"kind" in the Big Book

Best of all, I met a kind doctor who explained that though certainly selfish and foolish, I had been seriously ill, bodily and mentally.

There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.

Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of

our kind like other men.

If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.

To us it is not far-fetched, for this kind of thinking has been characteristic of every single one of us.

It was his first experience of this kind, and he was much ashamed of it.

Without knowing it, had we not been brought to where we stood by a certain kind of faith?

Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.

We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend.

He may be kind, considerate, patient, generous; even modest and self-sacrificing.

Is he not really a self-seeker even when trying to be kind?

They think we do not have enough of it, or that it isn’t the right kind.

Were we kind and loving toward all?

If this kind of approach does not catch your husband’s interest, it may be best to drop the subject, but after a friendly talk your husband will usually revive the topic himself.

Since this book was first published, A.A. has released thousands of alcoholics from asylums and hospitals of every kind.

When they become too dangerous, we think the kind thing is to lock them up, but of course a good doctor should always be consulted.

This kind of waste goes on unabated.

With this kind of employee such an attitude will command undying loyalty.

employer can many times protect the victim from this kind of talk.

The right kind of man, the kind who recovers, will not want this sort of thing.

The very practical approach to his problems, the absence of intolerance of any kind, the informality, the genuine democracy, the uncanny understanding which these people had were irresistible.