What is "compassionate"

Usage examples of "compassionate".

The Lady Beata, winding compassionate arms around her friend, had raised her veil, whispering words of tenderness.

All three, with the Dalai Lamas, their successors, were subsequently held to incarnate the compassionate saviour god and Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, who was also the traditional patron deity of Tibet.

In her clear and compassionate voice, she reminded all the assembled Architects of their duty toward God, as well as their dream of a future in which the universe would be remade and all worthy men and women redeemed from the black and bottomless deeps of time.

The compassionate love which he drags around all his life like a weight, will get the better even of his donjuanesque quest, which, before being a quest for female bodies, is a quest for knowledge.

Frank Jackson gave her a compassionate discharge when she married Sterling Pridmore and the blessed event turned out to be twins, rather than accommodate the babies in the Erfurt Supply Depot, although Amber Lee was quite willing to soldier on.

In fact, human society in pretechnological times was much more like that of the compassionate, communal and cultured Bushman hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert than the Fuegians Darwin, with some justification, derided.

Charlie Harris was a shrewd street-seller whose appearance and demeanour tugged at the heartstrings of the compassionate.

Maitreya, the Buddha of Future Times, proclaiming the eternal happiness of the village children, for they were all to be reborn in Sukhavati, the Pure Land of Amida, the Buddha of Compassionate Light.

Helen knew well enough, now, the meaning of the sadness which had left such traces in his features and tones, and it made her feel very kindly and compassionate towards him.

Markus and I were both aware that it was in his professional capacity that he was standing there at the gate of Brenntau Cemetery, waiting with slavering mouth, compassionate gloves, and watery blue eyes for the mourners to come out.

George was of a compassionate disposition, and notwithstanding a small breach of friendship which he had been over-tempted to commit, was, in the main, not insensible of the obligations he had formerly received from Mr.

He was brimful of wit and the milk of human kindness, compassionate for the weaknesses of others, and devoted to youth, no matter of what sex, but he knew well the virtue of moderation, and used all things without abusing them.

For, in contrast to the Buddha, who at the conclusion of his lifetime of teaching passed away, never to return, this infinitely compassionate one, who renounced for himself eternal release to remain forever in this vortex of rebirths, represents through all time the mystery of a knowledge of eternal release while living.

The game's played with stars, and it's nothing less than the transformation of the universea gathering of all the inhabited stars under a wise and compassionate Caliph who will outshine the splendors of previous caliphs as a sun outshines a moon.

The reader may perhaps expect, from the compassionate temper of this good woman, that when she saw the poor centinel taken prisoner for a fact of which she knew him innocent, she should immediately have interposed in his behalf.