Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing gladness and tender feelings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective causing gladness and pleasure; -- used mostly of the actions of people, and sometimes of animals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing gladness and pleasure
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Examples
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KAGAN: And here's what you might call a heartwarming Y2K story.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Population - January 2, 2000 2000
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To never again see the word "heartwarming" describe the book THE HELP.
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We have established a kind of heartwarming intimacy with people we've never met that can only come through the author-reader relationship, and, their emails have frequently moved me beyond words.
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This is the premise for a bizarrely funny road trip in the family station wagon from Long Island to Manhattan, where she will get all kinds of advice – although not the kind of heartwarming stuff one would normally associate with a Thanksgiving movie.
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WERDE: But as I've seen this footage, he clearly seemed able to perform and he seemed spot on with his dance moves and the choreography, it was kind of heartwarming, too.
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Ugh. We did see sob stories and train wrecks and clueless folk but I don't care about these "heartwarming" stories.
Michael Giltz: American Idol -- San Fran and Louisville 2009
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They dont make good books, no, but most of those stories have been made into 'heartwarming' film scripts.
No, no, please don't write Ms Robinson 2008
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I must admit that I picked up The Santa Letters with trepidation, prepared to trudge through something "heartwarming," "uplifting," and be force fed dripping sentimentality.
Book Review: The Santa Letters by Stacy Gooch Anderson Jaime Theler 2008
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Lyon, 83, said it was "heartwarming" that the city wants her and Martin, 87, to be the first couple to marry, but she said they are just a small part of what will happen as same-sex marriage begins in California.
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon To Marry Legally Mon June 16 Ron Buckmire 2008
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I was perusing a magazine listing the films that were available to watch on the box this week and I was amazed at just how many films were described in those terms... 'heartwarming'.
No, no, please don't write Ms Robinson 2008
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