A sudden spate of opportunities in stage plays filled him with heartening optimism. These gestures friendship and a heartening promise. An undeserved defeat, but a heartening display gave the game some credibility from Saints' perspective. The song's theme was considered "heartening" and a "crucial" culpability. He gives her a heartening look. The influence of the SVM across the country is not heartening. The Cantonese section was considered "more heartening". With his head barely above water, Grissom found the sight of Cox heartening.