meekness
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That’s what makes McBride singularly compelling in playing her – she’s constantly holding Carol’s danger and determination under a gossamer veil of meekness.
From Salon • Sep. 29, 2024
“He had a gift of meekness but also a gift of power at the same time,” his mother, Stacy, said in Ryan Lavner’s pre-Masters profile of Bennett for the Golf Channel website.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023
John Paul was known as "The Smiling Pope" because of his meekness and simplicity.
From Reuters • Sep. 4, 2022
I’ve never really understood the intolerance for meekness.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021
The meekness of the wire hangers, with their twisted throats and bent heads — they waited too patiently, too neatly, every one a spinster.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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