Sentence examples for generous idea from inspiring English sources

It was a generous idea gone awry and served too late.

Those sensual Italians had a more abundant and generous idea of beauty.

Mr. Pataki may wish to hold onto this generous idea until he sees how much the private sector can do.

Hanwell Snr spent that evening away from his family, to whom he gave a little money with the generous idea of a round of fish and chips.

Our Amtrak system is notoriously scuffed and inefficient, but it still gives an American wanderer a generous idea of the country's variety, prosperity, and desolation.

Maybe these sentiments wouldn't strike a chord in Ukraine or Liberia or the territories under the control of the Islamic State, but there's a moving, warming, generous idea here — that by taking loving care when we purchase summer corn, heirloom tomatoes, organically fed and outdoor-reared chicken, we're doing something that's charged with political significance.

Mr. Bizot responded that Duch's "pure and generous" ideas frightened him.

He orders clams Posilipo and the waiter brings him calf's liver, or a small steak and the waiter brings him a large one — which my friend, a hearty eater, devours rapturously, congratulating himself on having found a restaurant with such generous ideas of smallness.

In the end, as a diehard fan of Lafayette (and proud of it!), I hope the idealistic and generous ideas of the 18th century can remain a source of inspiration.

Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justice Breyer as well as Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, read the first amendment as a guarantee of "religious equality...the breathtakingly generous constitutional idea that our public institutions belong no less to the Buddhist or Hindu than to the Methodist or Episcopalian".

And as a culture, I feel like when we create good reasons to be greedy, and those reasons are: Hey, this person's going to go buy a beer - so better greedy than generous....That idea doesn't just stay in that one place.