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- noun Something that is
heart-warming .
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Examples
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This refreshingly low-key heart-warmer works as a wonderfully entertaining fictional story.
Scott Mendelson: 2009 in Review: The Guilty Pleasures, the Surprisingly Good, and the Runners-up 2009
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With $40 million in its second weekend (up 17% from its opening stretch), the well-reviewed heart-warmer just barely crossed the $100 million mark in its tenth day of release.
Scott Mendelson: Thanksgiving Weekend Box Office Review: Sandra Bullock Blind Sides New Moon 2009
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Tuesday, the CBS Evening News ended with an heart-warmer (a guy who loves ducks.)
Jay Rosen: The Net Knows More Than You: An Open Letter to the People of CBS News 2008
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It's a real heart-warmer, and it has nothing to do with those pictures that you see on your tape there.
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Embarrassing to behold, but a heart-warmer nonetheless.
nebet Diary Entry nebet 2006
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"Hey, you swate-scented little heart-warmer!" cried Jimmy Malone, as he lifted his tenth trap, weighted with a struggling muskrat, from the
At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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It's no spoiler to say that there is a happy ending, partly because this is the kind of constantly uplifting heart-warmer in which even the villains are congenial, but also because the injured animal is played by its real-life counterpart.
CNN.com 2011
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"Anna Howard Shaw Day," while lacking in the Kenneth, Grizz, Dot Com, and Pete departments, was still a total heart-warmer.
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"Anna Howard Shaw Day," while lacking in the Kenneth, Grizz, Dot Com, and Pete departments, was still a total heart-warmer.
EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines Margaret Lyons 2010
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Make a traditional holiday supper of oyster stew or, better, haul the carcass out to see a heart-warmer like "The Road."
SFGate: Top News Stories Kimberly Chun 2010
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