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
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
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
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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