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soft-heartedness - definition and meaning
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She also betrays a trace of her dad's soft-heartedness ; recently, she left one of the freezers open, which happened to contain her beloved pet canary, Missy.
Polly Morgan's wings of desire Miranda Collinge 2010
And it isn2t soft-heartedness on his part, some bygones-be-bygones kind of gibberish.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
First, we'll look at the trivial case a villain who actually benefited from a hero's soft-heartedness several different times, according to my sources.
Lorendiac’s Lists: What To Do With a Supervillain After You Catch Him/Her: 6 Options | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
Note: I am told that Spidey finally in a story I don't think I ever saw overcame this extreme soft-heartedness toward the Black Fox, and handed the guy over to the authorities after catching him red-handed.
Lorendiac’s Lists: What To Do With a Supervillain After You Catch Him/Her: 6 Options | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
We're talking about self-idealized rugged individualism that can't stand bleeding-heart liberalism (soft-heartedness ; weakness) and masks that loathing behind a criticism of a conveniently defined notion of coercion.
Libertarian Capitalists Amazingly Intentionally Myopic 2008
It seems that it was a procedural cock-up that caused the judge to rule that the slaughter order was unlawful, not any judicial soft-heartedness .
Shambo reprieved 2007
If all of this talk about the H-P family suggests soft-heartedness , one needs only to bring up financial matters and the tough guy CEO reappears.
The Un-Carly 2007
With all his soft-heartedness and good-nature, Savka despised women.
The Witch, and other stories 2004
He was notorious for his soft-heartedness , and all the beggars in Kyauktada made him their target.
Burmese Days 2002
So most of the differences that I remember were concerning that: his soft-heartedness , the ease with which he could be … some-times taken in, I would say.
Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976. Interview G-0056-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976
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