What's the difference between generosity and thrift?

Generosity


Definition:

  • (n.) Noble birth.
  • (n.) The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness.
  • (n.) Liberality in giving; munificence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The generosity of your readers ensures these young people have a greater chance of a positive future."
  • (2) During the last years of her life, Shearer wrote book reviews (not just of dance books) for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which were immensely readable though not celebrated for their generosity towards authors.
  • (3) The alleged killer could not imagine how the city of Charleston, under the good and wise leadership of Mayor Riley – how the state of South Carolina, how the United States of America would respond – not merely with revulsion at his evil act, but with big-hearted generosity and, more importantly, with a thoughtful introspection and self-examination that we so rarely see in public life.
  • (4) Reductions in the generosity of fee-for-service insurance lower the use of general medical and mental health services, but do they lead to lower mental health status for the covered population?
  • (5) The Centre for Policy Studies, a centre-right thinktank, said there was a huge difference between generosity, as practised by Warren Buffett, and compulsory taxation.
  • (6) The barrister, playwright and author Sir John Mortimer , who has died aged 85, was a man for all the seasons that touched his Chilterns garden, where he lived as profusely as he wrote, in a spirit of unjudgmental generosity.
  • (7) Everyone was taken aback by Harrison's generosity, not least Idle.
  • (8) They are thus funded or closed from season to season depending on the generosity of surrounding mines, the success of local art centres, and the sympathy of wealthy patrons.
  • (9) Give generosity to those who seek to form opinion and discernment to those who vote, that our nation may prosper and that with all the peoples of Europe we may work for peace and the common good; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • (10) He said the UK legal aid system “is pretty much at the top of the tree in generosity” compared with the rest of Europe, but it was now necessary to get the multi-million pound budget under control.
  • (11) At least in the country we live in, there's an acceptance and a generosity and inclusiveness which has allowed us to accept alien cultures and learn from them.
  • (12) A dentist not so red in tooth and claw | Letters Read more WildCRU’s director, Prof David Macdonald, said the team would devote themselves to working for the conservation of lions following the “incredible generosity”.
  • (13) For instance, is it the greater generosity of the Swedish system--in Sweden, the share of drug reimbursement expenditures to total drug consumption is 57%, as against 33% in Norway, 38% in Finland and 34% in Denmark--that makes drug consumption per capita so much higher in Sweden?
  • (14) Above all, the way he responded to the brutality he had endured, his generosity towards his captors and his lack of desire for revenge against the wider white minority they had served established him as a kind of paragon.
  • (15) The Ned Waihopai River Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (£9.99, Waitrose ; Majestic ) There's all the pungent verdant grass-and-gooseberry of classic Kiwi sauvignon here to match with asparagus, plus the generosity of fruit and limey acidity that will work just as well with a mildly spicy and herby Vietnamese or Thai stir-fry.
  • (16) Their amazing generosity and hopefulness despite everything they’ve been through.
  • (17) If you don't turn up for work, you can be docked a day's pay – and whether you will or not largely depends on your boss's generosity.
  • (18) I’ve still got the blisters.” Still, that’s the virtue of a two-year campaign – during which Davis has been an unpaid, full-time candidate, who survives, as she puts it, on “debt and generosity.” It gives you time to try things.
  • (19) 4.15pm GMT There continues to be some controversy over the generosity of Plyushchenko’s scores.
  • (20) The development of higher education in Britain, and almost everywhere else, has been fundamentally driven by demands for the progressive enlargement of the educational “franchise”, responded to by the state initially with generosity but now with grudging resistance.

Thrift


Definition:

  • (n.) A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
  • (n.) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.
  • (n.) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
  • (n.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since when did thrift become so synonymous with the middle classes?
  • (2) Pledging to replace "Labour's spendaholic government with a new government of thrift", he said: "With a Conservative government, if ministers want to impress the boss, they'll have to make their budgets smaller, not bigger.
  • (3) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won best new artist and received three awards in the rap field before the show began with best rap album for The Heist and best rap performance and best rap song for Thrift Shop.
  • (4) Bovine viral diarrhea virus was believed to be the cause of ill-thrift since birth, resulting in death of a Holstein calf.
  • (5) As he reminded us, "Keynes talked about a ' paradox of thrift ': everyone and every country being individually wise but collectively foolish – leading to a downward spiral."
  • (6) However, studies on the aetiology of ill-thrift in young sheep indicate that arthropod-borne anaemia-producing pathogens are an important contributing factor, which cannot readily be diagnosed and controlled.
  • (7) Very few would argue with advising consolidation and thrift to an individual trying to bring debt under control.
  • (8) Festival curator Wayne Hemingway says thrift is not about buying more stuff for less, but about consuming more intelligently, reusing, recycling and thinking creatively about the way we live and consume.
  • (9) Savings are generally seen as benign and the result of virtue and thrift, but they are dangerous when handed to investment managers under pressure to produce high returns.
  • (10) Many of the new Thatcher-era first-time buyers gained their ownership through the right to buy scheme, giving council tenants the right, for the first time, to buy their homes at a hefty discount – about which Thatcher had initial reservations, due to her instinctive thrift.
  • (11) 2) At school the kids wore hippy dresses from thrift stores, and people made their own clothes.
  • (12) Two Parisian dudes who've just given us a lesson in the art of pool slides and thrift shopping.
  • (13) As a little girl, she'd visit thrift shops with her mother for outfits and back at home she amassed a suitcase of prom dresses.
  • (14) I pondered this as I sat in my regrettably pricey train seat on the way to the UK's first Festival of Thrift last weekend, held in Darlington.
  • (15) The Tory leader hammered away at the need for government to deliver "more for less", for "a government of thrift" and for "big changes for government and the role of the state".
  • (16) It's between Blurred Lines, Get Lucky, Thrift Shop, Diamonds and Locked Out Of Heaven.
  • (17) E. ovis, either alone or in combination with one or more of these parasites, caused a severe prolonged anaemia accompanied by the development of ill-thrift.
  • (18) However, in heavily infected flocks, economically significant disease does occur, mainly apparent as ill-thrift and chronic respiratory disease (maedi) in older ewes and as an indurative mastitis, which can result in delayed weight gain of suckled lambs.
  • (19) Antibiotic-resistant STIs are a way to remind ourselves of the dignity of the NHS project, its elegant combination of generosity, ambition and meaningful thrift, investing in a population because they’re worth it, whatever they’ve been up to.
  • (20) They are often reluctant to use taxis when accessible public transport isn't available, ending up home and alone, because of long-learned lessons about thrift.