kindliness
Example Sentences
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“I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you,” Fred persists, all kindliness.
From New York Times
When Tup persuades Doris to attend a local Fourth of July party, he thinks, “There are lessons in these gatherings about kindliness and generosity.”
From Washington Post
He imbues Richard, the outsider in the family, with an imperturbable kindliness.
From Los Angeles Times
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.”
They portray that height each day by behaving with patience, humor, kindliness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.