as in generous
giving or sharing in abundance and without hesitation
a bighearted guy who can't seem to ever say "no"
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Recent Examples of bighearted
But people who knew him then recall a boisterous, bighearted student at the center of Yale’s social life.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
This bighearted story of a young London veterinarian and herpetologist eager to study the isle’s endangered turtles and find her father is about the importance of discovering a sense of community and belonging.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2024
There’s a refreshing whiff of whimsy and playful originality to writer/director John Krasinski’s bighearted fantasy (★★½ out of four; rated PG; in theaters Friday), which centers on a young girl who discovers a secret world of imaginary friends (aka IFs).
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
Richie’s joyride turns last year’s re-recorded version of the original Speak Now track into a bighearted anthem for a local boy who finally makes good.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 May 2024
By Shirley Li As an actor, Dev Patel has tended to play bighearted softies in rousing crowd-pleasers.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
What began two and a half years ago as Mark’s bighearted triage in the paycheck-killing early days of the pandemic is proving itself a strategy for systemic change in Dallas County and perhaps nationwide.
—Dallas News, 22 July 2022
Here, the emotional truth is that Powell’s bighearted, raucous voice was all blog, no tradition.
—Rax King, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2022
That spirit shines through a flawed but bighearted adaptation.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 15 Dec. 2021
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
This bighearted story of a young London veterinarian and herpetologist eager to study the isle’s endangered turtles and find her father is about the importance of discovering a sense of community and belonging.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2024
There’s a refreshing whiff of whimsy and playful originality to writer/director John Krasinski’s bighearted fantasy (★★½ out of four; rated PG; in theaters Friday), which centers on a young girl who discovers a secret world of imaginary friends (aka IFs).
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
Richie’s joyride turns last year’s re-recorded version of the original Speak Now track into a bighearted anthem for a local boy who finally makes good.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 May 2024
By Shirley Li As an actor, Dev Patel has tended to play bighearted softies in rousing crowd-pleasers.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
What began two and a half years ago as Mark’s bighearted triage in the paycheck-killing early days of the pandemic is proving itself a strategy for systemic change in Dallas County and perhaps nationwide.
—Dallas News, 22 July 2022
Here, the emotional truth is that Powell’s bighearted, raucous voice was all blog, no tradition.
—Rax King, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2022
That spirit shines through a flawed but bighearted adaptation.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 15 Dec. 2021
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