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kindliness

[kahynd-lee-nis] / ˈkaɪnd li nɪs /


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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

The friend had gone, with his kindliness and his easy camaraderie, and the brother too, who had mocked me for nibbling at my nails.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier