Sentence examples for far from generous from inspiring English sources

Especially because their pensions, unlike those of corporate chieftains, are far from generous.

Military pay is far from generous, and the benefits are comprehensive but hardly gold-plated or easy to navigate.

I knew that huge areas of the city centre had been bulldozed, but I had not understood that this relentless tide of construction had doubled the living space, which is still far from generous, of its most crowded inhabitants.

Rangers are far from generous opponents when ahead in any game but the SPL leaders failed to put the tie out of St Johnstone's reach 20 minutes from time.

Those were far from generous odds, given his preparation: last weekend's Scottish Open at Castle Stuart had been his first tournament since the US Open and he freely admitted that he needed to "try to get some rust off my game".

It was this group that evolved into the Théâtre du Soleil, founded as a cooperative in the summer of 1964, with each member contributing 900 Francs (salaries are still more or less equal across the company, and far from generous: €1,400 a month for new arrivals, €1,800 for long-term members, including Mnouchkine herself).

They will be a far-from-generous £33 better off.

Far from being too generous to players, Tellem said the 1999 deal (which was renewed with minor changes in 2005) had been financially punitive.

"It's been clear over the last few months that far from being the generous paternal employer it once was, the BBC is turning into that perennial Christmas favourite Scrooge," writes Julie Clayton of BBC Radio Cumbria to the corporation's in-house mag, Ariel.

"Parenting is no sport for perfectionists," Andrew Solomon rather gloriously understates toward the end of "Far From the Tree," a generous, humane and — in complex and unexpected ways — compassionate book about what it means to be a parent.

At Dia:Beacon Mr. Tàpies's works are installed in three successive rooms — a terrific display, though I couldn't help but think it would have benefited from a far more generous space.