(n.) Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.
(v. t.) To pity.
Example Sentences:
(1) I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox, in full capacity of love and compassion,” she wrote.
(2) These boys showed a lack of compassion to our daughter and to their community as a whole."
(3) Speaking at a film festival in Dubai he said: "My compass has not stopped spinning," referring to the many policy switches made by the party he previously supported.
(4) The letter is particularly striking given that some of signatories are on the party's centre right, such as Progress and Policy Network, and others on the left, such as key figures at Compass and Class.
(5) Male eastern red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) under controlled laboratory conditions exhibit unimodal magnetic compass orientation either in a trained compass direction or in the direction of their home pond.
(6) The grand mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammad, said Islam did not need a reformation “since the normative principles and practices of the religion allow Muslims to harmoniously coexist within pluralist societies that are based on the universal values of compassion and justice”.
(7) What it says is that their moral code is lacking any kind of compass we can endorse,” said Sharan Burrow, the Ituc general secretary.
(8) There has been a great deal of media coverage about the need for staff to demonstrate compassion.
(9) It seems that Mrs May’s vicarage upbringing has left her more than a little lacking in Christian compassion.
(10) When Malcolm Turnbull was asked about Asha specifically he said he wouldn’t comment on individual cases but that we’ll be treating all people with compassion.
(11) What an inspiration: teaching us all to embrace life, look after each other, and have love and compassion no matter what May 14, 2014 Comedian Jason Manford, who championed Stephen's cause and helped him surpass his fundraising goal, released a statement on Wednesday afternoon: Guardian readers have also added their tributes in the comments of the article about his death, with one reflecting on the way Stephen mastered social media in order to raise money for charity and document his story.
(12) I’m sure if my father was around, if he had the opportunity to meet her he would be reminding her that compassion was important, that ethics in public life was important, and that compromise was important.
(13) Staff do not always honour the pledge on compassion in the NHS Constitution to "respond with humanity and kindness to each person's pain, distress, anxiety or need", he added.
(14) More than that, the proposition acts as a compass for Labour policy proposals ie: "How does a particular policy contribute towards work, public income and a caring society?"
(15) In a letter to the prime minister he urged Cameron to show “compassion and human kindness” .
(16) It is essential, then, in order to lessen the tendency toward neurosis, that such women be treated with compassion, competence, patience and psychiatric care, and that they be made fully aware of surgical procedures and its consequences, as well as the advantages of eugenics.
(17) It's music that defines compassion, lament, and loss, to which you can only surrender in moist-eyed wonder.
(18) But there is a difference between knowledge of other peoples and other times that is the result of understanding, compassion, careful study and analysis for their own sakes, and on the other hand knowledge that is part of an overall campaign of self-affirmation.
(19) For our government at the highest levels to suggest that when it comes to asylum seekers at sea there is no moral compass and no moral limit is not only astonishing and appalling but completely unacceptable,” he said.
(20) The norms, practices and capabilities of teams contribute to the formation of effective working relationships and determine whether there is a micro-climate that allows compassion to thrive.
Generosity
Definition:
(n.) Noble birth.
(n.) The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness.
(n.) Liberality in giving; munificence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The generosity of your readers ensures these young people have a greater chance of a positive future."
(2) During the last years of her life, Shearer wrote book reviews (not just of dance books) for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which were immensely readable though not celebrated for their generosity towards authors.
(3) The alleged killer could not imagine how the city of Charleston, under the good and wise leadership of Mayor Riley – how the state of South Carolina, how the United States of America would respond – not merely with revulsion at his evil act, but with big-hearted generosity and, more importantly, with a thoughtful introspection and self-examination that we so rarely see in public life.
(4) Reductions in the generosity of fee-for-service insurance lower the use of general medical and mental health services, but do they lead to lower mental health status for the covered population?
(5) The Centre for Policy Studies, a centre-right thinktank, said there was a huge difference between generosity, as practised by Warren Buffett, and compulsory taxation.
(6) The barrister, playwright and author Sir John Mortimer , who has died aged 85, was a man for all the seasons that touched his Chilterns garden, where he lived as profusely as he wrote, in a spirit of unjudgmental generosity.
(7) Everyone was taken aback by Harrison's generosity, not least Idle.
(8) They are thus funded or closed from season to season depending on the generosity of surrounding mines, the success of local art centres, and the sympathy of wealthy patrons.
(9) Give generosity to those who seek to form opinion and discernment to those who vote, that our nation may prosper and that with all the peoples of Europe we may work for peace and the common good; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.
(10) He said the UK legal aid system “is pretty much at the top of the tree in generosity” compared with the rest of Europe, but it was now necessary to get the multi-million pound budget under control.
(11) At least in the country we live in, there's an acceptance and a generosity and inclusiveness which has allowed us to accept alien cultures and learn from them.
(12) A dentist not so red in tooth and claw | Letters Read more WildCRU’s director, Prof David Macdonald, said the team would devote themselves to working for the conservation of lions following the “incredible generosity”.
(13) For instance, is it the greater generosity of the Swedish system--in Sweden, the share of drug reimbursement expenditures to total drug consumption is 57%, as against 33% in Norway, 38% in Finland and 34% in Denmark--that makes drug consumption per capita so much higher in Sweden?
(14) Above all, the way he responded to the brutality he had endured, his generosity towards his captors and his lack of desire for revenge against the wider white minority they had served established him as a kind of paragon.
(15) The Ned Waihopai River Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (£9.99, Waitrose ; Majestic ) There's all the pungent verdant grass-and-gooseberry of classic Kiwi sauvignon here to match with asparagus, plus the generosity of fruit and limey acidity that will work just as well with a mildly spicy and herby Vietnamese or Thai stir-fry.
(16) Their amazing generosity and hopefulness despite everything they’ve been through.
(17) If you don't turn up for work, you can be docked a day's pay – and whether you will or not largely depends on your boss's generosity.
(18) I’ve still got the blisters.” Still, that’s the virtue of a two-year campaign – during which Davis has been an unpaid, full-time candidate, who survives, as she puts it, on “debt and generosity.” It gives you time to try things.
(19) 4.15pm GMT There continues to be some controversy over the generosity of Plyushchenko’s scores.
(20) The development of higher education in Britain, and almost everywhere else, has been fundamentally driven by demands for the progressive enlargement of the educational “franchise”, responded to by the state initially with generosity but now with grudging resistance.