milk of human kindness
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He gulps the milk of human kindness by finding stories of heroism and hope from social media, as well as conducting heart-warming interviews with celebrity friends and members of the public.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2020
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
We gave ’em a chance to pretend that their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
The milk of human kindness does not flow through “Under the Tree,” a blacker than black comedy that is so savage you often don’t know whether to shudder or laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2018
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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