"Incredibly clever and charming, a very funny, extraordinarily kind and generous creature.
But the girl was not, today, anything like the Carla that Sylvia had been remembering, not at all the calm, bright spirit, the carefree and generous creature who had kept her company in Greece.
"We were saying to ourselves, 'Oh my God, what are we doing, are we out of our minds?' " To see the house today is to know that they were in full possession of their senses, as well as the energy and taste to transform a place with a lot of potential but not much else into a home with a clean, modern style and a generous supply of creature comfort.
Similarly, why could God not have been more generous in providing his creatures with better endowments for their survival and happiness (i.e., why is God not more of an "indulgent parent")?
This is the story of how Joan, who always appeared wholesome and generous, turned into a strange creature ready to gloat over the decay and death of her lovers - one by one.
But the ability to make genomes, coupled to a far greater understanding of how they lead to the structures of complex organisms, could one day allow simulacra of such creatures to be made by synthetic biology.In any case, though dinosaurs have left no usable DNA, other more recently departed creatures have been more generous.
With Earth Day behind us and summer around the corner, these sturdy creatures -- by turns generous, beautiful, ugly, and seductive -- give us new reason to love (and fear) plants.
And generous divers aren't the only creatures Santa encounters, of course -- check out this video of Slate as St. Nick, encountering life under the sea.
Even by the generous standards of quantum physics, kaons are weird creatures.
The novel cannot make up its mind whether this creature is an obscene freak or a lonely and generous savage with a cruelly unrequited yearning for love.
Totoro is a gentle, generous fantasy in which two country kids discover mythical forest creatures – joyous, sunny and enchanting to all ages.
