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  • I don't know what I saw—what creature I conjured from that violent, compassionate act—but I think it was my father, or perhaps my father as I wished he were, some longed-for defender, some fanciful champion, one who wouldn't fling me into a storm, and who, if I was hurt, would make me whole.†   (source)
  • But also those close to him say he is a compassionate man.†   (source)
  • And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.†   (source)
  • You should show more compassion.†   (source)
  • She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.†   (source)
  • That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil.†   (source)
  • "How is it," he wonders aloud as he gazes blankly across Chesapeake Bay, "that a kid with so much compassion could cause his parents so much pain?"†   (source)
  • But our faces, grim behind the light Stacey held, showed no compassion.†   (source)
  • Edgar's mother, on the other hand, would storm around the house, indignant at the idiocy of owners, their laziness, their lack of compassion, flinging papers, slamming doors.†   (source)
  • In her more compassionate moments, Mamaw asked if it made any sense that our society could afford aircraft carriers but not drug treatment facilities—like Mom's—for everyone.†   (source)
  • His compassion returns, and he bows his head at this tragic end to yet another life.†   (source)
  • Newt frowned, his eyes suddenly filled with compassion.†   (source)
  • It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.†   (source)
  • He fought against slavery and capital punishment, and argued for public schools, the education of girls, and the compassionate treatment of the mentally ill.†   (source)
  • Fortunately for you, we British judge man's civility not by his compassion for his friends, but by his compassion for his enemies.†   (source)
  • If you have any compassion at all, you might think of him.†   (source)
  • I didn't expect him to be compassionate or generous.†   (source)
  • He is talented, bright, and compassionate.†   (source)
  • Honor the meaning of your name and show compassion.†   (source)
  • I took six months' compassionate leave from work and there was still not enough of it.†   (source)
  • It's a matter of compassion."†   (source)
  • And after Mr. Shears had gone to work she made a telephone call to the office and took what is called Compassionate Leave, which is when someone in your family dies or is ill.†   (source)
  • He more than did his job; he showed concern and compassion for the poor.†   (source)
  • When I think of all his many actions as a rescuer, big and small, it is this one act that first comes to mind; I think perhaps because it demonstrates such extraordinary compassion.†   (source)
  • You can go running to him all full of pity and compassion, but pity and compassion have never won Harold's respect in the past, and if you don't win his respect, eventually he's going to humiliate you again, intentionally."†   (source)
  • And how could he someday rule a country whose soldiers had been trained to have so little compassion for human life?†   (source)
  • " And if that morsel could not satisfy our hunger to be comforted, Pastor Merrill led us further into Lamentations: " Tor the Lord will not cast off for ever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.'†   (source)
  • There are no harmless, compassionate ways to remake oneself.†   (source)
  • Is this the Others' ultimate goal, the wave to end all waves, stripping our humanity down to its bare, animalistic bones, until we're nothing but soulless predators doing their dirty work for them, as solitary as sharks and with as much compassion?†   (source)
  • He lacked true compassion and he had no stomach for their health problems.†   (source)
  • I remember his face and the compassion in his voice.†   (source)
  • Briony's compassion made Lola's eyes fill, and her voice went husky.†   (source)
  • She was kind, compassionate, a mother who could raise Cal to be the king this country needed to unite us all.†   (source)
  • His eyes are moist with compassion, his hand is moving on me, nervously and with impatience.†   (source)
  • The mantra of the group is "I promise to live with integrity, to have compassion for all living things, to be aware of my surroundings, and to just ask myself to care!"†   (source)
  • Yet no doubt the gracious and compassionate widow would take pity, lift the poor unfortunate to his feet, and bless him with a gentle kiss of forgiveness.†   (source)
  • Most of the square has emptied, fear getting the better of compassion.†   (source)
  • Respect and admiration, compassion and concern.†   (source)
  • Do be compassionate, don't forget that she's been through a lot with these cells, do have patience.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Trillian in a bright compassionate tone, "here's something to occupy you and keep your mind off things."†   (source)
  • As luck would have it, the moment Mrs. van D. turned around I was shaking my head in a combination of compassion and irony.†   (source)
  • "Sky," I say abruptly, suddenly feeling compassion for the pain that is clearly masked behind those blue eyes of his.†   (source)
  • I felt an unexpected surge of compassion for her—orchestrated somehow, with a cinematic music swell almost, although the sadness itself was perfectly real.†   (source)
  • He heard her prayers, and in his infinite compassion he instead removed from her the curse of deliria, with which all humans had been burdened as punishment for the original sin of Eve and Adam.†   (source)
  • People, it says, should welcome and show compassion and charity toward strangers.†   (source)
  • I should feel compassion.†   (source)
  • The eyes, the zigzag of shadow across the care-worn brow, the fine nose, the compassionate lips.†   (source)
  • She was quiet, her expression softening into the spontaneous compassion I'd once been so drawn to Oh, John .†   (source)
  • Mrs. Collins swept my hair away from my face, her expression a mixture of delighted and compassionate.†   (source)
  • For a moment, I felt compassion for myself and all the unhappiness I contained.†   (source)
  • The face of the gym teacher showed both compassion and alarm as she quietly pointed to a group of women some distance away, jumping over the rear fence as they shouted obscenities at me.†   (source)
  • He was a compassionate, curious, humorous intellectual, a great writer, and his religious background never came up, nor did it seem important to me at the time.†   (source)
  • And mine, I think, is to leave my house one day unmarked by whiteness and walk on a compassionate earth with Ruth May beside me, bearing me no grudge.†   (source)
  • The Cult of Compassion.†   (source)
  • Because of her — her suitcase and her story — thousands of Japanese children were learning about what George believed to be the most important values in the world: tolerance, respect, and compassion.†   (source)
  • Another friend, a child psychologist from the college, once commented that Rachel at age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.†   (source)
  • But Carlisle has always been the most humane, the most compassionate of us… I don't think you could find his equal throughout all of history.†   (source)
  • But in my opinion, that nearly weeklong vigil carried out in an entirely impromptu manner by the people of Texas says a huge amount about them, their compassion, their generosity, and their love for their stricken neighbors.†   (source)
  • I had seen dogs with compassion for each other and their young, and with anger and joy and hate and love but this humor went into me more than the other things.†   (source)
  • Until this point Burnham had shown a level of compassion for his workers that was extraordinary for the time.†   (source)
  • Theseus is everything we might want in a ruler: strong, wise, gentle, tough when necessary, determined, coolheaded, compassionate, loyal, honest.†   (source)
  • She knew he was compassionate, and very kind, even though his limited horizons had been exasperating.†   (source)
  • As long as her mother did not interfere, she was a model of compassion, turning waspish, though, when Sethe tried to help.†   (source)
  • For a moment I saw compassion and fear struggle in his face.†   (source)
  • She had accomplished her act of compassion.†   (source)
  • Too smart, too compassionate, too everything.†   (source)
  • Sally Jackson possessed just the right combination of compassion, strength, and beauty.†   (source)
  • Greeley became a company town, dominated by the Monfort family and ruled with a compassionate paternalism.†   (source)
  • You know that the director values compassion as much as efficiency, and this is not the way to treat a concerned loved one.†   (source)
  • It appeared to be a special morning with a sort of pleasing compassion.†   (source)
  • You could be a little more compassionate, Calhoune.†   (source)
  • The look was one of solemn compassion.†   (source)
  • The studio audience clapped and looked compassionate.†   (source)
  • And they were definitely not known for their compassion.†   (source)
  • He's entirely single-minded and totally without compassion, and though he may have loved your mother once, he wouldn't hesitate to kill her.†   (source)
  • Moyer was one of a handful of people whom Mack would love to meet; a brilliant and outspoken man, able to express intense compassion for both people and truth with unusual clarity.†   (source)
  • Being true friends they gave me sensible advice and compassionate sympathy in roughly equal amounts.†   (source)
  • After decades of inadequate services and lack of awareness or compassion, Nathaniel has put a human face on the suffering of thousands and on the work of those, like the Van Horns, whose mission is to help them.†   (source)
  • Dr. Juvenal Urbino imitated her with good humor, making a cavalier's flourish with his top hat, but he did not win the compassionate smile he had hoped for.†   (source)
  • It'd been so long since anyone but Thalia—her former cell mate and her only friend in the world—had shown her compassion.†   (source)
  • Benign Feyd-Rautha, the compassionate one who saves them from a beast.†   (source)
  • About that time Susan remembered how much Dr. Miller's compassion had enabled her to cope.†   (source)
  • Showing tenderness and compassion, the tech stopped the table before it slid Colton fully into the machine, allowing him to keep his head out so that he could see me.†   (source)
  • "Have some Christian compassion," he said.†   (source)
  • Jesus said that the "Kingdom of God" is loving thy neighbor, compassion for the weak and the poor, and forgiveness of those who have erred.†   (source)
  • She thought maybe he had in the end been wavering about leaving their city, and she thought maybe she could have tipped him either way, and she thought he was basically a good and decent man, and she was filled with compassion for him in that instant, as she observed his face with its gaze upon the rain, and she realized she had not in her life felt so strongly for anyone in the world as she had for Saeed in the moments of those first months when she had felt most strongly for him.†   (source)
  • The hot lawyer with the compassionate eyes.†   (source)
  • But Lio was a fine young man with lofty ideals and a compassionate heart.†   (source)
  • Her temper had not diminished with the passing of time, and when a passionate nature is not eased with moments of compassion, melodrama is likely to take the stage.†   (source)
  • You pointed out to me once, during an emotional argument, that the qualities I love in you—that drew me to you—also cause me to resent you: namely your unswerving commitment to the poor, your limitless schedule and your massive compassion for others.†   (source)
  • She was utterly ruthless, devoid of either pity or compassion.†   (source)
  • My compassion?†   (source)
  • But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman-you are as an animal-"an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.†   (source)
  • One of his minions had driven twenty-seven miles to get one, because the governor planned to throw his hat into the Democratic primary in 2008 and knew this was a perfect media moment during which he could portray compassion at its strongest.†   (source)
  • My eyes met Moody's and saw no compassion, only threat.†   (source)
  • "Thanks for your compassion," I say dryly.†   (source)
  • Because I spent the first six years of my life with Tribesmen who taught me mercy and compassion instead of brutality and hatred?†   (source)
  • A sudden compassion for our angel of mercy?†   (source)
  • He seemed compassionate.†   (source)
  • From the west I summon water and ask that you wash this circle in compassion, that the light of the full moon can be used to bestow healing to our group as well as understanding?'†   (source)
  • The words "Oh, you're late" had the effect of making someone who was ordinarily compassionate into someone who was indifferent to suffering — of turning someone, in that particular moment, into a different person.†   (source)
  • A great rush of pity filled her eyes with tears, but then she was in a mood to compassionate any creature who had not the prospect of a twelve-mile walk to get a flower for Gray Stoddard.†   (source)
  • Kate was able to squeeze out a small measure of compassion for him.†   (source)
  • If you fell into that "other" category—Native American, Asian, Middle Eastern—then you got a patchwork welcome committee of the kindest and most compassionate women from the dominant tribes.†   (source)
  • Seeing Ben Wilbanks seemed to explain where I got my affectionate side—my capability for compassion and emotion.†   (source)
  • As a Christian, one assumes great compassion.†   (source)
  • My fourth uncle and aunt could not have children, so out of love and compassion my parents agreed to let them adopt their third son.†   (source)
  • Mr. Parvi has told me much about your wisdom and compassion for the poor.†   (source)
  • "You don't have a right to have compassion," Pearce insisted.†   (source)
  • That is so freaking compassionate of me.†   (source)
  • And even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for their compassion.†   (source)
  • Unexpectedly compassionate.†   (source)
  • In it, he was typically thoughtful and compassionate as he analyzed his father's tortured life.†   (source)
  • The Age of Glass followed the Stone Age as an evolutionary corrective, introducing into human relations a new sense of fragility that fostered compassion.†   (source)
  • We come from Canada, this land that is like every land, filled with the wise, the fearful, the compassionate, the corrupt.†   (source)
  • It sent a wave of compassion racing down my spine.†   (source)
  • She had no compassion for my suffering, and I realized that she was avoiding me.†   (source)
  • Actually, he was a very warm, compassionate man who never stopped feeling sorry for himself.†   (source)
  • I HAD NOT yet become the Lady Lu who is respected today for her graciousness, compassion, and strength.†   (source)
  • "If even outcasts and downtrodden folk like yourselves can't muster a bit of compassion for others," she said, "then there's no hope for this world."†   (source)
  • About honesty and compassion and everything I'd never expected to find in Wesley Rush.†   (source)
  • All languages that derive from Latin form the word compassion by combining the prefix meaning with(corn-) and the root meaning suffering (Late Latin,passio).†   (source)
  • The conflict between his duty and his compassion was revealed by that gesture.†   (source)
  • So then why not this man if she felt so suddenly drawn by compassion for him?†   (source)
  • He has a reputation for brilliance and compassion.†   (source)
  • "Let's call it resignation," he said with compassion.†   (source)
  • His response held compassion laced with skepticism.†   (source)
  • I believe my own years of struggling with depression have left me with similar gifts: inner strength and calm I can rely on, diminished fear, and compassion.†   (source)
  • Poor fool, poor blind fool, I thought with sincere compassion, mugged by an invisible man!†   (source)
  • "Lieutenant Dallas, the Senator and his family appreciate the compassion and interest you've shown in attending the service."†   (source)
  • "It doesn't cost a thing to be compassionate."†   (source)
  • The old man had become too afflicted with age and the agonies of his ailments, "too much an object of compassion, to be one of resentment," Adams noted.†   (source)
  • She was silent for a long moment, and my eyes searched her face for a trace of the compassion that she showed to her mother.†   (source)
  • On Tom's there was a compassion that, if she'd let it, would have made her weep.†   (source)
  • She was a kind and gentle woman, full of compassion for Joe even as she coped with her own loss.†   (source)
  • If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.†   (source)
  • There was only love; there was only compassion and understanding.†   (source)
  • He combines discipline with a powerful work ethic, knowledge, guts, and compassion.†   (source)
  • For an hour Mr. Shin uses Korean and English examples to talk about the compassion of God.†   (source)
  • He looked at her with an odd glance: it had the quality of a salute and of compassion, together.†   (source)
  • GEORGE (Withering) Your sympathy disarms me …. your …. your compassion makes me weep!†   (source)
  • Accordingly, remembering how the gods never fail to reward those who befriend the destitute, and being moved by compassion (for your servant is a man of tender heart) —†   (source)
  • But Lord, hep us to see that this boy was a poor lost soul and deservin' of our compassion.†   (source)
  • The new leather gloves, gloves Estelle hadn't yet worn, they gave to Irene for the compassion she'd shown Ben since the crash.†   (source)
  • I feel compassion and unspeakable love for this thin, fearful ancestor.†   (source)
  • It turned my stomach and made me hate the Bedoowan even more for their total lack of compassion for another living being.†   (source)
  • She would be compassionate to the character of children but tended to avoid holding them on her lap.†   (source)
  • Let us show compassion for the mayor's position in this.†   (source)
  • Then she was acting all understanding and compassionate towards Dad, saying that we just needed to be patient and allow him this time to figure things out.†   (source)
  • Nicolo leaned forward in a complicated, unfathomable gesture that showed he would become a wise and compassionate man.†   (source)
  • Harriet, who to the end of her life retained that rarest of human virtues, compassion, said: "When I give the Home over to Zion Church, what do you suppose they did?†   (source)
  • Oh, it wasn't only the disadvantaged who needed compassion!†   (source)
  • It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect.†   (source)
  • What a stubborn, angry youth he had been then, cheated out of his right to die on the field of honor by a grumbling dwarf who justified unasked-for compassion by labeling it "good business."†   (source)
  • In fact, I think I'm getting closer to my folks through talking to him about them, and I'm learning more respect and compassion and everything for them now that I'm giving a little thought to how it would be without them.†   (source)
  • It'd give him some compassion for his clients?'†   (source)
  • After briefly working as a swine herder, the boy repented and returned home to his father: While he was still a long way of his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.†   (source)
  • Wnd from watching you all those years conduct your life with honesty, dignity, and compassion, I know that there is nothing so powerful as the emboldened kindness of one human being reaching out to another, who is held only by despair.†   (source)
  • Nobody knew Wyoh's virtues better than I…. but she oscillated between fierceness and too-human compassion—and I had learned already that a "head of state," even an acting one, must have neither.†   (source)
  • THEREFORE, AS GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE, HOLY AND DEARLY LOVED, CLOTHE YOURSELVES WITH COMPASSION, KINDNESS, HUMILITY, GENTLENESS AND PATIENCE.†   (source)
  • After an infinity-long few seconds, he looked over at me with compassion and said softly, "I'm sorry, but your dog is dead.†   (source)
  • My compassion is honest.†   (source)
  • It only widens the gap that men of good will are trying desperately to bridge with understanding and compassion.†   (source)
  • Fallopian watched her, nothing it not compassionate.†   (source)
  • It was an exaltation really, lofty as the summer sun; I felt buoyed up by fraternal arms holding me in a snug, loving, compassionate embrace.†   (source)
  • She is immune to KATE'S compassion.†   (source)
  • She felt compassionate: charitable: virtuous.†   (source)
  • Next, there was the passive countenance of Julian, dark hair hanging long, blue eyes containing neither passion nor compassion.†   (source)
  • Doris looked on Herb with more compassionate eyes.†   (source)
  • From this alarm about myself—exaggerated, because it was the first—I moved to a feeling of rage against Metty, for whom the previous night I had felt such compassion.†   (source)
  • He did not know what it was about, but all the long lack of holding, of rocking, of caressing, the hunger for breast and nipple, and the softness of a lap, and the voice-tone of love and compassion, and the sweet feeling of anxiety--all of these were in his passion, and he did not know it because he did not know that such things existed, so how could he miss them?†   (source)
  • Full of concern, for whatever else he might be he was a good man, compassionate, quick to forgive a fall.†   (source)
  • She said this without compassion, as if the girl were a fool not to eat when the food was there.†   (source)
  • We also talked about mediocre publicists who have nothing to say to life and the world as a whole, of petty second-raters who are only too happy when some nation, preferably a small and wretched one, is constantly discussed-this gives them a chance to show off their competence and cleverness, and to thrive on their compassion for the persecuted.†   (source)
  • She was waiting too long; Mary smiled at her, timidly, and in a beginning of bewilderment; and in compassion and self-doubt Hannah came around the table and they knelt side by side.†   (source)
  • As for our wants, they are many and unfilled, for who is so rich or compassionate as to supply them?†   (source)
  • Royal watched him, a distant and angry compassion in his face.†   (source)
  • It was his conviction that a democracy with this effort by its people must and can face its problems, that it must show patience, restraint, compassion, as well as wisdom and strength and courage, in the struggle for solutions which are very rarely easy to find.†   (source)
  • There was no compassion in what this woman was doing, he knew that-there was only a frightening thing, a stern allurement.†   (source)
  • The deep hooded eyes were compassionate and understanding.†   (source)
  • He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, and victories without hope and worst of all, without pity or compassion.†   (source)
  • We are studying compassion for emotional pain in contrast to compassion for physical pain.
    compassion = sympathy for another's suffering
  • Mrs. Sparsit was resolved to have compassion on him, as a Victim.   (source)
    compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
  • Let your compassion be moved, and do not disdain me.   (source)
    compassion = sympathy
  • Still thou canst listen to me and grant me thy compassion.   (source)
  • My unfortunate guest regards me with the tenderest compassion.   (source)
    compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
  • Could they turn from their door one, however monstrous, who solicited their compassion and friendship?   (source)
    compassion = sympathy
  • Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion?   (source)
  • For my own part, I begin to love him as a brother, and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion.   (source)
    compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
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