His background definitely encouraged a generous nature, but it didn't guarantee it - plenty of people have nice parents.
Gielgud, a generous nature, admired Olivier and lauded him, saying, at worst, "Rather a cold man, but he writes very good letters".
Blessed with a generous nature and good sense of humour, Pete was never happier than when having a drink with friends.
"It works very well," he said, adding that he had learned Mr. Thompson's strengths and weaknesses, including a generous nature, a short fuse and terrible business acumen.
If, despite having worked with smoke in his eyes for many years, he is of a generous nature, as the carvers at Mueller's are known to be, he might slice off a piece of a brisket's darkened outside — what would be called in Kansas City a burnt end — and, before you've ordered anything, place it on your tray as a small gesture.
In "Manhood for Amateurs," Mr. Chabon writes of his wife: "She has a big mouth, a rash heart, a generous nature (always a liability, in my view), and if my way is always to opt out, to sit in the window seat with a book in my lap, pressing my face against the pane, then her great weakness, indistinguishable from her great strength, is a fatal, manic aptitude for saying yes".
But for those of us of a less generous nature, which is frankly most of us, there's a lot of schadenfreude about that.
A man of the highest integrity and who, through expert knowledge and great experience, an affable and generous nature and an ability to get on with people from all walks of life and political persuasions, made himself indispensable as a veterinary adviser to the UK Parliament.
His obituarist in The Times described him as "a man of large and generous nature, a delightful companion and conversationalist".
He was … a man of generous nature and warm impulses.
This sloppily edited epic of tittle-tattle will do little to embellish Gielgud's reputation, but it does - despite the spasms of high-pitched bitching - testify to a sweet and generous nature.
