kill with kindness

Example Sentences

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Dispatching the living dead on TV and in movies may require the maximum amount of brutality; when it comes to the corporate undead, it is best to kill with kindness.

From Economist

But for Kleinzahler, who swallows the persona in one gulp, Keillor is prepared to kill with kindness.

From The Guardian

But I shall next make the further complaint that, even when making every effort to do the civil, the result is apt to kill with kindness; and—as King Charles the First, when they were shuffling off his mortal coil, politely apologised for the unconscionable long time that his head took to decapitate—so I, too, must draw attention to the fact that the duration of formal ceremonious visits, is far too protracted and long drawn out.

From Project Gutenberg

You don't intend to do it but sometimes you can kill with kindness and be too good in feeding your trees if you don't understand how much fertilization the tree needs.

From Project Gutenberg

Sympathy of itself is blind, and may 'kill with kindness.'

From Project Gutenberg