(a.) Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent benefactor.
Example Sentences:
(1) His munificent patronage allowed Gehry to develop the technical tools and computer know-how that he would go on to employ on the Guggenheim Museum, and countless other projects since then.
(2) The majority of North Koreans depend not on the regime’s munificence but on market forces – they have already found this a more successful alternative, despite a disproportionate lack of international support or awareness.
(3) Many of these private contractors, such as Atos and G4S, pay little or no corporation tax, even as they benefit from state munificence.
(4) Theresa May’s cuddling up to Donald Trump is likely to result in a trade deal that will make the defeated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership look munificent.
(5) As and when that happens, on the assumption that wages are hardly likely to skyrocket, tight household budgets could start to snap, and we may well be faced with echoes of 2007-8: mortgage defaults, a sudden crisis of confidence – and, this time, no munificent government to clear up the mess.
(6) All boats will float on a tide of US munificence that could scarcely have been foreseen last year, when the polls put Trump well behind Clinton.
(7) It sees growth as an exclusively south-eastern engine which, in its great munificence, powers the rest of the country – which must make do with a sliver of London's transport spending and find ways to milk the capital rather than build itself up.
(8) The queen of compassion and munificence had been brought to earth; the spell was broken, the magic gone.
(9) It is unlikely to be the munificence of the UK’s benefit system, which is not particularly generous compared with many continental countries, and isn’t open to asylum seekers anyway.
(10) These 3,000 people share no bonuses and are excluded from the magic circle of John Lewis staff who enjoy not just the profits but all manner of sports clubs and leisure activities, thanks to the munificence of John Spedan Lewis, who gave away the company in 1929 in trust to its staff in perpetuity.
(11) Farming is sustained on infertile land (by and large, the uplands) through taxpayers’ munificence .
(12) SC I recognise that art has always been reliant on the munificence of rich, private patrons.
(13) Beneath the surface of our lives churns an ocean of information, from whose depths answers and optimisations ascend like munificent kraken.
(14) He is now remembered almost exclusively for his munificence, rather than the route he took to attaining wealth: reputation management (or laundering) par excellence.
(15) Helwan map The Nasserite state succeeded in delivering material security to much of its population, but it was based on a strictly paternal model of authority: the highest ranks of the military would rule in the interests of everybody, and everybody would be grateful for their munificence.
(16) The job market for young people is increasingly insecure, and low paid: it is sobering to think that the hourly minimum wage for an under-19 apprentice is about to increase from £2.73 to a munificent £3.30.
Unsparing
Definition:
(a.) Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse.
(a.) Not merciful or forgiving.
Example Sentences:
(1) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(2) While Coburn was unsparing of his criticism of HSBC, he thanked the bank for its co-operation and said there were issues at other institutions including Citigroup, Wachovia and Western Union.
(3) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
(4) Why won’t he help?” His 1966 Macbeth, with Alec Guinness and Simone Signoret , at the Royal Court, had pushed Shakespeare’s murky tragedy into unsparing white light, but Gaskill’s unscrubbed classics seemed less revelatory in later years.
(5) The injury-weakened German champions went down 3-1 in their quarter-final first leg , leaving their hopes of making the Champions League semi-finals hanging by a thread, and Bayern’s honorary president and most distinguished defender was unsparing in his criticism of the team.
(6) You’re getting sacked in the morning,” also came down, unsparingly, from the most vertiginous part of the Leazes End.
(7) They asked him why he kept talking like an accountant or an economist, always failing to see “the moral dimension.” To his deputy they were just as unsparing, beginning – as Nick Clegg must have known they would – with the credibility he lost, the reputation he destroyed, when he broke his word on tuition fees, and moving on to ask what plans he was making for life out of work.
(8) But if the afternoon has any lasting impact on those with mental health concerns, it will be because of the unsentimental but unsparing personal stories of those four MPs.
(9) In Night , reproduced here, Judt subjects his own deterioration to the same unsparing scrutiny as he would the Israel-Palestine conflict, say.
(10) In 1994, while compiling his unsparing report on the Treasury, he had met and worked with Suzanne Cook, a civil servant who was even more organised than he was.
(11) The taxpayer subsidises MPs' bars and canteens to the tune of £5.8m a year, and my verdict on myself for this indulgence is unsparing.
(12) Weiner review: an unsparing portrait of politics and a gift that keeps giving Read more A voice from behind a camera perched inside her Manhattan apartment asks her to describe how she feels.
(13) Those that could were forced to keep walking north and settled in refugee camps on the unsparing volcanic rock where they swiftly began to die in their tens of thousands from cholera.
(14) Keane, who admits his relationship with the Ipswich players was often fractious and once resulted in a physical confrontation with Jon Walters, is unsparing in his criticisms, accusing Couñago of being lazy and uncommitted and saying he was another player with whom his relationship almost descended into violence.
(15) Senator John McCain , a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who was the Republicans’ 2008 nominee, was unsparing.
(16) Asked why the New York tabloids have gone for him so hard, Weiner says: “I lied to them, I’ve got a funny name and they don’t do nuance.” Weiner review: an unsparing portrait of politics and a gift that keeps giving Read more It’s maybe inevitable that Weiner’s qualities as a politician are subsumed beneath the chatter about his poise as a glamour model.
(17) A Yi, for instance, is barely known even in China, but his quality as a morally unsparing writer – a kind of Chinese cousin to Camus , unafraid to depict corruption and toxic working lives – has interested the best translators of Chinese fiction such as Julia Lovell , who translated his stark fable of farming villagers dwarfed by huge forces of globalisation, The Curse .
(18) So these unsparing public accounts of dying are perhaps best read as a tentative kind of prayer for the godless: a lesson in being able when the time eventually comes to leave our children with grace, put right some wrongs, and to accept what we cannot change.
(19) Today's report is also unsparing about the behaviour of two bodies whose original duty it had been to investigate the evidence against the News of the World.
(20) Eaten Fish’s drawings are unsparing works that attempt to bring before our eyes the forms of abjection, criminality and violence that have been fostered through the organisation of the camps.