How to Use openhearted in a Sentence

openhearted

adjective
  • Its emotional core, though simplistic, is just as big and openhearted.
    — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The Great North has a slightly off-kilter but mostly openhearted view of the world.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Her willingness to forgive and go with the flow might be insightful and openhearted or simply naïve.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Most have fallen short of their dreams, but the lives of these low achievers feel richer and more openhearted than the few who escaped and claimed wealth or fame.
    — Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times, 30 Apr. 2017
  • But as this verse notes, being generous and openhearted means God will also see to it that you are rewarded.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 10 June 2022
  • As this series is aimed at 5- and 6-year-olds, even the occasional heavy moment is handled with a light and openhearted touch.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Anne captures the openhearted, infectious confidence in justice that leads Gouges to refuse the offer.
    — Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Local etiquette People living in most places in Greece, including Athens, tend to be very openhearted.
    — Danai Papageorgiou, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
  • Thomas, who now lives in Philadelphia, is an author who writes books, television screenplays and openhearted comedies for live theater.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2022
  • Katzman’s openhearted playfulness is the unifying force behind his music.
    — David Hochman, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Myriad people who know him describe Smith as genuinely kind, generous and openhearted.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022
  • In conversation, Song comes across as an openhearted philosopher, happy to talk matters of the heart and the mind and grateful to have come out of the filmmaking gate with such a surge.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Fellow musicians paid attention to her supple voice and openhearted songwriting.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Meanwhile, her family is grieving, said Raymond Isaacs, who described his sister as loving and openhearted.
    — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Grooming children for a big, accepting, openhearted kind of life in which there are many worse things in the world than a little boy who grows up to do an uncanny impersonation of Cher.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • Hendricks was openhearted and charismatic, family members said.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Its openhearted appeal to viewer emotions is made on the basis of real willingness to show its characters in a light that’s imperfect, that’s un-spirational.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The space in our lives that Darrell should occupy remains an emptiness, a yawning lack that even Skye, the most openhearted of young men, can’t help undervaluing.
    — Donna Britt, Washington Post, 26 June 2020
  • Throughout the album, Lenker grasps at Big Questions with openhearted curiosity.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The openhearted ambition that New York represents feels in peril in a country where nativist beliefs are flourishing.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • His simple dignity and empathy are ballasts for a country that has been teetering between an openhearted, just future and a self-righteous, narrow-minded past.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Her brilliant work and public persona offer an openhearted invitation into what language can do to connect people—to the natural world, to one another and to themselves.
    — Amy Cannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Wilson is, as always, Anderson’s ideal vessel, openhearted and phony all at once, impossible to begrudge.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
  • Sacrificing knowledge of a partner’s appearance, the reasoning goes, is an act indicative of an openhearted and honorable spirit.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • Despite the comical extent of his cluelessness in the sport, Lasso manages to win over the hearts of the team—and those of the show's viewers—through his honesty, openhearted nature, and endearing charm.
    — Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 July 2021
  • That’s the turf Taika Waititi steps onto with his incandescently strange and openhearted black comedy Jojo Rabbit.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Situated on the fourth floor of a nondescript building in Chinatown, whose other tenants skew medical, it is run by Olivia Shao, a curator whose sharp mind and esoteric eye are consistently matched by her openhearted approach.
    — Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2021

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