• Actually, thinking is too generous a word for what I was doing.

    FORBES: The Problem with High Expectations

  • But even that's too generous a comparison.

    FORBES: Grasso Overpaid By Any Measure

  • Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a major photographer, a pioneering gallery owner, a generous collector, a self-appointed cultural commissar and a compulsive polemicist.

    WSJ: Swimming Pool, Stieglitz and Color

  • There are two ways for a grandparent to be generous to a current college student without having a gift snatched by the college.

    FORBES: Paying for College: Help from Grandparents

  • These recent graduates were offered a generous gift in a time of great misfortune, and their response was to look at it askance.

    WSJ: Elizabeth Wurtzel: Tough Times for Big Law

  • After a drink from the modest bar, I was led to a large chamber with intricate shellfish mosaics lining the walls and a generous hearth with a fire in it.

    WSJ: Staying at Adr��re Amellal in Siwa, Egypt

  • The picture has a generous spirit and a deep appreciation of play, and it moves with a distinctive funky grace: it takes things as they come and trusts itself to handle them.

    NEWYORKER: White Men Can��t Jump

  • As Roger Cohen and John Podhoretz have written, this allowed them to offer their writers a variety of perks that are hard to come by today, including a generous salary and a light schedule that allowed them to put a lot of time and effort into each story.

    FORBES: The Hamster Wheel

  • You know, we'd like to think of ourselves as a generous country, as a diverse country, as a country in which all children have opportunity.

    NPR: Sen. Barack Obama on Poverty and Katrina

  • Just ask Marcus Brauchli, the Wall Street Journal editor whose sanctity was supposedly enshrined by an elaborate independence agreement between Rupert Murdoch and the Bancroft family, only to have Murdoch sack him, with a generous golden handshake, a few months after taking control.

    FORBES: War at AOL as Arrington and Huffington Declare Independence

  • Proton had half of the fast-growing Malaysian market, thanks both to import tariffs (as high as 350% for a Mercedes) that made the Proton cars by far the cheapest in their class, and loans so generous that a buyer could pay as little as 10% of the price of the car up front and the rest over as much as ten years.

    ECONOMIST: Malaysia��s car industry

  • It is a commonplace that generous welfare is a brake on European economic growth, leading to higher taxes and fewer jobs.

    ECONOMIST: Why is Europe growing so slowly?

  • Offering to match their funding with a gift is generous and provides a great incentive for them to plan and save for their future.

    FORBES: Fund a Teenager's Million-Dollar Retirement

  • The last time Duecy was in Tokyo, she was sticking to her rule of always being a generous American ambassador and left a couple of dollars on the table at a noodle house where she had lunch.

    FORBES: Business Basics

  • What, then, prevents Afghanistan from living happily ever after, with a generous dose of aid and a degree of international protection in the form of the International Security Assistance Force, which at present comprises about 4, 500 soldiers from 18 countries?

    ECONOMIST: At last, signs of hope

  • If you have big unreimbursed business expenses, consider asking for a generous expense account in lieu of a raise.

    FORBES: Mad Tax Party

  • Most people would use a word other than generous to describe a person who knowingly pays more taxes than what he owes.

    FORBES: I'm Okay with Mitt Romney's Income and Estate Tax Planning

  • That her father might simply have been generous with a stranger.

    NEWYORKER: Temporary

  • The money from rescinded oil and gas tax breaks would fund alternative and renewable fuel initiatives--and subsidies wouldn't be as generous in a stripped-down version of the bill.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • England, wearing their new purple second kit, went into the match as the eighth best team in the world - two places behind Argentina - and even that ranking looked generous after a match in which they struggled to show any signs of progress from last week's defeat by Australia.

    BBC: England 16-9 Argentina

  • Their relationship ended during a dispute over the terms of a deal to forge a single business out of Xstrata and Glencore, with Glasenberg annoyed that Davis joined a push for more generous terms, a demand which was met but which also turned a so-called merger of equals into a hostile takeover and the break-up of the team.

    FORBES: Mick Davis Follows Buffett's Advice By Investing In Mining When Others Are Fearful

  • Until the past decade or so, it had been accepted wisdom in the genetics community that only the tiniest percentage of the human genome contains the instructions that determine how we look, feel and act whether we (or our ancestral population group) are more likely to be grumpy or gregarious, impetuous or cautious, generous or a Grinch, a speedster or a marathoner, slow-witted or a math ace.

    FORBES: Arguing Over Junk: Scientists Attack Each Other as Media Flub 'DNA Story of the Year'

  • Hanwell Snr spent that evening away from his family, to whom he gave a little money with the generous idea of a round of fish and chips.

    NEWYORKER: Hanwell Senior

  • Brazil also has a generous land to people ratio, with a large basket of natural resources, including petroleum, for a population that is relatively small (200 million) compared to China and India.

    CNN: Does Brazil deserve its 'B' for BRIC?

  • His plan is to install these dead serfs on the tax rolls of a far-away estate, on which he will then be able to get a generous government mortgage and come away with a small fortune.

    WSJ: Surveying the Surging Immensity of Life | Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | By Joseph Epstein

  • One reason why Switzerland ranks at the top is that income taxes there are relatively low, at only 25% for Zurich and 30% for Geneva. (Switzerland's different regions, or cantons, also have varying tax rates.) While it's nice to have a generous employer, it helps to have a laid-back government too.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Leaks suggest that a generous package has been agreed, although not as generous as the one recommended last year by a royal commission that the government established to look into the subject.

    ECONOMIST: Health

  • No matter the temperature, the cake is so pretty it should be cut at the table, so bring it out on a platter and cut it into generous wedges using a serrated knife and a sawing motion.

    NPR: Recipe: Devil's Food White-Out Cake

  • Stephen Robertson, chief executive of the Big Issue Foundation, said it was "a terrifically generous act" and "a powerful statement from an artist".

    BBC: Street artist to make Big Issue sellers 'art dealers'

  • In 2010, the government offered buyers a generous rebate on their purchases, but payments stopped a few months later, and the following year the plan was abandoned.

    FORBES: Can Subsidies Get Electric Vehicles Rolling in India?

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