Word: generous
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Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles stood behind students and faculty at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) last week, expressing his support for a proposal to create more generous financial aid packages...
...know; for example, "[Ruth] had no idea that she was not through with him." And the author sometimes overexplains: "Oh, well, Eddie thought as he got off the bus--maybe it was almost Ninety-second Street. (It was Eighty-first.)" But these are the lapses of a generous narrator intent on giving his readers not just incidents but a way of making sense of them. "The grief over lost children never dies," Irving writes near the end. His novel shows how and why that statement is true...
Sources say Fagan's next wife was a widow who received a large settlement after her husband was hit by a car. Chris Larmoyeux, a Palm Beach lawyer, said Fagan was a devoted father, a well-liked neighbor, a director of the Palm Beach Opera company and a generous man with his money. "When you look at how he's raised his daughters and how they turned out, he's done an extraordinary job," Larmoyeux says...
...answered with some variation of long-suffering, not-so-intelligent, and demure, you will be happy to know that there is a generous curve...
...Lloyd is everything we'd expect him to be: a predictably amoral executive who clings to the upper wrung of the management ladder like a sloth to a tree branch, fighting to protect his slice of generous options and to overindulge in brown liquids, Cuban smokes, aged red meat and not-so-aged women other than his wife...