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kindheartedness
noun
The quality of being kindhearted.
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Gurganus's inclination toward kindheartedness may account for why the first-person teller of "Fear Not," the opening novella of "Local Souls," turns out to be a kind of narrative shell company, a modern-day Marlow who disappears for much of the story but manages to exempt Gurganus from having fully to lose himself inside a heroine more darkly damaged than Jean.
Named Rajo, meaning hope, everyone called her Raasta, because of her dreadlocks, and her kindheartedness was legendary.
In real life he sometimes finds the relationship between animals and human beings cruelly bewildering — not long ago he rescued a mouse that was floundering in his pool, only to see it scamper straight into a mousetrap he had set in his garage — but in his books he manages to reconcile his innate kindheartedness with some of the nasty practices implicit in the survival of the fittest.
For another, Bausch, who is the twin brother of the writer Richard Bausch, displays a rare kindheartedness to his characters -- or, better, let's just say that the tortures he puts them through are not in vain.
We will miss his smile, laugh, generosity, kindheartedness and relaxed manner.
Then the high school held one of those mandatory tolerance assemblies, the sort that, though a standard part of modern education, probably don't indoctrinate all that many evil souls into kindheartedness.
Maimon does seem to have had a genuine appreciation for Mendelssohn, both because of his kindheartedness and because, unlike most others of the circles of the Jewish Enlightenment, Mendelssohn had a reasonable grasp of the Talmud and rabbinic literature.
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