Mother 1 is kind, she comes when it calls, she gives it milk as soon as it needs it, she's sweet-natured and generous, wondrous and eminently deserving of love.
Who was to know that she had grown generous in the greediness of a new passion, that in coveting one cousin she was dealing liberally with another, that in her eagerness to appropriate she gave way?
Counter to what we might believe, people who are the most likely to gain power in a group are actually the emotionally intelligent ones who focus on others, practice generosity and aren't the bullies.
" I'll mix the salad myself, " he told the waiter in an off-hand and yet commanding way, and then, casting his eye once more on the bill of fare, generously: " And what about some asparagus to follow" ?
When children are given too much, it undermines their respect for their parents. In fact, the children begin to sense that a parent's unlimited generosity is not right.
She was remembering the vital, virile old man with his mane of crisp white hair, his bellowing cheerfulness, his stamping boots, his clumsy jokes, his generosity.
Indians hear such criticisms less often because Mr Modi has cowed the press, showering bounty on flatterers while starving, controlling and bullying critics.
LinkedIn, which is ostensibly a networking site for career-minded professionals, is overrun with sickly videos showing people being improbably generous to the homeless.