Openhanded

In the painting, the enslaved and (as conjectured by historian Steven Weisenburger) sexually abused Margaret Garner betrays her liaison with her owner Archibald Gaines with an exposed, openhanded gesture toward him.

And when I did not answer, f-for my mouth was t-too dry for speech, he asked again, and I stammered out some nonsense, and then he struck me, openhanded, as though I was not a man.

In the economic realm, because of its temporary preponderance, the United States could afford to be openhanded.

Yet he understood nothing of real magnanimity; his charity was part of an openhanded recklessness, which made him fling the goods of fortune to the wind as soon as gained—part of the character of grand seigneur he aspired to assume.

Let selling be an openhanded selling, with justly balanced scales and price which do not prejudice either party, buyer or seller.

Arm-in-arm with religious liberals stand a legion of openhanded political liberals, humanists, and, of course, homosexuals themselves, all of whom passionately embrace homosexuality as a morally and constitutionally justified “alternative lifestyle."

The challengeof maintaining this awareness is to sit openhanded to receive all that comes.

We believe the majority of Swiss guides use the Swiss loop at the end of the rope, and the openhanded loop in the middle.

The iconic flower of love could be found in every state of its life cycle -- tender green shoots with tiny green thorns that looked like baby teeth, buds determined not to reveal themselves any sooner than necessary, fresh blooms that resemble sleepers just opening their eyes, and full blosssoms with the openhanded beauty of an old person's wrinkled face.

Patterson smacks her openhanded on the side of the head.