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
The undying fame of Indiana’s artwork is proof that love still has blazing energy as both political and private forces, the milk of human kindness.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2018
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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