Sample Sentences forcompassion (editor-reviewed)
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If I see one hungry child, I feel compassion, but when I hear of a million hungry children, I'm overwhelmed and turn my mind to other things.compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
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It is not enough to be compassionate. We must act. It is not enough to act. We must act with intelligence.compassionate = sympathetic when others suffer
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Brain scans showed that while volunteers' recognition of another person's physical pain was immediate, compassion didn't register for some seconds.compassion = sympathy for another's suffering
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But she did not hear the compassion in his invitation. (source)compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
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In the past, I had seen her treat animals with more compassion than she did me. (source)compassion = feeling or showing sympathy for another's suffering
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But somebody with that much compassion could never be the killer we needed. (source)compassion = sympathy for another's suffering
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We talked about one of Morrie's favorite subjects, compassion, and why our society had such a shortage of it. (source)compassion = sympathy for another's suffering
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But also those close to him say he is a compassionate man.† (source)
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LARRY—(compassionately, avoiding his eyes) Sure, I saw it, Harry.† (source)
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Many and many a time this good-natured lady, compassionating the forlorn life-guardsman's condition, gave him an opportunity of seeing Miss Sharp at the Rectory, and of walking home with her, as we have seen.† (source)
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As he began to drift away he also began to see her as a human being, to like and dislike her instead of accepting her as a comparatively movable part of the furniture, and he compassionated that husband-and-wife relation which, in twenty-five years of married life, had become a separate and real entity.† (source)
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I breathed the fresh air of the street as though I'd been suffocated and then I saw her compassionless face studying mine.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in compassionless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
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Ay, ay; and she hath offer'd to the doom—Which, unrevers'd, stands in effectual force—A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears; Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd; With them, upon her knees, her humble self, Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them As if but now they waxed pale for woe: But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears, Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire; But Valentine, if he be ta'en, must die.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncompassionate means not and reverses the meaning of compassionate. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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In the film, the alleged witches swear their innocence before a noncompassionate judge.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncompassionate means not and reverses the meaning of compassionate. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution. (source)compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
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I took six months' compassionate leave from work and there was still not enough of it.† (source)
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