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383 examples of Charity in a sentence

Mr Perks,like many working people of his time,will have nothing to do with anything that he considers smacks of "charity" and it is a key moment in the movie when he finally accepts that birthday gifts he has been given by the children do not compromise his principles.
After giving Pokemon the Movie one point, giving this movie one point seems like nothing short of charity.
The big names voted off just happened to already have received money for their charity and got a custom tailored exit.
People who make money with this movie should give it to charity, so at least it serves for a good reason.
I understand poor actors must pay their food but why not just give them the money that takes to make a stupid movie like that or give that money to a charity.
The story(as i'm sure most people know)is this,the young and plain Jane Eyre is a teacher at a charity school for girls in the 1800's who advertises her services as a governess in the newspapers.She is offered the post of governess at the big mansion Thornfield Hall to tutor Adele the young ward of the halls mysterious and respected owner Mr Rochester.
It attracted nearly five million viewers and after the screening the public donated over half a million pounds to Jonny's charity, DEBRA.
This man has touched people in a way that a million charity leaflets could not.
From his hit 'I want you back' to 'We are the World' the multi-award winning charity record for the benefit of Africa.
He has come to take part in fixing up the country since, in his mind, it's about time Germany was shown some charity.
Even more so, even though he was in excruciating and unbearable pain he still opened up his own charity.
Something that doesn't involve covering rush week parties, local charity bake sales, sports events and the usual bland 'human interest' stories.
Throwing parties, attending charity events, an occasional nude/semi-nude photo shoot.
The film is amazingly bad, for the most part the costumes appear to have come from really bad 1980's army surplus and charity shops, the acting is wooden and totally unconvincing.
Millions of dollars for charity, a spot on Jay Leno, all over the news, and I never heard of the Knapely W.I. calendar girls.
Whoever green lit this film could have given the money to any charity and probably felt better about his/herself.
He also refuses to accept the job the local lawyer is proposing: investigator for his special cases, because he feels it is charity.
It is not a laugh a minute comedy there are some funny moments but the film really is about ordinary women in their fifties trying to do some charity work by doing the extraordinary i.e. posing nude to sell calendars.
Dorothy Janis, who apparently only made a handful of films in her brief career, is stunningly beautiful and effective as the pagan girl Shoesmith wishes to wed, and Donald Crisp is first rate as Slater, the cad who disguises his lust as an act of Christian charity.
This is simply a movie about a women's group that wants to make a nude calendar and donate all the money to a charity.
I saw 'The Black Balloon' last night as a charity event for our local disability services.
The director avoids all sentimentality, yet the movie has moments of humor, pathos, cynicism, charity and quiet desperation.
The president of the USA is addressing a charity dinner.
Then in that case what is the dog, but the burden of caretaking, the concept of blind selflessness and charity towards others ("he doesn't have a name"), that Christianity extols?
I thought the story was well told and unfolded in three parts, what gay days is... it questioned if events should give more to charity and it ended on a kind of sad note about one of the main characters feeling like he didn't belong in his own community anymore.
One has to wonder if Hollywood is running out of imagination or just getting lazy! the money for this film would has served better going to a charity!
In a proper world all profits would be given to charity and the people involved would be horsewhipped for about ten minutes and sent off with a warning that the next time the punishment will be much worse.
"Calendar Girls" tells of the exploits of 11 British women - all fifty-something-and-up members of a Women's Club - who decide to pose in the nude for a calendar to raise money for a local charity following the death of one of their spouses.
I know that she works on a donation basis and does a lot of charity work not charging people for her services when she feels they really need the help and couldn't otherwise get it.
This was a film that questioned the personal interpretation Christian charity in a manner that I found surprising for a film of that time All the cast was superb and the settings of a small New England harbour town was excellent, the shipwreck scene was very well done.
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