How to Use good-hearted in a Sentence
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Brown’s Mindy is a snarky wonder with the best lines, while Gooding’s Chad is a good-hearted take on decades of the jerky movie jock.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
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One thing that never left, though, is his desire to be a good-hearted and kind teammate.
—Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
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Hamm is sympathetic as the traumatized but good-hearted cop.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
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Samuel has made a movie that imagines a good-hearted sinner slouching toward salvation one desperate measure at a time.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
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That story, about a good-hearted Nazi and a cluster of Jews who survived, is an anomaly, a heartwarming exception that proves a dreadful rule about human complicity in evil.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
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This kind of good-hearted charm falters in Ishin!’s depictions of women, famous or otherwise, who function not as characters but as accessories to the male heroes and villains.
—Reid McCarter, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2023
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Antonio’s good-hearted partner-in-crime is shot and killed; Antonio himself takes a bullet to the face but miraculously survives, setting him on the path to become El Tragabalas, the bullet-swallowing, vengeance-hungry folk hero.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
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Willie stays lodged in your memory even as the movie shifts to introduce Jerry, a good-hearted septuagenarian who, after a run of bad financial luck, has reluctantly agreed to sell off three of his mom-and-pop funeral homes to the Loewen Group.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
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Meet actor Young Mazino, who plays Paul, Yeun’s naively charming and good-hearted younger brother who somehow makes being catfished and having an affinity for crypto endearing.
—Sara Klausing, Men's Health, 8 Apr. 2023
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Most of us have learned to tolerate and even enjoy off-putting but good-hearted folks of all genders and ages who struggle with nuance and volume control because of neurodivergence, hearing loss, cultural conditioning or family dynamic.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
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