The phrase "generous intent" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a kind or benevolent purpose or motive behind someone's actions or words. Example: Despite his harsh words, I could sense the generous intent behind his criticism as he genuinely wanted to help me improve.
There'd been no generous intent in the giving of the money, no honorable guilt had inspired the gesture, no charitable motive.
The most meaningful conversations take place when people are fully present, without distraction and with a generous intent to listen and accept what is heard.
We use six independent variables to code for "stingy" outcome (β1), "generous" outcome (β2), "stingy" intent (β3), "generous" intent (β4), the interaction between stingy outcome and stingy intent (β5), and an interaction between generous outcome and generous intent (β6).
This method of data collection, known as the strategy method, greatly increased our statistical power and afforded the necessary sample size of responses to low-probability events (e.g., generous intent paired with a stingy outcome).
There was a significant effect of selfish intention (β3 = −1.85, t = −3.25, p<0.01), but no significant effect of generous intention (β4 = 0.75, t = 1.02, p = 0.31), and a marginally significant interaction between stingy intent and stingy outcome (β5 = −3.03, t = −1.91, p = 0.059) but no significant interaction between generous intention and generous outcome (β6 = −0.39, t = −0.29, p = 0.77).
It's easy to be mindful, present and generous of intent, in the privacy of your thoughts.
The rich donors who made up the Koch network, Fink said, needed to persuade moderate, undecided voters that their intent was generous.
Of the lesser known writers on the long list, let me single out Sinclair Lewis, the American novelist, less appreciated now than in his lifetime — but his "Babbitt" and " Main Street" are wonderful books, at once satiric in intent and generous in accomplishment.
Whether the current Supreme Court would accept this generous gloss on the discriminatory intent standard — a "motivating factor" but not the only factor — is, I think, an open question.
Poland seems to be moving most forcefully toward capitalism, while Czechoslovakia seems intent on maintaining generous social protection and Government involvement in industry.
We included the three significant regressors from the analysis of the trembling hand data (stingy vs. fair outcome, generous vs. fair outcome, and stingy vs. fair intent).
