How to Use good-hearted in a Sentence

good-hearted

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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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024