milk of human kindness
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There was a depth, despite everything, to her fabled simplicity, and a courage to her lack of complications; even as the world was curdling around her, she insisted on the milk of human kindness.
From The New Yorker • May 14, 2019
Its final scene, the culmination of a relentless series of hardships, losses and deaths, offers a moment of startling compassion and intimacy — the very milk of human kindness made flesh.
From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2019
Lady Macbeth worries that her husband is "too full o' th' milk of human kindness".
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2016
They've allowed the milk of human kindness nowhere near this production, but that is the way it had to be.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2014
Not that she had suddenly become filled with the milk of human kindness.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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