The phrase "honest heart" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used in situations when someone is describing a sincere person or situation. For example, "She spoke with an honest heart, and everyone could feel her sincerity."
They survive as testimony to a vigorous director with a moral and honest heart.
But I don't see how anybody could say that with an honest heart.
"Let all the people watching with an honest heart and with honesty say what they want to say".
And I'm still enjoying Shlomo, whose waitress-bothering, soup-slurping persona hides a keen mind and, I'm still convinced, an ultimately honest heart.
The morality lies in the effort to have an honest heart, genuinely to feel the emotion: and the film shares this moral code.
"Please put your hand over your heart and repeat after me: 'I swear that I am here today to find my other half with a true and honest heart,' " he said, and paused for emphasis.
Although I have never written to any author or journalist, I feel compelled to respond to Autumn Stephens's honest, heart-tugging piece.
This ranges from the cerebral to the fantastic, but sometimes the need to read an honest, heart-rending story of love (and, usually, death) needs to be filled.
The same can't be said for the honest, heart-clutching kid-genius drama X+Y (Koch Media, 12), though that's not the film's fault.
Together, with old beat-up or hand-made instruments, the group played what could only be described as folk music: honest, heart-felt songs about life's beauty and pain.
Honest, heart-breaking and often hilarious, what I find most comforting about Fun Home is that in Bechdel I have found someone else who defines their life through literature.
