All 5 Uses
compassion
in
Sula
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- She saw their closed faces, their locked eyes, and turned for compassion to the gray eyes of the conductor.†
Chpt 1920 *compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- They were the ones who said she was guilty of the unforgivable thing—the thing for which there was no understanding, no excuse, no compassion.†
Chpt 1939
- And even those Negroes who had moved down from Canada to Medallion, who remarked every chance they got that they had never been slaves, felt a loosening of the reactionary compassion for Southern-born blacks Sula had inspired in them.†
Chpt 1941
- All these years she had been secretly proud of her calm, controlled behavior when Sula was uncontrollable, her compassion for Sula's frightened and shamed eyes.†
Chpt 1965
- Now it seemed that what she had thought was maturity, serenity and compassion was only the tranquillity that follows a joyful stimulation.†
Chpt 1965
Definitions:
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(1)
(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)