All 18 Uses
compassion
in
Sole Survivor
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- She was a kind and gentle woman, full of compassion for Joe even as she coped with her own loss.†
Chpt 1.1 *compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- Michelle, who had taught Joe Carpenter most of what he knew about love and compassion, was snuffed out in that merciless moment.†
Chpt 1.2
- Yet...the gentleness of her fingertips against his cheek, the sorrow in her eyes, the tenderness in her voice, all marked her as a woman of compassion, whether she was a fugitive from the law or not.†
Chpt 1.3
- Watching her snap photographs of the plot markers, meeting her compelling eyes, hearing the compassion in her soft voice, racked by the mystery of her words—I'm not ready to talk to you yet—he had known, by virtue of sheer common sense, that something was rotten.†
Chpt 1.4
- The pity in their eyes was genuine compassion, but to Joe, although he knew that he was being unfair, they also seemed to be passing a sad judgment on him for being unable to put his life back together.†
Chpt 2.5
- After the crash in Colorado, Beth McKay had referred him to a group called The Compassionate Friends, a nationwide organization for people who had lost children.†
Chpt 2.7compassionate = feeling or showing sympathy for another's suffering
- Beth was slowly finding her way to acceptance through Compassionate Friends in Virginia, so Joe went to a few meetings of a local chapter, but he soon stopped attending.†
Chpt 2.7
- At least, from The Compassionate Friends, he had discovered that this bizarre compulsion, by which he was now seized, was not unique to him.†
Chpt 2.7
- This was something else that he had learned from Compassionate Friends meetings: For most of those who lost children, not just for him, the pain was at times physical, stunning.†
Chpt 2.7
- At meetings of The Compassionate Friends, Joe had never seen any bereaved parent capable of this effervescence.†
Chpt 2.8
- At meetings of The Compassionate Friends, he had learned that following the loss of a child, parents often reported a disturbing inability to care about the suffering of others.†
Chpt 3.9
- Likewise, her speech about the dangers of believing in conspiracy theories and the need for grief therapy, although compassionate and well stated, sounded to Joe as though it had been intended less for him than for the ears of eavesdroppers.†
Chpt 3.9
- The few times that he had gone to meetings of The Compassionate Friends, he had heard other grieving parents speak of the Zero Point.†
Chpt 3.11
- Stable, loving, kind, compassionate.†
Chpt 3.12
- The Church helped too, and charity from the local parish was more compassionately provided and less humbling to receive.†
Chpt 3.12compassionately = with sympathy for another's suffering
- The compassion and the intelligence were still there, in as full measure as ever.†
Chpt 4.14compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- Infuriatingly patient, she smiled compassionately and held out a hand to him.†
Chpt 4.14compassionately = with sympathy for another's suffering
- Even in the faint glow from the instrument panel, her huge and expressive eyes were again as compelling as they had been when he'd first met her in the graveyard, full of compassion and kindness—and a strange glimmering joy that scared him.†
Chpt 4.16compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
Definitions:
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(1)
(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)