But even with the most generous possible assessment, this is the administration's second big policy disaster, after Iraq.
Commission officials say publicly that the situation is nearing a resolution, but that may be a generous assessment.
But in that generous assessment, what he would ultimately provide the Capitals was, perhaps, underestimated.
Clark, for example, receives a justifiably more generous assessment than has often been the case.
Callow arrives at his more generous assessment with some reluctance.
To say the case file added anything to my understanding of Miko's psychotherapy would have been a generous assessment.
"Store" was a generous assessment of the establishment.
The assessment of Smith's contribution, unreservedly generous at his death, has changed somewhat in recent decades.
Until recently even the most generous assessment places the subject at the edges of objective inquiry if not entirely outside the scientific method.
Even the most generous assessment of Bantam's rights sales would not allow the house to earn back more than half its investment before publication.