A lavish spender, Constantine was notoriously openhanded to his supporters and was accused of promoting beyond their deserts men of inferior social status.
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.
Approachable and openhanded, Johnson would share his knowledge generously.
But that isn't the crux of the matter; the crux of the matter is, or was, that your dreams of noble permissiveness, openhanded, free-hearted affection, contracted into a bearded, paunchy Jew who spoke Yiddish so dense you could scarce make way against it, contracted into a Slavic, snub-nosed, gentle, dear, depleted Baba, with little gold-rimmed eyeglasses, dam of a dozen offspring.
His grandfather Geisel was so doggedly openhanded a customer that young Ted compiled the second-best sales record in town.
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.
As a young man Edward had been trustful and openhanded, but his experiences made him increasingly suspicious, leading him in 1478 to execute his brother George, duke of Clarence, who in former years had sided with Warwick against him.
When you realize that full professors in the university earn about seven hundred dollars a year, you can see how openhanded I appear to be.
Mr. Howards said the gesture was an openhanded pat.
As he is bilking Indians and anyone else who crosses his path, Mr. Abramoff is also making plans to build a Hebrew school and generally spreading the wealth with an openhanded generosity.
By the time of the San Bernardino altar from Bergamo of 1521, for example, the Madonna, with an openhanded gesture, is seen to be actually addressing the titular saint, and the young angel at the foot of her throne turns away from his book and quill pen looking out at us, drawing the spectators into the picture, into the Conversation.
