Sentence examples for ungenerous with from inspiring English sources

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He notes that the power of the farm lobby means that the trade agreements with developing countries in Latin America are "ungenerous" with little scope for concessions.

Ellis Kohs, a Piston student, was represented by his stylish Sonatina for Violin and Piano, a 1948 work that Stravinsky urged his concertizing partner, the violinist Samuel Dushkin, to commission: proof that Stravinsky was not ungenerous with his influence.

Before their 1939 marriage, he had her sign a prenuptial agreement and, in later years, he became increasingly ungenerous with her.

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Other roles come to life thanks to actors going at them with vim or, in the case of Lindsay Duncan as a murderously ungenerous critic, with glacial poise.

In giving us a penetrating -- but not entirely merciless -- picture of this complex man, Begley succeeds in unsettling some of our complacencies, and illuminating the straitened and ungenerous perspective with which we frequently approach the world around us.

The international response to Pakistan's flood emergency has been sluggish and ungenerous compared with relief efforts after previous disasters, a leading aid agency said today as the UN warned that its emergency workers were in danger of being overwhelmed by the scale of the crisis.

Those who have dealt with him limn an unnervingly Nixonian persona: A man who is disingenuous, disloyal, isolated, calculating, ungenerous, uncomfortable with others and pathologically suspicious.

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.

Greta remains perilously close to the surface, and engenders in us the rather ungenerous feeling that, with this woman at least, the author has lost his nerve.

The store also offers a wooden drawer-style advent calendar (again with ungenerous small chocolates) which, although very pretty, is overpriced at £45. ★★★ 162g, £5.99 Nice, big and fun with preview windows that whet the appetite.

A single paragraph from E. B. White is ungenerous; Art Buchwald's interview with Vernon Duke about his song "April in Paris" is inane, and M. F. K. Fisher's observation that "Paris was too full of people we knew" isn't much better.

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