Example Sentences

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I say this not to scare potential readers away from the book, but to stress that Beard’s big-heartedness and plain-spokenness makes death less scary than it seems most of the rest of the time.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2021

“Just one example of the big-heartedness and lack of ego that goes with Jesse Plemons,” Goldstein says.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2020

I have found his kind of love and big-heartedness uncommon in the industry.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2020

There is a big-heartedness to the way he writes: humorous, fearless, unflinching.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2018

The President's big-heartedness led him first to pardon Ferry because of his advanced age.

From Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Smith, Henry Bascom