softhearted

Example Sentences

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Later, Britney wept, and softhearted, hardboiled Hollywood Nate soothed her: “Even gunfighters have to cry sometimes,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Rina Sawayama launched into the country ballad portion of her show accompanied by a softhearted acoustic guitar.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022

Gene Takavic is simply the frosting around several layers surrounding a softhearted center – and we all know that the center is the best part.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2022

This musical, a production of Page 73, Playwrights Horizons and Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, forgoes the commercial niceties and digestible narratives of many Broadway shows, delivering a story that’s searing and softhearted, uproarious and disquieting.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2022

He imagined Gaea laughing at his weakness—a demigod too softhearted to kill monsters.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan