Sentence examples for generous gift giving from inspiring English sources

The world of their nobles is vividly evoked in poems like Beowulf, probably transcribed long after they became familiar as fireside recitations, of summer warfare and winter feasting in the beer hall, where generous gift giving was as important as wealth.

You may find yourself chanting this mantra as you total up receipts and strive to get back on track after a season of generous gift giving.

Other stats show that just under half of us have less than $800 in savings – not exactly the sort of balance that encourages people to go out and underwrite their friends' weddings costs via generous gift-giving.

A joint study I released in December with Weber Shandwick and KRC Research revealed that these 23 million women not only give generous gifts to their nieces, nephews and godchildren -- 52% admit to spoiling the children in their life -- almost as many (45%) have given gifts to parents to help them provide for their kids.

Click through the slideshow below to read inspiring stories of Secret Santas who gave generous gifts anonymously.

Generous gifts could leave less for inheritances.

Saudi Arabia, which has given extremely generous gifts to the Clinton Foundation, has a record on human rights -- particularly women's rights -- which is not exactly stellar.

"The best part about it is I can give great big generous gifts to my [three] kids and [four] grandkids," she says.

When I returned to the office after a short vacation, they gave us some very generous gifts from our registry.

But if your best friend bought the same outfit at an auction as a "vintage" piece, that could be seen as a generous example of gift-giving.

That nonchalance was reflected in random interviews with New Yorkers, some of whom half-joked that they hoped the mayor would be more generous in his gift-giving, and offered their own suggestions about what they would do if their net worth doubled.