quick-hearted
adj1
Easily induced to feel emotion.
- To these impulsive, quick-hearted children of the sun, impressions on their swift and delicate sense were interesting and absorbing chiefly as feeling, pleasant, painful or neutral.1912, Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids, Buddhism: A Study of the Buddhist Norm, page 65:
- It is no stretch of the imagination to suppose the Carnival, with the vivacity that here is known but as a traveller's tale of the quick-hearted Italian, the ubiquitous life, the perpetual motion, the sunshine all through and through one's feelings, and one's thoughts and its reflection on our actions, and our influence on others; […]2003, John Michael Cooper, Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony, page 218: