All 8 Uses of
compassion
in
Catch-22
- Actually, he was a very warm, compassionate man who never stopped feeling sorry for himself.†
Chpt 4 *
- 'You poor bastards,' Chief White Halfoat murmured compassionately after a few moments had passed.†
Chpt 12
- Yossarian swore at Aarfy again and continued searching intently, cold with a compassionate kind of fear now for the little bouncy and bizarre buck-toothed tentmate who had smashed Appleby's forehead open with a ping-pong racket and who was scaring the daylights out of Yossarian once again.†
Chpt 15
- Yossarian inquired compassionately.†
Chpt 16
- The chaplain's wife was intuitive, gentle, compassionate and responsive.†
Chpt 25
- The chaplain was moved almost to tears by the harassed, bedraggled picture the captain presented, and he filled with deference and compassion at the thought of the many severe rigors the poor man had to endure daily.†
Chpt 25
- Yossarian felt a flood of compassion sweep over him.†
Chpt 28
- 'Aarfy, they're coming for you,' he said in a flood of compassion, shouting to be heard above the noise.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help