Word: generously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dean Nathans is a wonderful mentor, a dedicated and committed administrator, and a creative innovator who has never lost sight of the virtues of Harvard’s traditions. Most importantly, she is a warm and generous human being...
...half the voters or, at least, five out of nine Supreme Court Justices. That rankles our American souls. We should be satisfied! We should be catered to! We specifically asked for the vinaigrette on the side! And so the losers grow more aggrieved in defeat and the winners less generous in victory. What is it, after all, that most aggravates Democrats about President Bush? That he campaigned as a centrist but led from the right; he lost the popular vote but governed as though he had won in a landslide. And why shouldn't he? In iPod America, every citizen...
...What sustains the reader's interest is Ong's rich use of language, which at its best reflects "the pell-mell, absurd, bountiful, magical nature of the Philippines," in Ong's generous phrase. Yet if this gifted writer is to realize his potential as a novelist-bard for the Philippines, his vision needs to be tempered by a stringent course of narrative basics...
...says, adding that few local children attend the school. "Those strange-looking trousers, the robes and the beards say it all," Kasmawati says. But she continues, "I know they're different, but we leave them alone and don't disturb them. We're all Muslims." Headmaster Zakaria is less generous, and says his most important job?and the mission with which he charges his students?is to convert other Indonesians to his views. Those who don't agree with his strict interpretation of Islam, he says, are "slow to understand the Koran" or "just stupid." So far, Zakaria...
...home again. Concludes McCrum, literary editor of Britain's The Observer: "The Second World War finished Wodehouse." Not quite. He found a new home and, eventually, even greater fame after the war. As McCrum also notes, Wodehouse was every inch the Edwardian: calm in a crisis, aloof but generous (he supported an old school chum for years), quietly productive (he could pound out a novel's first draft in days), and fit as an oak (thanks to daily calisthenics). Many of those qualities can be traced to Wodehouse's Woosterish upbringing. A descendant of Norfolk nobility, including a sister...