openhandedness

"You have done well by their owner and treated the Keldara with fair openhandedness."

Mr. Forrester, 49, celebrated his win with the same openhandedness he showed in fighting for it.

But when Rebekah came, that openhandedness returned.

They are all distracted by the profusion and variety of the display, and their moral sense is confused by the general air of openhandedness.

Most Turks appear to have retained a hierarchy of values in which pleasure, tranquillity, respect, openhandedness and family loyalty are at least as prominent as money or career.

As the Steward left, Lord Gast took up a tale, whose matter Taran found difficult to follow, concerning the costliness of his food and his openhandedness toward travelers.

He seems aware, as Amy says of another character, that he is entering his "final years," as biographers call it - "a period of 'mature' acceptance, reconciliation, openhandedness, general amnesty."

Known as the potlatch feast, it was an occasion on which some of the more affluent members of the tribe went so far as to bankrupt themselves in order to demonstrate the extent of their openhandedness.

Apart from your freakish half-Arabian sweetheart, for whom you have now, thanks to the openhandedness of this good Khazar, found adequate replacement, I see nothing that we stand to gain from the pursuit of that boy."

She is profligate with plot and detail, and her openhandedness and the inherent tensions of her large story should insure that most readers will overlook her equally spacious faults, including the banality of her asides.

A product of the immigrant-Jewish New Jersey he remembers in "An Alphabet of My Dead," he gives voice to the first- or second-generation citizen's astonished reverence for America: its size, its variety, its openhandedness.

So for three years in the fifties they'd shipped him off to friends in New York, rich Jews, old family of East Side liberals, who'd introduced him, with grace and openhandedness, to a charmed East 82nd Street life.

Rightly or wrongly, human nature being what it is, these donors often believe that they have a right to expect some special consideration for their sons and daughters as a reward for their openhandedness and the assistance their contributions make to other students.

Tonight's historians remind us that Washington's openhandedness was prompted in part by unease lest the return of so many battle-toughened veterans without futures be accompanied by political volatility; memories of the fascist and Communist movements that came out of World War I were still disturbingly fresh.

In recent books like "Ravelstein" (2000) and "The Actual" (1997), an awareness of mortality, that perennial preoccupation of the Bellovian hero, also moved to the forefront, an awareness, as the years scroll by, that one is entering the final stretch, "a period of 'mature' acceptance, reconciliation, openhandedness, general amnesty."