forbearingly
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Don Miguel de Castro, a black envoy from the African kingdom of Kongo to the Dutch court, looks forbearingly out at us from under his absurd Rembrandtesque hat.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2018
That fall and winter, Long forbearingly shepherded me through rewrites of the papers he assigned, and incrementally I started to get the hang of it.
From The New Yorker ● May 19, 2015
The third story, We're Friends Again, is elegiac; Malloy is moved by the death of a meddlesome woman to reflect forbearingly on his own life and that of his acquaintances.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alcide de Gasperi disdains the theatrical and the violent, speaks softly, listens forbearingly, sits out crises patiently, and acts unhurriedly with an extraordinary instinct for timing.
From Time Magazine Archive
He forbearingly lowered his tail, composed his fur, and walked out of the cage and into the near-by woods as tamely as a house tabby out for a stroll.
From A Woman Tenderfoot by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
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