Example sentences for: well-meaning

How can you use “well-meaning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hereditary monarchies once provided a few well-meaning rulers.

  • Consider, for instance, the now-standard formulation that if blacks would only surrender their race-consciousness, we could all ascend to a colorblind nirvana . You hear this line from plenty of well-meaning whites.

  • Life in Hell hits us where we live: under the thumb of well-meaning, rational, but ultimately psychotic and abusive authority.

  • Frantz (full disclosure here, I correspond with him) and Collins tend to be earnest and well-meaning, hence sometimes a tad pompous.

  • I cringe when I think of the hunger there must've been among African-American actors for what will end up being the highest profile part for a black man this year: the John Coffey role in The Green Mile . Michael Duncan Clarke handles the role with all the dignity he can muster, and it's undeniably a well-meaning movie.


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