In his journal ("The Paris Diary and The New York Diary, 1951-1961"), Rorem wrote, "Marie-Laure is first of all a child, second an artist, third a Vicomtesse.... Fourth, she's a saint, fifth, a masochist... and sixth, a bitch.... Above all, she is generous, not to mention crazy".
She was kind and generous not only to her family but also to her many friends.
Raised in a middle-class family on the Upper West Side, successful at a relatively young age, he was generous not only to my mother, but also to her siblings, their spouses and their children.
Moreover, in keeping with her emphasis on the importance of goodwill towards others and "the benevolent universe premise," Rand's heroes are often extraordinarily (and almost always appropriately) kind and generous, not only to those they love but also to mere acquaintances, and even sometimes adversaries (Badhwar 1993b).
Yet in many ways he was generous, not least to other actors and singers, and most of all to Louis Armstrong: "He is the beginning and the end of music in America".
Serota said: "This is a rare and generous commitment, not to mention a wonderful Christmas present to the whole nation..
A Roma leader yesterday said the government had referred to his people as a problem Hungarians have been generous enough not to foist on Europe.
But those who do go will have a wide range of new choices and may also enjoy generous bargains — not to mention some much-needed down time.
While Brunetti is allowed to express his anger and disgust with a society that nurtures and protects its own worst villains, Leon is generous enough not to let this honest man succumb to despair.
The idea, says Samuel Sachs II, director of the Frick, is to expose its audience to works from museums a little off the beaten path, a generous gesture not to be sneezed at even by culturally mobile New Yorkers.
He finds refuge in ramshackle tents, pleading with generous sheikhs not to slaughter sheep for him, fearful of alerting the authorities to his presence; he picks lice out of his cloak while perched naked in a tree, before galloping away on horseback through the night to escape his pursuers once again.Following Najib's ghostly footsteps, Mr Shehadeh mourns a land lost.
