softhearted

Example Sentences

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It’d be hard for anyone to compete with Thornton, but “Devil’s Peak” isn’t helped much by the bland performance of its lead, Hopper Penn, who plays Charlie’s softhearted son Jacob.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 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

I'm not being softhearted or I'm not trying to be anything.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2020

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

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan