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  • noun Alternative spelling of heart-warmer.

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Examples

  • I get a lot of "stuff" forwarded to me -- news, stories, jokes and I think this is the first "heartwarmer" -- a story that warms the heart -- that I'm putting in my blog.

    OpEdNews - Diary: A Heartwarming Story 2004

  • I get a lot of "stuff" forwarded to me -- news, stories, jokes and I think this is the first "heartwarmer" -- a story that warms the heart -- that I'm putting in my blog.

    Printing: A Heartwarming Story 2004

  • Here is an amiable, good-natured heartwarmer of a documentary, accessible to cricket fans and non-fans alike.

    Out of the Ashes – review Peter Bradshaw 2010

  • In the franchise's latest heartwarmer, White plays Caroline, a woman telling her bittersweet WWII love story to TV reporter Jennifer Love Hewitt.

    Matt's Weekend Picks: January 28-30 2011

  • Besides the supernatural stuff and Supernatural itself, the last surviving WB holdover, the other WB format I yearn for each season is the young-adult heartwarmer, which reached its apex with Felicity and Everwood.

    Critic's Notebook: The CW Upfront 2011

  • The venerable Hallmark Hall of Fame TV-movie franchise moves to a new network, ABC, with Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith 9/8c, starring Bradley Whitford as columnist/author Albom, who describes this heartwarmer as "a story about believing in something, and the two very different men who taught me how."

    Beyond the Turkey: Critic's Guide to Thanksgiving Week TV 2011

  • Superior Donuts, instead, is a fairly straightforward heartwarmer — a pleasant, entertaining, funny one — peopled by stock characters.

    Hamlet Saves Hamlet 2009

  • Superior Donuts, instead, is a fairly straightforward heartwarmer — a pleasant, entertaining, funny one — peopled by stock characters.

    Hamlet Saves Hamlet 2009

  • Following two weekends of playing second-fiddle to New Moon, the Sandra Bullock heartwarmer capitalized on weak openers and a steadily crashing Twilight sequel to earn $20 million in its third weekend.

    Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Weekend Box Office in Review: Blind Side Finally Takes the Top Spot 2009

  • The heartwarmer (winner of both the Audience and Filmmakers awards) was "Something Within Me," which takes us inside St. Augustine's School of the Arts in the south Bronx, where dedicated teachers and turned-on students flourish against the brutal odds of inner-city life by making music.

    The Talent Bazaar 2008

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