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The obvious reason for this is that shape implies – and affects – personality and character: Oliver Hardy played the stereotypical fat, jolly man, Ernie Wise the short guy with compensatingly big ideas.

From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2010

He pacified his conscience by promising himself a compensatingly harder self-discipline, purifications the more complete and thorough.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

But this toast we disallowed, on the ground that it would spoil our kindly feeling, and besides, as Monty observed compensatingly, he would be toasted enough when he got there.

From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Raymond, Ernest

It came to be a great burden, as to time and trouble, but of course it was at the same time compensatingly agreeable to be so celebrated and such a center of homage.

From A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 2. by Twain, Mark

Oscar was born blind and, as frequently occurs in such cases, the touch-sense compensatingly developed extraordinarily.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)