It is good to spend an evening with a sensibility so markedly generous, and whose sense of the ridiculous prevents him from ever being sentimental.
Doonesbury conveyed that truth to many of us students not by preaching or declaiming or insinuating but, as in all great cartooning, by nourishing a critical, generous sensibility with unspoken irony and humor, in images conveying social understandings that can't be legislated or propounded.
This young woman's name is Stella Silver, and she is perhaps the most central among the novel's generous array of sensibilities and an apparent stand-in for the author, who grew up in Birmingham during its years of strife.
Thinking he would rid the plate of the meat so not to offend my vegetarian sensibilities, the Englishman spread a generous dollop of the soft grayish substance on a slice of bread and took a large bite.
John Collins, the director of "Gatz," who says he has listened to the novel read more than 200 times, was generous about the "contemporary sensibilities" of the latest iteration, even big changes like having the narrator, Nick Carraway, end up in a sanitarium because of his "morbid alcoholism".
Like the Latin Grammys, "4 Guys" is careful to present a generous spirit of inclusiveness, a sensibility at which it manages to poke gentle fun before the evening's end.
Although the broadside ballad represents the adaptation of the folk ballad to the urban scene and middle class sensibilities, the general style more closely resembles minstrelsy, only with a generous admixture of vulgarized traits borrowed from book poetry.
"Soft Sift" contains only 30 poems, yet it offers a generous amount of Ford's fancifully limber sensibility.
So the three of us worked on the script, and they were very generous in letting me push it further toward my sensibilities as a director.
Well, "sung" may be generous: White is more of a murmurer, reinforcing Big Inner's intimate, lips-to-ear sensibility.
