open-handedness
- a word derived from open-handed.
Example Sentences
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"There will hopefully be a blessed blend of advocacy and open-handedness with each other," she said.
From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 25, 2014
Its contemporary grooves and dancefloor ambiance might have surprised the trumpeter's jazz-rooted fans, but The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett only reflected the warmth and curiosity that had characterised the Barbadian's open-handedness from the start.
From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2010
We may speculate on what the effect of this genial open-handedness might have been, had it lasted, on the genius of the poet.
From Henrik Ibsen by Gosse, Edmund
And with his perception of this wall all that had been the romance of his existence, the casualness, the light-hearted improvidence, the miraculous open-handedness of life faded out.
From Tales of the Jazz Age by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
All the conditions and circumstances, the ability to command leisure, the very climate itself, promoted hospitality, generosity, open-handedness, and that fine spirit of lavishness that seeks at any cost to give pleasure to others.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Harris, Joel Chandler
