Sentence examples for generous gestures from inspiring English sources

IN other families, the change in status is so deeply dividing that siblings repudiate generous gestures with stiff-necked pride.

Previously when the left came to power, it made generous gestures towards the electorate then tightened the screw later.

Generous gestures, when she attempts them, seem to swipe through the lives of others like a random bear paw, often making matters worse.

Forgive me, after a while, for wondering if these are more than the generous gestures of friends seeking to share the pleasures of the country.

Given to such un-self-consciously generous gestures, Sacks would seem to be the ideal doctor: observant but accepting, thorough but tender, training his full attention on one patient at a time.

Seemingly generous gestures, such as the donation to "good causes" of £57 million by Shell and £50 million by BP in 2004, for example, are seen as postgame philanthropic strategies aimed at sanitizing the companies' reputations as industrial polluters.

Terry Crews made an incredibly generous gesture this year by allowing the general public to use his muscles to control a virtual drum kit.

In a statement issued yesterday, WHO Director General Margaret Chan welcomed the donation, calling it a "sizeable and generous gesture".

That generous gesture presents a problem.

His resignation, he said, was "a generous gesture".

There is little appetite among politicians for a generous gesture.