Sentence examples for compassionate that from inspiring English sources

Speaking from the Oval Office -- the same site he had used previously to announce military strikes and plug major legislative initiatives -- Mr. Clinton once borrowed the word "compassionate" that has become a mantra of the incoming Bush administration.

This is personally devastating, as it is caring for women, giving safe and high-quality care and being compassionate that first inspired me to be a midwife.

It is naive to assume that she or we must be compassionate, that the character must move us, that she is just too distancing.

He was also selling himself, portraying himself as so upbeat and so compassionate that people would feel they had no choice but to bow to his desires.

"I tend to be guarded, but Anita Perry was so warm and compassionate that I found myself opening up and sharing my story of my rape in London during my sophomore and junior year at U.T., a secret I had kept for 30-plus years," Ms. Mosbacher said.

I hope if that does happen that I will have the capacity to live in accordance with the values I profess – that I will advocate and be compassionate; that I will live in the love that my special child brings to this world.

"It is the time for compassionate leadership that recognizes that the voiceless are often those who suffer most.

She enfolds the vulgar, overbearing Nat in a compassionate embrace that avoids condescension and exaggeration.

Distinctively, though, he anneals his cutting-edge irony into a compassionate anger that goes beyond the literary times.

Although she marries and has many children, she remains naïve and compassionate, traits that draw Emmett's spirit to her in death as in life.

Worse still, the bill is disingenuously cast as a compassionate measure that would help the very poor and "unbanked" citizens who would be most hurt by it.