Sentence examples for is openhanded from inspiring English sources

In exchange for their turning a blind eye to the lack of representative government and human rights abuses, Colonel Qaddafi is openhanded in distributing Libya's oil proceeds, sometimes as direct gifts to influential people and tribal leaders, but also in the form of state-financed health care, huge urban development projects and universal free education.

Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.

In fact, Deuteronomy 15:11 goes on to exhort the more fortunate to always be openhanded toward the poor and the needy.

However, there is more to that passage -- something they conveniently leave out all the time: "Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land".

Be openhanded with salt and butter but stingy with milk, which will flatten out the bright, earthy potato taste.

When we like a person, we say, "She has an open face". About a friendly gesture, we remark, "That was openhanded". About ourselves when young, we might sigh, "I was open to new experiences". Openness is attractive.

A lavish spender, Constantine was notoriously openhanded to his supporters and was accused of promoting beyond their deserts men of inferior social status.

This complex is an openhanded celebration of culture and traditional craftsmanship, with numberless design decisions mostly carried off in handsome fashion: Not the least of the astonishments in this pleasure dome is that in many respects it is so astonishingly beautiful.

His grandfather Geisel was so doggedly openhanded a customer that young Ted compiled the second-best sales record in town.

Documents in the tax case described Mr. Sherman as an inveterate spender, one who friends and family said in letters of support could be all too openhanded with gifts.

Wealthy member nations like West Germany and Japan have been less than openhanded with foreign aid.