Sentence examples for characteristic generosity from inspiring English sources

And every year, the British public respond with characteristic generosity.

With characteristic generosity, he pointed out that his imminent retirement would make me the senior professor.

With characteristic generosity, van Gogh discerned rare dignity in Gauguin's villainous persona.

She shared her unrivalled knowledge of St Ives's artistic heritage with characteristic generosity and was modest about her achievements; perhaps too modest, sometimes.

Some members of his own party found this advocacy embarrassing but, when Nigerian reconciliation proved him right, he showed characteristic generosity.

In a self-critical letter that she wrote to a friend who had praised one of her gardening columns a piece that frowned on certain schools of flower arranging Katharine conveyed this, and also managed to tip her hat, with characteristic generosity, to one of her writers.

The impressionist lucidity of Ms. Schneider's big-band scores was muted, understandably; still, her characteristic melodic generosity and rhythmic ingenuity came through.

The true story of St. Nicholas can be helpful in explaining Santa's characteristics of generosity and anonymity.

In his homily, Nichols paid lavish tribute to Williams's "characteristic insight, and generosity of heart and spirit".

It is characteristic of Sacks' generosity to his patients that he allows only himself to be seen in this light.

Written in the wake of his stroke a few years back, it deals with characteristic authority and generosity with the largest of themes: friendship, love, life and death.