stinginess

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• As Steven Vogel, the late biomechanics researcher at Duke University, once wrote, such robots are more in line with the natural world, where stiff materials are doled out “with a stingy hand.”

• In fact, the Dolphins defense has been stingier on points allowed this year than every other team but the Pittsburgh Steelers.

• If the people who receive empathy and compassion are left better off, and if the people who dispense it are also left better off, I can’t see any reason to be stingy with it.

• At a conference last week, Jack Ma, Alibaba’s founder and Asia’s richest man, spoke out against the incumbent banking system, comparing its institutions to stingy pawnshops.

• For her part, Pelosi criticized the GOP’s proposals as too stingy, contending that the administration is focused on protecting tax breaks for the wealthy instead of help for families and children in need.

• Finally, a kind of self-reinforcing stinginess perhaps best explains the lack of Medals of Honor.

• Players can use the “Jewish stinginess” card to force competitors to hand over resources.

• Republican stinginess—relative stinginess, as all the proposals will cost massive amounts—could yield political dividends.

• Superlatives and all words denoting comparison should be used with stinginess.

• What Chopin says here and elsewhere about Duport's stinginess tallies with the contemporary newspaper accounts.

• But the diligence and liberality of the authorities were not to be outdone by the skulking stinginess of Negro-smugglers.