On the best interpretation Powell, a man of strong imperialist sympathies, was ungenerous in treating the post-imperial human legacy with such cynical or at least selfish disregard.
There were odds being offered before play of 100-1 on an England win, which seemed particularly ungenerous even given the ease with which Stokes had played the previous evening.
Going into 2013, however, the PM's projection of himself as calm, kindly and above all pragmatic is strained by the record of a government that increasingly appears shrill, ungenerous and doctrinaire.
"I find it an ungenerous view of the world.
A mere handful of people if any fall into this category, and yet Mr Hague's protestations on their behalf are credited (along with some ungenerous remarks about asylum-seekers) with having helped the Conservatives to turn in a good performance in last month's local-government elections and notch up a modest recovery in the opinion polls.
In Poland in particular, there is a strong feeling that mean-minded West Europeans are in danger of forgetting the moral obligations they owe to the Poles, who suffered dire privations under the Nazis and during the cold war.But criticising the EU for its lack of generosity is in itself rather ungenerous.
Though ungenerous and vain, he could rarely resist an excuse to be affronted.
Higher unemployment may trigger hostility to immigrant labour, making it harder for Europe to reform its ungenerous visa and work-permit rules so as to attract foreign talent.
Its costliness is one indication of Britain's ungenerous attitude towards those who want to settle in the country for good.Becoming a citizen is a lengthy process, as it is in many places, with myriad hurdles and fees along the way.
Indeed, he hinted in a radio interview that it was jolly unsporting of the UN committee to reward the government's fulsome co-operation with it by making such ungenerous remarks about the state of race relations in Britain.In this section Comrades in arms A spy sails in from the cold Bringing rights home Being watched It could be him Blackpool as Las Vegas How dare you scold me?
Rudy Tuesday Unburning Bush ReprintsConventional wisdom has it that Mr Giuliani's biggest weakness in national politics would be his ungenerous character.
