Sentence examples for openhandedness from inspiring English sources

Titus (ruled 79 81) had a brief reign, marred by disasters (the volcanic eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum and another great fire in Rome); but his attempts to alleviate the suffering and his general openhandedness won him such popularity that he was unhesitatingly deified after his early death.

Not for the first time, I was struck by the openhandedness of lay Catholics — a generosity that contrasted sharply with the stinginess of their spiritual masters within the undemocratic structure of the Church.

Not for the first time, I was struck by the openhandedness of lay Catholics—a generosity that contrasted sharply with the stinginess of their spiritual masters within the undemocratic structure of the Church.

Balancing that, making the event feel like a lovely escape from reality, was the wonderfulness of the house itself, and the openhandedness with which it was run.

Most Turks appear to have retained a hierarchy of values in which pleasure, tranquillity, respect, openhandedness and family loyalty are at least as prominent as money or career.

Begun in 1993 as PradaMilanoarte, the foundation is, like Prada's clothes, something of a fixation in the art world, with a high-end reputation for perspicacity and openhandedness.

A product of the immigrant-Jewish New Jersey he remembers in "An Alphabet of My Dead," he gives voice to the first- or second-generation citizen's astonished reverence for America: its size, its variety, its openhandedness.

Mr. Forrester, 49, celebrated his win with the same openhandedness he showed in fighting for it.