How to Use openhearted in a Sentence
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The Great North has a slightly off-kilter but mostly openhearted view of the world.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2021
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Most have fallen short of their dreams, but the lives of these low achievers feel richer and more openhearted than the few who escaped and claimed wealth or fame.
—Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times, 30 Apr. 2017
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As this series is aimed at 5- and 6-year-olds, even the occasional heavy moment is handled with a light and openhearted touch.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2021
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But as this verse notes, being generous and openhearted means God will also see to it that you are rewarded.
—Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 10 June 2022
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Anne captures the openhearted, infectious confidence in justice that leads Gouges to refuse the offer.
—Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
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The space in our lives that Darrell should occupy remains an emptiness, a yawning lack that even Skye, the most openhearted of young men, can’t help undervaluing.
—Donna Britt, Washington Post, 26 June 2020
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Its emotional core, though simplistic, is just as big and openhearted.
—Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
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Local etiquette People living in most places in Greece, including Athens, tend to be very openhearted.
—Danai Papageorgiou, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
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Despite the comical extent of his cluelessness in the sport, Lasso manages to win over the hearts of the team—and those of the show's viewers—through his honesty, openhearted nature, and endearing charm.
—Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 July 2021
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Grooming children for a big, accepting, openhearted kind of life in which there are many worse things in the world than a little boy who grows up to do an uncanny impersonation of Cher.
—Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
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After the first debate, several voters cited Biden’s openhearted defense of Hunter as a standout moment in the debate.
—Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
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But to walk in unawares, knowing only that $12 will get you a taste of something beautiful and transporting, the generous fruits of Tjahjadi’s openhearted labor, is at least half the fun.
—New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
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Thomas, who now lives in Philadelphia, is an author who writes books, television screenplays and openhearted comedies for live theater.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2022
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The remaining two pieces on the shortish program, in their own ways, reflect a need to strike a chord of openhearted accessibility with a general concert public.
—John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
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Its openhearted appeal to viewer emotions is made on the basis of real willingness to show its characters in a light that’s imperfect, that’s un-spirational.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
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The openhearted ambition that New York represents feels in peril in a country where nativist beliefs are flourishing.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
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Throughout the album, Lenker grasps at Big Questions with openhearted curiosity.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
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Moss tries to write a kind of poetry that his American juniors rarely attempt: the first-person record of wisdom, jocular or weighty, gained in a moment or a lifetime, unguarded, openhearted, profuse.
—Stephen Burt, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2017
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His simple dignity and empathy are ballasts for a country that has been teetering between an openhearted, just future and a self-righteous, narrow-minded past.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2020
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The clothes were eclectic without being self-consciously weird, which was an enormous shift because Michele has been fashion’s primary purveyor of openhearted weirdness.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2021
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Her brilliant work and public persona offer an openhearted invitation into what language can do to connect people—to the natural world, to one another and to themselves.
—Amy Cannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2022
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Myriad people who know him describe Smith as genuinely kind, generous and openhearted.
—Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022
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But as with many game-changing artists, what’s inimitable — the shuddering, bluesy warmth of his alto saxophone; the openhearted melodicism of his compositions — is as important to his legacy as his formal reinventions.
—New York Times, 6 July 2017
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Sacrificing knowledge of a partner’s appearance, the reasoning goes, is an act indicative of an openhearted and honorable spirit.
—New York Times, 19 July 2021
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Wilson is, as always, Anderson’s ideal vessel, openhearted and phony all at once, impossible to begrudge.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
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That’s the turf Taika Waititi steps onto with his incandescently strange and openhearted black comedy Jojo Rabbit.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Oct. 2019
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The War went beyond social ambivalence to express openhearted, cross-cultural humanism.
—Armond White, National Review, 12 Aug. 2022
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Fellow musicians paid attention to her supple voice and openhearted songwriting.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
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But Jacobs (director of offbeat indies like Momma’s Man and Terri) has chosen to make a wry, openhearted, vaguely outré romantic comedy, albeit a bittersweet one.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 8 May 2017
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Situated on the fourth floor of a nondescript building in Chinatown, whose other tenants skew medical, it is run by Olivia Shao, a curator whose sharp mind and esoteric eye are consistently matched by her openhearted approach.
—Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2021
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