Thus framed, these lives have the loneliness of figures in Edward Hopper paintings, whose cool, compassionate bleakness is deliberately evoked here.
But he is kinder than the former, and less neurotic than the latter (whose own compassionate sensitivity got blocked by obsessive self-consciousness, or, when unblocked, sometimes emerged as outright sentimentality).
How invigorating to meet a humble brainiac, whose kind, compassionate, a feminist, in 2016 who's has pulled tote for almost two decades!
How invigorating to meet a humble brainiac, whose kind, compassionate, a feminist, in 2016 who has pulled tote for almost two decades!
Sarah was a force of nature whose indomitable yet compassionate spirit will be missed by all who knew her.
Scout and her brother, Jem, learn the principles of racial justice and open-mindedness from their father, whose just and compassionate acts include an unpopular defense of a black man falsely accused of raping a white girl.
So I can't take Sesame Street away, even though she won't grow up knowing the elder statesmen whose gentle, kind, compassionate personas defined the tenor of a program I saw as a part of myself.
It also gave President Bush, whose reputation for compassionate conservatism has taken a beating during the grueling war in Iraq, a moment to bask in some of the early victories in the five-year, $1.2 billion campaign against the disease that his administration undertook a year and a half ago.
