Meaning of wide-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having hands that are wide.
2. Characterized by hands held open and splayed fingers.
3. Characterized by hands held away from the torso.
4. Generous

Examples

“The two masters have fundamentally different ideals of the human form : Fra Filippo's figures are short and thick, round-headed, and wide-handed ; Botticelli's, on the contrary, are tall and slender, with long oval faces and narrow bony hands”

“But wide-handed, beef-shouldered Jack Nicklaus, present U.S. Open champ, commonly drives the ball 260 yards, sometimes tops 325.”

“Marie makes a distinction between the long-handed and the wide-handed forms.”

“Handy was a brown-faced man with crisply curling brown hair and blue eyes; a wide-handed, capable Philadelphia seaman.”

“It was a strange kind of clapping; a sort of wide-handed upward clap, compounded by the exaggerated nasal voice the hijras used in speech.”

“He gave Swainer a wide-handed wave.”

“Governments did not dispatch their most elite units, men who are truly not replaceable, unless the situation warranted a razor-sharp slice and not a wide-handed slap.”

“I like doing 100 by doing 40 normal, 30 wide-handed position, and then 30 in the close-handed position.”

“He gave a wide-handed gesture, puzzled as to why she was at his flat and picking up from the way she clenched her mouth so tightly that she was very tense.”

“His songwriting success brought Yvain to the notice of wide-handed theatre magnate Gustave Quinson, who had produced Henri Christin6's Phi-Phi three years earlier and, in spite of the fact that the composer had not a full score to his name, Quinson signed him up to write three musicals.”

“May God, through the wide-handed grace of His pity grant some kind of amnesty.”

“The men and women of my time were big-hearted and wide-handed people.”

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