milk of human kindness
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Glastonbury stalwarts Elbow proved once again they're the perfect festival band, with frontman Guy Garvey powered entirely by the milk of human kindness.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2022
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
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
She would attribute it to measureless wellsprings of piety or stewardship of the phantom herds that bled out the milk of human kindness.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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