from inspiring English sources

"bleeding heart" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is overly sympathetic or compassionate, often to an excessive or misguided extent. For example: "The professor was a bleeding heart who was always giving second chances to the worst offenders in the class".

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bleeding heart

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Any of various perennial plants, of the family Papaveraceae, subfamily Fumarioideae, often having pink heart-shaped flowers, including:

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He is not a bleeding heart.

The indie rocker has his bleeding heart.

More than one of these criticisms is pre-empted by the story itself, as the narrator tears at his own conscience: "bleeding heart, bleeding heart, bleeding heart".

He was no bleeding heart, no cause-pleader.

Can a bleeding heart benefit one's mental health?

But he doesn't turn into a bleeding heart.

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A LEFTY, bleeding-heart academic Robert Blecker is not.

John V. Lindsay, the bleeding-heart patrician.

This is not a bleeding-heart cause.

This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal.

This is not just a bleeding-heart story.

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