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good-heartedness

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  • noun Alternative spelling of goodheartedness.

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Examples

  • The straightforward good-heartedness – "May you always do for others / And let others do for you" – is uncharacteristic, but the man himself must have been happy with it, since he stuck two versions back-to-back on Planet Waves.

    In praise of ... Forevery Young | Editorial 2011

  • It's as if we keep our good-heartedness on ice - only to be thawed in case of emergency.

    After Tucson tragedy, how long will the goodwill last? Courtland Milloy 2011

  • It started as a story where you need courage and humility and good-heartedness and all that to resist evil and destroy the Ring, so it has to end that way (even if sword skills come in handy along the way – but the battle before the gates of Morder was a distraction, not the endgame).

    The God Tangent « 2009

  • Neither is teen-idol handsome, yet the essential good-heartedness of their characters ensures the audience roots for them to get the girl.

    We’re All Jesse’s Girls 2010

  • Yet at least – for just a few days – it reminded us all of what's really good about our nation and the good-heartedness of our people.

    Obama faces tough sell, analysts say 2010

  • This is a wonderful list, and it expresses so well all the generosity, good-heartedness, and love of writing that makes reading your posts and following your life such a pleasure.

    What I Know For Sure 2008

  • How can we call on our innate intelligence to see what helps and what hurts, what escalates aggression and what uncovers our good-heartedness?

    Archive 2009-08-01 William Harryman 2009

  • The middle of Tel-Aviv, 2008, center of hip Tel-Aviv culture, and one hundred young African refugees aged 18 to 45 are there, when all they have are ragged clothing and the good-heartedness of the neighbors.

    Israel: Modern Day Exodus, on African Refugees and their Right for Medical Care 2008

  • I could tell she truly did believe what I was saying by her sincerity and good-heartedness, which shone through with every smile.

    Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea Chelsea Handler 2008

  • Mr. Rouse, whose idea was to steep suburbia in the good-heartedness of his small-town boyhood, was one of the ecumenical church's founding members.

    Be Nice, or What? 2008

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