It's the doing of the good deed that is important, not the thanks you receive.
is that mess in the kitchen your doing?
Recent Examples on the WebMother’s Day doings Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12, and flowers, reservations, cake and champagne should be on your to do list.—Laura Ness, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024 The hollows may be the doing of volatiles, scientists theorize.—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024 The older boys, Earl and Jermaine, tried to look out for him, and in Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct in the late 1980s, that took some doing.—Joe Sexton, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2024 Cultural Forensics of America’s Love Affair With KPIs Historically, the United States finds our pride in being human doings, rather than human beings.—Sarah Davanzo, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024 That was not the doing of technofeudalism, because technofeudalism came later.—Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2024 Owen is dashing with a cigarette and suit and the twisty plot which pulls in Cold War, religious doings, and espionage.—Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024 Much of this illusion resulted from Liszt’s sorcery in translating the score for the piano; the rest was Levit’s doing.—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024 The Klan and its ghoulish doings were greatly diminished, but the hate endured.—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
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