Sentence examples for generous first from inspiring English sources

Serves eight to 10 as a generous first course.

This is enough to serve six as a generous first course, or as a light lunch with some crusty bread to mop up the dressing.

Which is to say, I wish Shirley Abbott hadn't set her wise, funny, generous first novel, "The Future of Love," in New York.

This generous first novel explores the aftershocks of the Vietnam War on half a dozen women and their husbands and lovers who returned from the war scarred and tormented, unable to blend back into normal civilian life.

"I remain baffled," he added, "that this court has extended the most generous First Amendment safeguards to filing lawsuits, wearing profane jackets and exhibiting drive-in movies with nudity, but has offered only tepid protection to the core speech and associated rights that our founders sought to defend".

I am keenly sensitive to the perils of censorship, and I believe that a respectable legal argument can be made that nude dancing is entitled to more generous First Amendment protection than it is receiving, but Ms. Hanna's suggestion is ridiculous.

Mark Luscombe, a lawyer and principal federal tax analyst at CCH, a tax information service, said that on 2009 returns many people were able to claim a generous first-time homebuyer's credit, but for 2010 it is generally available only to people who signed a contract before May 1 and closed before Oct. 1.

There are generous first-floor landings, open kitchen-dining areas with patio doors out to the back, energy-efficient heating systems, nothing particularly radical or unconventional.

Despite my considerable student loans and lack of cash, I thought that a mix of down-payment assistance programs, a generous first-time home buyers tax credit and an F.H.A. loan might give me the opportunity to realize an American dream that just two years previously I was sure would never be for me.

Fatigue set in by the end of the overly generous second program in the Fall for Dance festival on Saturday night at City Center.

That ambivalence is central to what A. O. Scott, writing in The New York Times, called "Sarah Polley's honest, sure-footed, emotionally generous second feature," which he chose as a critics' pick.