kindliness

Example Sentences

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She delivers a vocally expressive performance and gives the digitally recreated face the necessary intelligence, wit and kindliness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025

“Dogs and horses, courtesy, kindliness and community service, count with her,” biographer Giles Brandreth wrote.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2022

Trilling had published a scolding review of “Portnoy’s Complaint,” characterizing the then 36-year-old Roth as “grimly deterministic,” and the novel itself as lacking “virtues of courage, kindliness, responsibility.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2018

Yet this streetwise kindliness is like a shark fin cutting through clear water.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2016

That was the signature of my grandmother and the Greek ladies of her generation: the kindliness of their despair.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides