overkind

• “Flightplan, I was told, was lame, and, as usual, the person who delivered this judgement was breathtakingly overkind.”

  Observation #432

• “Fortune was not overkind, but his 'virtues and pious intentions may be read ... shining too gloriously to be dusked by misfortune.”

  Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts

• “Difficulties that check others fall away from him; he is smiled upon for his kindred's sake before he makes friends for his own; the world is overkind to his virtues and blind to his faults; he enters manhood indeed as "of one our conquerors"; and it will cost him some trouble to throw away his advantages.”

  England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend

• “Billy felt that Fate was overkind to him, and he lost no time in heeding her call.”

  The Mucker

• “Even that great man whose memory we love and revere, Charles Dickens, was not overkind to us, and saw our faults rather than our virtues.”

  The Crisis — Complete

• “Perhaps in her desire to secure my services for the cause she may have shown herself overkind; or perhaps I was still young enough to set down to my own charms a success due to quite different causes.”

  The Letter

• ““Master Simonides is overkind,” had ventured the athlete; “but I am sure his praise is only polite compliment.””

  A Victor of Salamis

• “He was all sympathy, all comfort, all encouragement -- if anything, too indulgent and overkind.”

  Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

• “I followed these not overkind or polite instructions and found myself in a dark, uncomfortable back-parlor.”

  Ten Days in a Mad-House

• “Difficulties that check others fall away from him; he is smiled upon for his kindred's sake before he makes friends for his own; the world is overkind to his virtues and blind to his faults; he enters manhood indeed as "one of our conquerors"; and it will cost him some trouble to throw away his advantages.”

  The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend

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