Word: goodheartedness
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Despite all these impediments to pleasant and easy relations . . . the Russians really do not want to lose friends throughout the world, nor build up resistance. They do not want to defy world opinion. . . . The Russian people are sincere and goodhearted. It is a pity, perhaps it will be a tragedy...
"Mr. Perkins," the play's leading character, is a rough-&-ready Chicago sausage manufacturer. He has journeyed to Russia to "see Mr. Stalin and learn the weaknesses there must be in this system." Coarse, shrewd, unlettered, but basically goodhearted, Mr. Perkins is not a bad fellow. He visits a...
Like Carlo Collodi's children's classic, the picture is a morality tale. Kindly old Wood Carver Geppetto carves a puppet so lifelike that he is given life. But before the live puppet can become a boy he must become truthful, courageous, unselfish. His one constant companion in...
Dr. Ravenel was a goodhearted, long-winded, affable Unionist who predicted that the Southerners would fight like jackasses and heroes. Southerners, said he, were an honor to the fortitude, but an insult to the intelligence, of the human race. Why, sir, they would become an example in history of much...
The unblinking realism of Farrell's pictures of lower-class life made critics overlook their monotony, their repetitions, and the fact that all the characters seemed to divide their time between languid day dreaming and fierce battling with other dreamers. When he finished his Studs Lonigan trilogy three years...