How To Use Compassionate In A Sentence

  • That's, kind of, the heart of what they call compassionate conservatism: that the American experience must be alive and viable for everyone, and that government has a role to help people have the tools so they can help themselves. CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2004
  • I compassionated him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. Chapter 17
  • Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too. Archive 2009-02-01
  • Will Ralphie boy have a similar experience and actually convert from his corrupt “moneychanger” fake Christian mentality and embrace more liberal, compassionate Christian beliefs and behaviors? Firedoglake » Safavian Found Guilty
  • If I didn't have a shoulder to lean on or a compassionate ear willing to listen to me rant, I might've been tempted to quit.
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  • Andrew Carnegie has been called the patron saint of compassionate capitalism.
  • But with such a supple, sensitive and compassionate mind, rigidity is something you need never worry about. Life Begins At 40 « Tales from the Reading Room
  • On recognising their talent, the school authorities turned compassionate and rendered all assistance.
  • How stupid and uncompassionate can a person be?
  • Our attempts at being nonjudgemental, forgiving and compassionate are feeble.
  • Humans are discussed as arrogant and blundering, an unflattering contrast to the innocent and compassionate chimps or gorillas.
  • Physicians must learn to engage in gentle but direct truth-telling in the dispensation of their duty to patients who depend on them for accurate yet compassionate descriptions of their condition.
  • Three types of people live an unlivable life: those who are overly compassionate, overly irritable, or overly sensitive.
  • This isn't to knock all priests who hear confessions - many are compassionate and have a gift of knowing just what to say.
  • Veterinarian Peter van Dongen DRSUtrecht CERT.V.R, MRCVS comments: Noel is one of the most compassionate, caring and dedicated vets I have ever met in my professional life. Archive 2008-08-01
  • But in a statement the force said her re-employment at her old station was a 'rare, exceptional and compassionate case'. The Sun
  • We should aspire, along with being world champions in the sporting arena, to being the most humane and compassionate people on this planet.
  • Tenderness is more of a show of strength than brute force, because it is harder to be compassionate than it is to be mighty.
  • Above these foundation stones compassionate capitalism rises like a beacon.
  • The vicar remained, his son said, utterly uncompassionate.
  • Both move questions of theodicy away from attempts at explanation and defense and toward compassionate response and solidarity with those who suffer.
  • When something sensational happens to us, sharing the happiness of the occasion with friends intensifies our joy. Conversely, in times of trouble and tension, when our spirits are low, unburdening our worries and fears to compassionate friends alleviates the stress. 
  • Then with deliberate grace, Hilda rose from her chair, a tall figure among them, looking down with a hint of compassionateness on the little man at her left. The Path of a Star
  • Because they tend to be compassionate and sensitive, they respond best to personal recognition and acknowledgement.
  • Inaudible victims do not win compassionate co-workers with the ease of those who can articulate their needs in cogent words.
  • No surprise, then, that in the compassionate noughties, the antimaterialist backlash has begun. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another archbishop believes the government ‘is destroying our international reputation, brutalising the nation's attitudes and making us a less compassionate people’.
  • From the moment George Bush coined his vapid "compassionate conservatism" rhetoric during the 2000 campaign, principled conservatives knew they were in trouble. The Reality Check
  • Character faults and foibles surface slowly and are dealt with compassionately.
  • They performed in a responsible manner, and toward the defeated, demoralized Germans they were sensitive, caring and compassionate.
  • He indicated that creating an illusion of being honest, compassionate, and generous is important to gaining and maintaining power.
  • When something sensational happens to us, sharing the happiness of the occasion with friends intensifies our joy. Conversely, in times of trouble and tension, when our spirits are low, unburdening our worries and fears to compassionate friends alleviates the stress. 
  • Under them, the entire company -- most notably McLeavy as a tender-tough Stella and Tim Richards as unpolished but compassionate gentleman-caller Mitch -- vivify a revival that works to remind anyone who's forgotten that here's one of the handful of preeminent 20-century American plays. David Finkle: Blanchett as Blanche in Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire
  • He is very caring and compassionate, and is very protective towards his mother and sister.
  • At the same time, though, a monk who deliberately ends the life of a patient, even from compassionate motives, is expelled from the monkhood and can never reordain in this life, so there's no room for euthanasia or assisted suicide. Educating Compassion by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
  • Vera Brittain talks about this, about the sense in which she sees the professional nurses as a de-sexed figure, an unfeminine, hard, uncompassionate person.
  • They were compassionate, punctual which is a big deal to me, professional and articulate. Hollye Harrington Jacobs: After the Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Now What?
  • While adopting the emollient tones of compassionate Conservatism, he has also toned down the virulent anti-Europeanism.
  • They encourage the viewer to take a more compassionate look at his or her fellow creatures, including the most despised and marginalized.
  • The public's response to the crisis appeal was generous and compassionate.
  • Without labeling myself as ‘mentally ill’ the response I often get is compassionate and commiserative.
  • Bishop Jones is a warm-hearted, compassionate and gentle person who is revered by many in Sligo and throughout the Diocese of Elphin.
  • One of the lessons she tried to teach her son is to be compassionate and have a warm heart.
  • But then her public championing of compassionate causes is largely at odds with the high-handed way she has treated those who obstruct her.
  • nor silver-shedding tears could penetrate her uncompassionate sire
  • Tim was noted at all times for his generous, caring and compassionate nature.
  • The beloved is portrayed as gentle, sensitive, tender and compassionate.
  • The world moves on, and business needs, as always, trump personal animosities which is why this 'compassionate' release occurred. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • As prosecutor, she developed a reputation as a tough and compassionate legal administrator.
  • May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
  • Danlo couldn't help laughing because Bardo was a funny man, at once passionate and self-pitying, compassionate and slightly cruel. THE BROKEN GOD
  • As a qualified pet bereavement counsellor I would like to help pet owners compassionately and in confidence.
  • After that the sad and discomfortable night had spent it selfe, and the break of day was beginning to appeare; Ancilla the waiting-woman, according as she was instructed by her Lady, went downe and opened the Court doore, and seeming exceedingly to compassionate the Schollers unfortunate night of sufferance, saide unto him. The Decameron
  • He also has an uncompassionate record on social issues.
  • Throughout his papacy. Pope Pius XII was almost universally, regarded as a saintly man, a scholar, a man of peace, a tower of strength, and a compassionate defender and protector of all victims of the war and genocide that had drenched Europe in blood.
  • The Squid And The Whale may sound downbeat and depressing, but it is so true to life, it turns out funny and compassionate.
  • Compassion is not just feeling with someone, but seeking to change the situation. Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action! Desmond Tutu 
  • When something sensational happens to us, sharing the happiness of the occasion with friends intensifies our joy. Conversely, in times of trouble and tension, when our spirits are low, unburdening our worries and fears to compassionate friends alleviates the stress. 
  • The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  • My barmaid is a very compassionate woman with very specific ideas about cancer pain. The Healthy Barmaid, the New Minister of Health
  • How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerate of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of this.
  • I compassionated him, and ... felt a wish to console him (108). Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
  • His compassionateness hath been the fountain of their deliverances. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
  • I found the photo here when I was uploading mine about a week ago which Fiend and scums deleted because its showed Jesus Christ as a compassionate and merciful soul and "God forbid" that "christian hunter" will get offended because they need their killing Jesus. Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
  • The expression on the goddess' face was merciful and compassionate.
  • Meanwhile, Lynley, who's been away on compassionate leave following the murder of his wife (in the preceding novel), is summoned back to duty to guide his possible replacement, an attractive divorcee and closet tippler named Isabelle Ardery. Book review of Elizabeth George's 'This Body of Death'
  • May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
  • Susan's expression went indeterminable, then she wiped her hands on the apron she was wearing, took it off and walked over to Emily, giving her a big compassionate hug.
  • Many are mourning the death of a warm, intelligent and compassionate young woman.
  • The judge was a member of the Romilly family, a byword for liberality and compassionate public service, active in penal reform and similar good causes.
  • To be clement is to be lenient and compassionate, or, in the case of weather, perfectly heavenly.
  • May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
  • At times, we're all the weakest link, and if we can't be compassionate enough to make allowances for that, we should at least be self-motivated enough to realise it.
  • Public sector general insurance companies are quietly dispensing with compassionate appointments in a bid to rationalise manpower utilisation.
  • I'm afraid this whole episode demonstrates that we have become less compassionate as a society.
  • One measure of a civilized and compassionate society is how well it treats its prison population.
  • Renowned for her compassionate nature, her many works have inspired and uplifted thousands of people over the years and one of her greatest friends was Beatrix Potter.
  • She plays a compassionate nurse with a paraplegic fiancé.
  • The frequently brilliant and sometimes searing interviewer has a compassionate side that discomposes itself into a medley of expressions on camera.
  • He was comatose from the raging infection in his left hand and could not tell the compassionate, but practical, pilot who he was or where to take him so they left him at the spring of Asclepios. The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber
  • Then, within a day or so, cooler, more compassionate heads apparently prevailed and the charges against her were dropped. T2: INFILTRATOR
  • There was especially a hoy who, after being compassionated in money for his misfortune, continued to fling his wooden leg into the air and wave it at our window by some masterly gymnastics; and there was another boy who kept lamenting that he had no mother, till, having duly feed and fed him, I suggested, “But you have a father?” Familiar Spanish Travels
  • Then, within a day or so, cooler, more compassionate heads apparently prevailed and the charges against her were dropped. T2: INFILTRATOR
  • Her character didn't come across as compassionate and concerned, except in how it directly influenced her.
  • This Gori, "an incomparable man," writes Alfieri, "good, compassionate, and with all his austerity and ruggedness of virtue (_con tanta altezza e ferocia di sensi_) most gentle," appears literally to have nursed Alfieri in this period of moral sickness as one might nurse The Countess of Albany
  • For many spiritually oriented folks, this can include providing compassionate service or maintaining spiritual disciplines such as meditation.
  • So nice, compassionate, slightly innumerate people who genuinely want to help the homeless could conceivably have been taken in.
  • Many therapists have been told that they are more sensitive, intelligent and compassionate than the patient's callous, self-involved, demanding and critical spouse.
  • PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Up front this morning, President Bush is on his way to Cleveland, as Leon just reported, where he will be making a speech about what he calls compassionate conservatism. CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2002
  • After her return from compassionate leave following the death of her father, they had been prepared to rally round.
  • When something sensational happens to us, sharing the happiness of the occasion with friends intensifies our joy. Conversely, in times of trouble and tension, when our spirits are low, unburdening our worries and fears to compassionate friends alleviates the stress. 
  • The visionary forms in which the deities are perceived in meditation and portrayed in art are simply appearances – their compassionate play, as the tantras say.
  • When the term compassionate conservative was invented, that person had just met Dean. Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative
  • She was granted compassionate leave to attend her father's funeral.
  • The silence comes from an allegedly compassionate desire to protect or cosset the poor, rather than treating them like responsible adults.
  • My friend - no ordinary being - a doctor by profession, a compassionate man by nature, decided he had to delve into the world of alternate healing to reach out to his fellow brethren.
  • Compassion is not just feeling with someone, but seeking to change the situation. Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action! Desmond Tutu 
  • ‘It's just your imagination, dearie,’ the nurse said compassionately.
  • The mother who appeared in the song was a compassionate looking woman, wearing a chuba (Tibetan for Tibetan dress), grey hair at the temples, she is the younger sister of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jetsun Pema. Phayul Latest News
  • People who condemn such unconstrained lifestyle choice are supposedly uncompassionate. Times, Sunday Times
  • My father was a deeply compassionate man.
  • For such a kind, gentle, and compassionate person, the upheaval of aggression has ceased.
  • Before you can truly succeed as a compassionate capitalist, you need to answer that question honestly.
  • Her approach to their suffering is compassionate, even overly sentimental in places.
  • I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds .
  • She was allowed compassionate leave from work to attend her father's funeral.
  • If you think I'm uncompassionate or worse, look at what Pittsburg Steelers football legend Terry Bradshaw is doing.
  • It's a completely dissociative view of American politics—that there are these corrupt, tone-deaf politicans totally unconnected to the caring, compassionate person.
  • She was compassionate and spontaneous - a handsome if not conventionally beautiful woman with hazel eyes and a distinctive aquiline nose.
  • But he's also a compassionate, caring man whose heart melts for people who are suffering
  • He was never paroled, but was released instead on compassionate grounds.
  • The hospital staff are an inspiration: professional, empathic and compassionate. Times, Sunday Times
  • Directors also strive to foster a cooperative spirit and friendly attitude among employees and a compassionate demeanor toward the families.
  • We regard ourselves as a compassionate, tolerant society that respects the rights of others.
  • These exemptions were designed to be applied in cases where there is a compassionate need to waive the rules.
  • We can either emphasise this intolerance, as extremists and fundamentalists do, or we can make a concerted effort to make the compassionate voice of religion audible in our troubled world.
  • She has a wise, compassionate face.
  • The caring and compassionate are also capable of being utterly ruthless, as Mrs Williams was sometimes claimed to be.
  • Because they tend to be compassionate and sensitive, they respond best to personal recognition and acknowledgement.
  • Bloomberg can't afford to look uncompassionate in the current environment.
  • Pilotshark, I again commend you on your compassionate approach to teh trolls — offering them help to overcome their affliction, rather than simple derision. Think Progress » CNN Taps Unhinged Conservative Blogger Erick Erickson As Regular Political Commentator
  • No one but the stone-hearted or the compassionately impaired could look at millions of people turning out to stand on line in some of the most dangerous real estate in the world to vote and not be inspired.
  • Could we not have protected our borders in more humane and compassionate ways?
  • Mrs. Cole, a paragon of maternal wisdom, is credited with the theory of pleasure that informs Volume II: she considered pleasure of one sort or other as the universal port of destination, and every wind that blew thither a good one, provided it blew nobody any harm: that she rather compassionated than blamed those unhappy persons who are under a subjection they cannot shake off .... How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision
  • Doreen was renowned for her caring and compassionate nature and her kindness to so many people.
  • The compassionate capitalist sees herself as a business entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur at the same time.
  • A lady of gentle disposition and kind manner, Nora was imbued with a caring and compassionate nature.
  • It was dark by the time they entered the avenue of Ravenswood Castle, a long straight line leading directly to the front of the house, flanked with huge elm-trees, which sighed to the night-wind, as if they compassionated the heir of their ancient proprietors, who now returned to their shades in the society, and almost in the retinue, of their new master. The Bride of Lammermoor
  • They enjoin members to be ‘gentle and compassionate, kind and courteous’.
  • She assured him that she and her colleagues would adopt a compassionate and humane approach to all such cases.
  • He had very, very compassionate eyes and a love radiated from the man.
  • Wonder Woman, often times written very pretentious and regal, is written to show her humorous and compassionate side. Comically Challenged: The Brave and The Bold #33 « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
  • These charities depend on the compassionate feelings and generosity of the general public.
  • See, I would have loved to be able to make this list instead: amiable, charitable, compassionate, devoted, duteous, and regardful.
  • Americans are a forgiving people, a compassionate people, a people who are always ready to give a guy a second chance.
  • If they are confident and compassionate, we are uplifted and encouraged.
  • In the book of Jonah, which most scholars consider post-exilic, God showers compassionate forgiveness on sinners in the faraway city of Nineveh. One World, Under God
  • Manu flew back on Sunday after his compassionate leave following thehorrific atttack on the Togo team bus at the African Nations Cup inAngola in which three people were killed.
  • But since we are tallying “extermination/expulsion of subhuman populations”, one group that somehow that always ignored by so many ‘loving, compassionate’Zoinest Christians and Zionists alike is the Christians of Palestine whose luck was not much better than the Muslim of Palestine either. It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew « Antiwar.com Blog
  • Medical reports confirm he is in a terminal decline and lawyers have written to prison authorities demanding he is released on compassionate grounds.
  • Also, if there is a means of rendering an animal insensible before cutting, then surely this is what is required in a compassionate society.
  • Such expanded, compassionate use programs with monitoring using the system we suggest could be the nidus of a transformation in the willingness of patients, companies, the FDA, Congress and society at large to support phase IV trials, albeit in innovative more cost-effective new ways, such as what we suggest. Sunil Chacko: Innovations in Phase IV Clinical Trials for Change in Health Care
  • It's a country of dreamers, and doers, and people are compassionate about their neighbors, it's just unbelievable.
  • How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerate of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of this.
  • When something sensational happens to us, sharing the happiness of the occasion with friends intensifies our joy. Conversely, in times of trouble and tension, when our spirits are low, unburdening our worries and fears to compassionate friends alleviates the stress. 
  • Demons, hearing this word, thought it meant dayadhvam, meaning "sympathize" or "be compassionate"; in the Oriental context demons were not evil spirits but deities of the old matriarchal religion, who preached karuna, mother-love. Archive 2008-04-01
  • In the next phrase he praised God as "compassionate and merciful," the words religious Muslims incant regularly as they pray. What Rick Warren Said
  • You were a very caring and compassionate man, who was always there to lend a helping hand.
  • Being a servant means always wanting to help others; it is being compassionate and merciful.
  • Since growing up with a lesbian sister and her bisexual lover, he's completely compassionate for all sexualities and most everyone regardless of anything, really.
  • But in a statement the force said her re-employment at her old station was a 'rare, exceptional and compassionate case'. The Sun
  • He is a compassionate man with vision who tirelessly pursues his lofty goals.
  • But there is another truth, equally in. disputable, which is that a man who aspires to govern mankind ought to bring to the task generous sentiments, compassionate sympathies, and noble and elevated thoughts. On Affairs in Greece
  • We also have an over-compassionate bench and judiciary more concerned with the theory of justice than with its practical implementation.
  • To begin with, you'd strive for being a mensch by giving cheerfully and compassionately and not grudgingly.
  • The public's response to the crisis appeal was generous and compassionate.
  • The scheme is not in any sense a benevolent scheme and no benevolent or compassionate payments can be made therefrom.
  • You and your Board should be thoroughly ashamed of your uncaring and uncompassionate position respecting children and men.
  • It's not that I am an uncompassionate man, but I guess my bedside manner has evaporated somewhat over the years, considering the majority of my patients are unconscious.
  • Not that he knew he was back, he simply found himself in a room full of monsters, lanky, pasty giants clad in disgusting nether garments, who, rather than beat him compassionately into stability, kept their distance and moaned.
  • She's been given sick / compassionate / maternity leave.
  • Two things evidently manifest this compassionateness in Christ: — (1.) Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
  • Perhaps the great compassionateness now visible in contemporary society will stand as the most palpable result of fifteen hundred years of Christian predominance in Europe. CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY
  • We feel that besides this being the most unorganised event we have ever walked, officials were very uncompassionate and downright rude.
  • With the blood welling from a shothole in his broad, burly chest and the seal of death already settling on his ashen brow, he was scowling up into the half-compassionate, half-contemptuous faces about him. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila
  • And I believe we must match our compassionate hearts to our preservative minds.
  • Perhaps Jinendra felt compassionate toward a poor shroff (money-lender) who can not defend his suit successfully without that title-deed. Guns of the Gods
  • All fearless in her virgin purity, she listened neither to the Goblins who eyed her hungrily from the shapeless trees and besought her to show them favour, nor to the warnings of compassionate Fays who bade her return to the Crystal Tower. The Fairies and the Christmas Child
  • MORIAL: This order to evict, which is what is, is neither sensible, nor is it compassionate. CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2005
  • But Holy Trinity had ceased forging that armor and was sending Catholic kids off fortified with nothing more than compassionate impulses.
  • Then I thanked and blessed this little ponytailed brunette for asking and being so compassionate. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
  • I cannot bear the thought of one so compassionate and noble as you having such a low opinion of me.
  • And once you notice the noticer, your witness consciousness, you'll bring compassionate awareness to everything you do, enabling you to embody and give your true self -- a divine being of love and light. Valerie Reiss: 10 Things I Learned at Yoga Teacher Training
  • February 1st, 2010 at 4: 37 pm tombaker says: that darned mosser, so proud of his grubby lil’ fingerbooger. not bad, for a feller who gave up on reality and sincerity so very long ago … if he prays hard, and stays in school and away from drugs, he mught just stand a fighting chance. lucky thing, for kids like him, that there are so many compassionate liberals in the world. Think Progress » San Francisco Commonwealth Club postpones O’Keefe event.
  • My mother would scold for being a prideful and uncompassionate gossip.
  • How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerate of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of this.
  • Moon in Pisces is otherworldy, intuitive, compassionate, private and impressionable. Poking around Wittgenstein + Bruce Nauman
  • Then the hound brake her neck and dragging her forth of the hole, threw her down dead: and thus was exemplified the truth of the saying, Who hath compassion shall at the last be compassionated. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Generally, people who are astrologers or consult astrologers are humane, compassionate, insightful people, by and large.
  • I am kind and honest , open - minded and warmhearted, artistic and compassionate.
  • Knowing that people like Peter hold such extreme uncompassionate views towards boat people - now that scares me.
  • Conservative addict, is that what you guys call “compassionate conservatism”? Think Progress » Woman Who Was Denied Insurance Due To Pre-Existing Condition Looking To Get Married For Health Care
  • All the mothers emphasized that their martyred son was the better child: he was the best looking, the smartest, the most compassionate and loving of all the siblings.
  • Is this what they call compassionate conservatism? Think Progress » The Bush Record: More Poverty, More Uninsured
  • These charities depend on the compassionate feelings and generosity of the general public.
  • While there are many Buddhas in Buddhism, starting with the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, Amida Buddha is unique in that he is the embodiment of Buddhahood made completely available to all beings in all times and in all circumstances, offering complete and unconditional liberation through his compassionate activity. Printing: Boors versus Buddhists
  • Lott, in their view, had come across as too much of a "seg," an embarrassment in a party eager to sell itself as a Big Tent of "compassionate conservatism. Ghosts Of The Past
  • The public's response to the crisis appeal was generous and compassionate.
  • The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  • Could we not have protected our borders in more humane and compassionate ways?
  • The Lord refines His disciples into compassionateness. The Epistles of St. Peter
  • Not that Rangers’ combined weaponry this season is granting opposition rearguards compassionate abeyance either.
  • To be clement is to be lenient and compassionate, or, in the case of weather, perfectly heavenly.
  • When something sensational happens to us, sharing the happiness of the occasion with friends intensifies our joy. Conversely, in times of trouble and tension, when our spirits are low, unburdening our worries and fears to compassionate friends alleviates the stress. 
  • Yea, we have both here together, — tender compassionateness and assistance. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
  • Call it compassionate conservatism on offense.
  • May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
  • She looked over to Mitsos, ‘I thought paladins were good and fought for what was right, and were compassionate and courteous.’
  • Bishop Jones is a warm-hearted, compassionate and gentle person who is revered by many in Sligo and throughout the Diocese of Elphin.
  • But after eight months he is still at the vicarage, takes no services at St James's and remains on compassionate leave.

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