How to Use good-hearted in a Sentence
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Elegant, warm, good-hearted and diplomatic, Cinderella guides her daughter with a gentle hand.
— Rivea Ruff, Essence, 9 Apr. 2024 -
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 -
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 -
The duo was the oldest couple in the neighborhood, known as joyful, good-hearted people, Mitchell said.
— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024 -
There’s also a good-hearted indeterminacy at the show’s core that keeps the catty premise from gelling with its nobler themes.
— Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024 -
Hamm is sympathetic as the traumatized but good-hearted cop.
— Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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