How To Use Largess In A Sentence

That largesse extends to shareholders, who will receive a 25p special dividend. Times, Sunday Times
While knowing total expenditures in lobbying is good I would like to see some breakdown as to where all of that money is going, to see exactly whose pockets are filling as a result of the largess being spread around. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » $3.47 billion spent. Did you get a pony?
Can no longer function except to distribute billions of taxpayer largesse to politically connected corporations?
Ahmad the Abortion had made known the place, Ali laid hold of him and would have taken the dinar from him, but could not; so he said to him, Go: thou deservest largesse for thou art a sharp fellow, whole of wit and stout of heart. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
At a minimum, we wonder why the SEC didn't insist that Mr. Mozilo cooperate in naming the politicians and others in government or at Fannie and Freddie who benefited from Countrywide's mortgage largesse. Angelo's Ashes

Of course, such largesse comes at a price. Times, Sunday Times
He wasn't an alcoholic, but he liked to play hard, and be the dispenser of largesse.
There are bagmen who continue to dole out largesse, including brown bags of cash to certain helpful officials at Christmas time.
If they dispense largesse for any other reason, they are literally wasting the money of their shareholders.
The least these rural receivers of public largesse can do is let the great unwashed walk across their fields. Times, Sunday Times
Their largesse extends beyond their own fans. Times, Sunday Times
But the rather malleable populace here seems to be quite pleased at this governmental largesse.
Members of Congress are appalled by the prospect of taxpayer funds going to companies lavishing such undeserved largess on such a group of demonstrated failures.
He was a gay, mad young dog, grandly careless of his largess, fearless as a lion's whelp, lithe and beautiful as a leopard, and mad, a trifle mad of the deviltries and whimsies that tickled in that fine brain of his. CHAPTER XIII
Philanthropy often has merely abstract rewards for the giver: that warm empathetic feeling; an assuagement of theoretical guilt; perhaps even an aggrandized sense of self, as the largesse is doled out. Billionaire Soros To Help Fight Urban Drug Abuse
This largesse is heaped upon them by the car company PRs in the hope of keeping the journos on side and writing nice things.
Where does the FIH get money to distribute such largesse?
“I did,” Donatra said, her expression hardening, “but my largesse was rebuffed.” Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
And you may be glad to oblige; it's very satisfying to dispense largesse. Times, Sunday Times
Beneficiaries of her largesse have included the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Thou shalt be generous, and give largesse to everyone.
This is largesse the country cannot afford. Times, Sunday Times
This bigness of heart, this largesse of the soul, is a characteristic of hers that has been remarked on frequently, though in all honesty I must say I have never experienced it firsthand.
The least these rural receivers of public largesse can do is let the great unwashed walk across their fields. Times, Sunday Times
He was quite happy, in fact, to rely upon US training and largesse less than twenty years ago.
Politicians are elected, power is wielded, contracts are awarded, and government largess is handed out on the basis of tribal affiliations.
Of course, I had never seen a weighted, jangling, belly-swollen giant flop down a chimney and gaily dispense his largesse under a Christmas tree.
Be sure to call it "largess" if he scatters it among them. How to Write a Novel for the Masses
We have managed the Government's finances so well that he has opined that the low debt is crazy, and that National would borrow to dispense largesse to some of its mates.
We are able to perceive a tone of gratitude and thankfulness for Carver's willingness to share his scientific largesse with the surrounding community.
In addition, he possessed of himself all the natural attributes of chiefship: the gigantic stature, the fearlessness, the pride; and the high hot temper that could brook no impudence nor insult, that could be neither bullied nor awed by any utmost magnificence of power that walked on two legs, and that could compel service of lesser humans, not by any ignoble purchase by bargaining, but by an unspoken but expected condescending of largesse. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
So wouldn't it be better to live in Scotland and benefit from such largesse rather than live in England and have to pay for it?
It counts on the largesse of the largest financial pockets in the city, both private and corporate.
So the developing countries, the main beneficiaries of US largesse, are digging in against other UN reforms unless they get the extra cash.
Martin dispensed royal largess, inviting everybody up, farm-hands, a stableman, and the gardener's assistant from the hotel, the barkeeper, and the furtive hobo who slid in like a shadow and like a shadow hovered at the end of the bar. Chapter 17
But he who has naught can dispense the world in largess; and I, who had naught, gave Kim captaincy of the palace guards. Chapter 15
He is in trouble again for sharing his largesse with two young paramours that he claimed to have ditched in favor of his wife and four kids.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasure. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » On Class Warfare and Income Taxes, Part 1
The image reinforces the notion of them as twin spoilsmen, nourishing themselves on government largesse.
So the developing countries, the main beneficiaries of US largesse, are digging in against other UN reforms unless they get the extra cash.
Theatre, music, dance, the visual arts - all would benefit from this largesse.
The big unanswered question: who benefits from largesse - interest groups or the common voter?
Is the largesse just an excess of bad taste? Times, Sunday Times
This is largesse the country cannot afford. Times, Sunday Times
As always, on the first day of the new year we visited the ancient local shrine at the foot of the mountain, which visit usually seems to yield sufficient deific largesse for the following year.
However, in the right gear and the right corner, you can bring the rear end around with the car's largess of pushrod torque 420 pound-feet at 4,600 rpm. A Genuine Ragtop Road Monster, Leaks and All
But a select group of eight York bigwigs have selflessly enjoyed Buckingham Palace largesse on our behalf.
It is a youth who dares be radical, who dares, in splendid largess, build mistake upon mistake, bleeding his life out in service. The Kempton-Wace Letters
It describes at some length and in jolly detail (as do the various links from it, which are also worth following) the ways in which those massive cyber success stories YouTube and Twitter are believed to be losing money hand over fist, currently surviving only on the largesse of venture capitalists and Google (which recently bought YouTube despite it being loss-making). P2pnet World Headlines – May 7, 2009
Sure, there are many people who want Griffin reappointed-and nearly every one of them is scared of losing their federal largess from the Constellation money pot. Vote To Keep Mike - NASA Watch
The still-surviving custom of clientship made the object of largesses difficult to establish, and the secrecy of the ballot, which had been introduced for elections in 139, made it impossible to prove that the suspicious gift had been effective and thus to construct A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
Extending benefits, or more accurately, the distribution of scraps from the public largesse, does nothing to help get the economy going. Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit
They're not benefiting from public largesse. Times, Sunday Times
Then he bade bring forth money and apparel and clad them in sumptuous robes of honour and showered largesse upon them, wherefore they all loved him and obeyed him. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Indeed, the immense collection of books and artefacts that he brought back probably outweighed the largesse he distributed. The Times Literary Supplement
But it remains to be seen whether Bank of Scotland account holders will also benefit from such largesse.
There stands on the bank and there lies in the flood a tree of beaten gold, gently moving against the sky, gently quivering in the water, flinging largess of its yellow money into the vistaed gold of its reflection. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
The least these rural receivers of public largesse can do is let the great unwashed walk across their fields. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, he sought to demonstrate the benefits of US largesse by initialing a preliminary, non-binding agreement offering to share aspects of US military technology.
The guilt, though , and the awkward awareness of living on your laws' largesse , tough.
Their mistakes were made all the more unpalatable by the largesse with which our cash is dished out to undeserving causes.
Indeed, the immense collection of books and artefacts that he brought back probably outweighed the largesse he distributed. The Times Literary Supplement
So he arranged to meet with a man who had headed a corporation with extensive business ties to Enron and who had been a prime recipient of Enron's political largesse.
The bill for this public sector largesse lands on the doorsteps of taxpayers. Times, Sunday Times
She is quite actressy - that air of refined largesse - and also seems quintessentially English.
Her transactions and interactions with clients add up to a lacerating portrait of contemporary mores among the wealthy and the legions of us who depend on their largesse.
Microsoft appears to have constructed a kind of alternate universe for itself, where Microsoft never loses, and all are eternally indebted to their vast wisdom and largess.
The eccentric drunk's largesse solves the girl's problems, but when the scatterbrain forgets he gave her the money, she is arrested for thieving.
Open any newspaper, magazine or political website and the coverage of corporate campaign largesse, much of it anonymous, bedazzles the mind. Michael Winship: All They Ask for Is an Unfair Advantage
This largesse comes despite attempts to rein in pay. Times, Sunday Times
Investors are waiting to see how much of this largesse might come their way. Times, Sunday Times
Since then, governments have been nothing less than ingenious in creating ways to bestow largesse on the business world.
As beneficiaries of government largesse, these individuals have somehow hijacked the American Dream.
Unlike so many diplomats and corporate heads who have a duty to be seen to be distributing largesse in impoverished rural areas, Grant was more than merely visible at events.
There is no longer a bottomless pit from which largesse can be dispensed.
‘All our neighbours have a share of this largesse and many at present are looking for a second bite of the cherry,’ she added.
The GFT has been one of the beneficiaries of business largesse in the last year.
The largesse doled out to these ingrates includes, to name but some of the freebies, house; car; medical care; and various cash benefits.
The Independent and the London Evening Standard depend on the largesse of foreign investors.
(Another possible reason for this style of writing: convoluted, impenetrable strings of misused words and bizarre jargon impresses the grant-granters, on whose fickle largesse almost everyone in the arts depends. Freeing art from gibberish
Thanks to Barriss" and Jedi largesse, for two clanless vagabonds they had come a very long way in an exceedingly short time. The Cat is a Metaphor
This is largesse the country cannot afford. Times, Sunday Times
Describing Landesman as "our nation's nominal top funding dog," as one blogger did during the kerfuffle over the chairman's suggestion that the nation's resident theater scene is "overbuilt" meaning the funding is thin and artists aren't making much of a living, perhaps overstates the NEA's largesse. Some thoughts about Landesman's remarks
We have a fairly patrician government that in the past handed out largesse that kept us going.
Having benefitted immensely from her largesse, they cannot believe that the ‘daughter of the soil’ is no more.
Instead, they risked being upended by the many people who have felt for some years that there is a lot of largesse sloshing around the nation which has not come their way.
This largesse is the latest in a series of rescues for a museum that has periodically been desperate for its next financial fix.
Since nothing in The Constitution authorizes the US gubmint to send billions of taxpayer dollars out to foreign countries as “aid”, any potential candidate for the Whitehouse not in favor of such largess is automatically disqualified by the likes of AIPAC and their ilk. little guy Ron Paul on the Wiretap Bill « Antiwar.com Blog
But the main contribution made by Barclays 'largesse seems to be one of nomination - the sections of actual cyclepath (those blue strips) are obnoxiously prominent when one encounters them, but fairly rare in the network as a whole. Mute magazine - culture and politics after the net
The crowning touch was added to this delirious moment of festival by the simply scandalous distribution of golden coin, _golden_ mind you, which attendants clothed in every colour of an Egyptian sunset, and mounted upon diminutive, but pure bred donkeys, threw right and left with no stinting hand, to the distribution of which largesse responded shrill laughter, and still shriller cries, and thwack of stick on dark brown pate and cries of pain upon the meeting of youthful ivories in the aged ankle or wrist. Desert Love
Libertarians often make the case that the corruptibility of government largess by business interests is all the more reason to abandon it. Matthew Yglesias » Aid, Growth, and Counterinsurgency
This may be because the PLP may use this fund as a mechanism for handing our largesse to their friends.
The bill for this public sector largesse lands on the doorsteps of taxpayers. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps they expect to benefit directly from his largesse.
Jamie had planned on visits only to the two Cherokee villages closest to the Treaty Line, there to announce his new position, distribute modest gifts of whisky and tobacco-this last hastily borrowed from Tom Christie, who had fortunately purchased a hogshead of the weed on a seed-buying trip to Cross Creek-and inform the Cherokee that further largesse might be expected when he undertook ambassage to the more distant villages in the autumn. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
He didn't show the same largesse in the coast-to-coast guide. Times, Sunday Times
The philanthropic family's largesse was echoed by surprise announcements from both the Federal and provincial governments.
Orange County was a prime beneficiary of Cold War largesse, and the enemy in Washington was their prime economic supplier.
It focuses on a major drawback of largesse -- namely, largeness. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The guilt, though , and the awkward awareness of living on your laws' largesse , tough.
My first impression is of overabundant largesse, undercut with its flip side, a socially anxious desperation to please. Times, Sunday Times
Martin dispensed royal largess, inviting everybody up, farm-hands, a stableman, and the gardener's assistant from the hotel, the barkeeper, and the furtive hobo who slid in like a shadow and like a shadow hovered at the end of the bar. Chapter 17
They who immured me for petty years gave to me, all unwittingly, the largess of the centuries. Chapter 1
Their largesse extends beyond their own fans. Times, Sunday Times
This is largesse the country cannot afford. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, it turns out that the declaration of ‘independence’ is dependent upon largesse from the oil conglomerates.
Most Crikey readers would have seen the 7: 30 Report last night on what it so cutely called ‘targeted largesse’.
Yet, as Monbiot illustrates, the government has been back-pedalling on introducing tougher European rules on bonuses and senior bank executives continue to cream off moneys which the banks have accumulated simply because of the largesse of the taxpayer. Letters: Who's willing to take on the banks?
They're not benefiting from public largesse. Times, Sunday Times
This incredible Federal Reserve largesse did not go unnoticed by the leveraged speculating community.
Unfortunately, he said, this government was more interested in distribution of largesse on the basis of patronage.
I heard it too and it's not just coppers who are benefitting from this secret largesse, but politicians as well.
The distribution of National Lottery largesse is a complicated matter.
The future of that largess is in doubt a year into the credit crunch, with the bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the sale of Merrill Lynch & Co. adding to the thousands of jobs already lost — and the likelihood that more will come. 16 « September « 2008 « Niqnaq
That largesse extends to shareholders, who will receive a 25p special dividend. Times, Sunday Times
Almost literally larger than life, Brazilian danseur Marcelo Gomes and Russian ballerina Veronika Part devour the stage with their magnanimous largesse -- both size - and dance-wise. Tonya Plank: Marcelo Gomes and Veronika Part's Luscious, Heartbreaking La Bayadère
Yet logic threads manic needles lost in hayrick sanity; there is bread and fishes in your largesse, much wine in amphorae blessed with soporific gifts – we are pleased you came pissy-eyed to poetry gladly. Pissy-Eyed
You liked new engines, but management was scrupulous in its distribution of such largesse and your share was minute.
Of course, such largesse comes at a price. Times, Sunday Times
You know the big lavish parties with corporate largesse paying a lot of money.
At the same time, the acutely imbalanced U.S. bubble economy demands continuous monetary largess from both home and abroad.
If you mean moving the ball forward in terms of international attention, or in terms of eventually getting recognition and largess from the West for the former PLO (which at the start of the first intifada was exiled to Tunisia), then yes. Matthew Yglesias » The Strategic Logic of Nonviolence
Although he has no children of his own to inherit his fortune, he does have five nieces and nephews, all of whom benefit from his largesse from time to time.
The problem with affirmative action, it seems, is that it is dependent upon the largesse and consent of those who have no stake.
In reality, of the legions of aspiring writers, directors and producers, only the tiniest minority have benefited from Lottery largesse.
This conjures up the image of Pentagon suits running around with briefcases full of cash, dispensing taxpayer largesse to anyone who asks for it.
And you may be glad to oblige; it's very satisfying to dispense largesse. Times, Sunday Times
This largesse comes despite attempts to rein in pay. Times, Sunday Times
Investors are waiting to see how much of this largesse might come their way. Times, Sunday Times
Some of this largess is given as strings attached grants to universities; primarily to the U of Texas, U of Tulsa, and Stanford. Oil
Days later, the Caricom summit's opening session heard Mr Manning's recriminations, unbecomingly and unhelpfully directed at former regional beneficiaries of T & T largesse.
In the UK, with our more traditional culture of charity and state largesse, time banks have taken a while to establish.
Some multi-strategy hedge funds and fund-of-hedge funds are stressing the importance of their strong compliance departments and largess to show that they're above board.
Few see it as affectedness or selfish disrespect, laugh, relaxed by humour dispensed as freely as the largess of sensibly priced first-class avocados. Less Penance As Relief
In retrospect, Australia's flourishing multiculturalism was built on a fragile base: a booming economy with a wide distribution of its largesse.
This risk is, specifically, the production of a work of such overwhelming eclecticism that it turns abundance into aesthetic bedlam, largesse into graphomania. Archive 2007-10-01

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