great-hearted
Britishadjective
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Clive Barnes of The Times called it “a sprawling, rambunctious, great-hearted show.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
Baseball has long seen itself as America’s game, a game as great-hearted, humble and fundamentally decent as America itself.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2017
"The great-hearted adventurers" who opened the West were replaced by men "trained in petty economies."
From Time Magazine Archive
"The record of such dark and devious doings is the shattering of an idol," wrote the Daily Express, "the idol of a great-hearted friend whose statue stands in Grosvenor Square."
From Time Magazine Archive
When prayers were said and all the grain was scattered great-hearted Thrasymedes in a flash swung the axe, at one blow cutting through the neck tendons.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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