Word: compassionate
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This crisis of homelessness persists in part because of institutional inertia and widespread "compassion fatigue." We're becoming increasingly resistant to appeals for charity. It's been "widely acknowledged that the "crusade for the public conscience has been lost."
"For first-time offenders, we will provide thedrug and alcohol treatment they desperately need,"he said. "But there is a limit to out compassion."
Jones' Olive come closest to this idea, with a tough sexiness that doesn't preclude her from admitting to loneliness, to vulnerability. Jones doesn't settle for turning Olive into a sterotype. Instead, Jones infuses Simon's creation, a hard-nosed sports reporter, with streaks of warmth and compassion, making...
Bernardin struggles to be spirit and not flesh as he reflects on the case, saying he passed as swiftly as possible from "Why me?" and anger to compassion. His worst moment ("embarrassing and humiliating," he says) may have been when he was asked on camera whether he was sexually active...
But in a new book, he manages to override the Roman model. Bennett suggests a superior truth about the American character: Americans do not care so much about differences in culture or even in color (despite much rancid history under that heading) as they care about character as it is...