Sample Sentences for

philanthropy

(editor-reviewed)

...he yet did not appear to enjoy that mental serenity, that inward content, which should be the reward of every sincere Christian and practical philanthropist.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

I could pretend I belonged to the Howard Avenue Civic League or some other fictitious philanthropy.  (source) Paul Zindel, The Pigman, 1968

Mr. Wren, apparently your family's philanthropy does not buy you the time it used to  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

There's no spring-board to philanthropy like a bad conscience.  (source) John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

When did you get so philanthropic, Kyle?  (source) Alex Flinn, Beastly, 2007

The music center project had been foundering despite a $50 million donation from the wife of Walt Disney, but local philanthropist Eli Broad stepped in after her death and willed the Gehry-designed hall into existence, with a grand opening in 2003.  (source) Steve Lopez, The Soloist, 1995

Word of his generosity quickly got around, which inspired other philanthropists — unwilling to be outdone — to send even more money; and before long people everywhere were sending gifts to the Washingtons, who were growing rich.†  (source) Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, 2007

I've already established scholarships for young people from this previously economically depressed region as well as other philanthropies.†  (source) John Ringo, Live Free or Die, 2010

in his version he had gone philanthropically to the rescue of a drunken friend.  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, 1925

Would anyone venture that Mr. McMurphy was a saint? ... Shall we examine a cross-section of this man's philanthropy?  (source) Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962

This is where she gets to call out the names of anyone late on their dues or tardy for meetings or not fulfilling their philanthropic duties.  (source) Kathryn Stockett, The Help, 2009

EARLY IN May, Peter Keating departed for Washington, to supervise the construction of a museum donated to the city by a great philanthropist easing his conscience.  (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

What I saw in him—as evidently as the indestructible ramparts of Old Ticonderoga, already cited as the most appropriate simile—was the features of stubborn and ponderous endurance, which might well have amounted to obstinacy in his earlier days; of integrity, that, like most of his other endowments, lay in a somewhat heavy mass, and was just as unmalleable or unmanageable as a ton of iron ore; and of benevolence which, fiercely as he led the bayonets on at Chippewa or Fort Erie, I take to be of quite as genuine a stamp as what actuates any or all the polemical philanthropists of the age.†  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850