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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

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

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

“My dear Ronnie, don’t be absolutely idiotic,” she said, forbearingly, but rather as though she warned him that he had said quite enough.

From The Jervaise Comedy by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford




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