1898, Jean Paul Richter, Lectures on the National Gallery, 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
1963, Robert Gannon, Why Sports Records are Being Broken: Science or Supermen?, But wide-handed, beef-shouldered Jack Nicklaus, present U.S. Open champ, commonly drives the ball 260 yards, sometimes tops 325.
1904, Hermann Oppenheim, Diseases of the nervous system, Marie makes a distinction between the long-handed and the wide-handed forms.
2000, John Clagett, Captain Whitecap, Handy was a brown-faced man with crisply curling brown hair and blue eyes; a wide-handed, capable Philadelphia seaman.
Characterized by hands held open and splayed fingers.
2007, Veronique Renard, Pholomolo: No Man No Woman, 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.
2009, Joe Pernice, It Feels So Good When I Stop, He gave Swainer a wide-handed wave.
2014, Fred Burton & ‎Samuel M. Katz, Under Fire, 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.
2011, Gary Steven Gautier, Heal Thyself, Optimum Health Forever, I like doing 100 by doing 40 normal, 30 wide-handed position, and then 30 in the close-handed position.
2014, Lynda La Plante, Twisted, 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.
2001, Kurt Gänzl, Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, 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.
2012, Peter Brown, Through the Eye of a Needle, May God, through the wide-handed grace of His pity grant some kind of amnesty.
2014, Janet Dailey, Aspen Gold, The men and women of my time were big-hearted and wide-handed people.
Adverb
wide-handed
In a wide-handed manner.
1889, William Larminie, Glanlua and Other Poems, Not such are the beings that earth now breeds : No more the vast god nor the demon : her seeds Wide-handed she scatters, wide-handed feeds
1914, Albert Payson Terhune, Dad, Wide-handed he struck and with open palm on the portion of the bargee's anatomy which, in that position, presented the largest and, in all respects, the most convenient ...
