Sentences with phrase «magnanimity of»

As a disclaimer, I will confess that these changes are not due to the magnanimity of the consumers who want to alleviate the potentially devastating effects of Global Warming, but instead are primarily due to the fact that people don't want to spend so much money on gas (and they use the Global Warming argument as a backup to assuage their conscience)

The magnanimity of her work comes from the acknowledgment of her liberated ego.

GIVING AWAY AND LEAVING BEHIND: Such was the magnanimity of Robert Rauschenberg (1925 — 2008), arguably the most influential figure in postwar American art.

Imagine your little bath - time rubber ducky on steroids and you can appreciate the magnanimity of Florentjin Hofman's Big Yellow Duck, officially titled «Rubber Duck.»

Beau Travail transliterates Herman Melville's low - key homoerotic sailor tale Billy Budd, in which Melville wrestles, for the final time, with the magnanimity of God and the mendacity of man, as a vituperative study of imperialism and militarism as wanton outlets for flimsy masculinity.

They (pensioners) won't have been paid but for the magnanimity of the governor, who said we must include them because they had served the state diligently.

In spite of the appeal which this impersonality of the scientific attitude makes to a certain magnanimity of temper, I believe it to be shallow, and I can now state my reason in comparatively few words.

It possesses magnificent character delineation: the great theme is the princely magnanimity of Joseph, envied by his lesser brothers, his life threatened, then at length spared only through the dubious device of selling him into slavery in Egypt; and there, his fortunes going from bad to worse, he was, for no fault of his own but indeed because of his integrity, hurled into an oriental prison to lie hopeless until some dubious chance should release him.

That was how the church was brought into existence, and it could never forget that its foundation members were discredited men who owed their position solely to the magnanimity of their ill - used Master.

«My prayer is, particularly in the week just before we remember two years of Nelson Mandela's passing on, we will have magnanimity of South Africans, we will pray that justice will be done but we will start the process of healing through whatever the courts will lead us.

Not exact matches

Such magnanimity is a tell — one of many, in fact — that Cody Green is not your average tech entrepreneur.

When Airbnb and Amazon become the self - proclaimed voices of public morality — a trend we're seeing in America more broadly — the pressure on megachurches to act with no less magnanimity is even stronger.

I can't thank you enough for your magnanimity and generosity of spirit.

One must be realistic about human nature: Human beings are capable of magnanimity and mercy; they can also be stone - cold killers.

If we are struck by Francesca's courteous speech, we note that she is also in the habit of blaming others for her own difficulties; if we admire Farinata's magnanimity, we also note that his soul contains no room for God; if we are wrung by Pier delle Vigne's piteous narrative, we also consider that he has totally abandoned his allegiance to God for his belief in the power of his emperor; if we are moved by Brunetto Latini's devotion to his pupil, we become aware that his view of Dante's earthly mission has little of religion in it; if we are swept up in enthusiasm for the noble vigor of Ulysses, we eventually understand that he is maniacally egotistical; if we weep for Ugolino's piteous paternal feelings, we finally understand that he, too, was centrally (and damnably) concerned with himself, even at the expense of his children.

From vindictiveness to magnanimity; from tribalism to universality, from the regret of penalized men over broken taboos to the penitence of humble men over personal guilt; from supplications for physical benefits to prayer as the fulfilling of interior conditions of spiritual growth; from the desire to impose man's will on a god to the desire that God's will should be done through man — such are the developments revealed in the recorded prayers of the Bible.

The believers and the sympathizers who expected inspiring personalities at key positions in the Church were disappointed by a procession of tired bureaucrats who lacked the magnanimity, vision, and creativity necessary to prepare the Church for the coming decade.

«Uncle Will» has a fully developed teaching on the place of man in the cosmos, the indispensability of the Stoic virtues of magnanimity and generosity, and loneliness, class, understanding, beauty, and love.

Purity that respects the sanctity of womanhood; sincerity that makes your «yea» enough without an oath and your word as good as your bond; magnanimity, like Lincoln's, with malice toward none, with charity for all; kindness which unostentatiously helps one's fellows, the right hand not knowing what the left hand does — all that is livable.

«Instead, it will take a force of magnanimity and graciousness to restore equilibrium to both nation and individuals.»

No amount of magnanimity, determination or strength will get us through the many impossible moments (and seasons) of married life.

A high place must be accorded the story of Joseph, who in a spirit of revenge, it might seem, dealt harshly with his brothers, but whose real magnanimity the evolution of the plot reveals.

So I require of him this magnanimity; but when be possesses it, dare he then keep silent?

Given a certain amount of love, indignation, generosity, magnanimity, admiration, loyalty, or enthusiasm of self - surrender, the result is always the same.

It is merely the extreme limit of a kind of magnanimity with which, in the shape of pitying tolerance of our oppressors, we are fairly familiar.

he pleaded for the virtues of humility, harmony, magnanimity, saying, «Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus»; (Philippians 2:1 - 5 [Moffatt translation]-RRB- he saw the bearing of one another's burdens as the fulfilment of the «law of Christ»; (Galatians 6:2.)

Curiously, the memory is a little stronger, the image a little firmer, in recollecting the buying of presents, rather than the getting: the simultaneous feeling of titanic generosity and utter miserliness, an endless calculation of love measured to the penny, and an irrecoverable sensation» the proud knowledge that one has, in a rage of magnanimity, squandered every cent, matched with the shameful awareness of just how paltry the result is.

It is to be noted that only fellow Israelites were included within the scope of such magnanimity.

By thus calling attention to the problem of treating enemies, not when they were triumphant but when they were in distress, a path of least resistance was indicated for the progressive spirit of magnanimity.

Between the Testaments, despite national evils which brought vindictiveness naturally in their train, there was a notable deepening of magnanimity.

The overpassing of the limitation of externality in early Hebrew morals involved not only the development of ethical ideals concerning special virtues such as magnanimity, but a profoundly important evolution of thought about the nature of sin in general and of what is necessary in securing salvation from it.

So mired in white blindness, so lost in the liberal orthodoxy that counts mere dissociation from racism as virtue, and so addicted to the easy moral esteem that comes to her from dissociation, Dowd plays the oldest race cards of all - I'm white and you're black, so shut up and be grateful for my magnanimity.

With exaggerated gestures and abrupt facial expressions that he has developed over the years, and with appropriate strains of strings and brass in the background, Schuller painted word - pictures of America's achievements over the years and her magnanimity toward other nations and their peoples.

A large part of Lincoln's hold on our affections is due to his magnanimity.

Characters in other respects spacious and admirable often fail before this test of magnanimity.

Johnson's reply demonstrates in equal measure the great classical virtue of magnanimity and the great Christian virtue of forgiveness.

One is haunted by the idea that if, on any large scale, Christians should exhibit such magnanimity as the Sermon on the Mount enjoins, there would be stirred up in the heart of this very bitter and vindictive world a wistful response like the Turk's.

Indeed the Northern Peoples Party's leader Chief Dombo's action showed great magnanimity towards NOT Busia, but the building of a strong opposition to Nkrumah and his CPP who were having a field's day at elections since 1951 and also in Parliament.

A few days ago, the administration of Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State in its magnanimity approved a 13th month salary for the civil servants of...

Senator Ake who is a major beneficiary of Amaechi's political magnanimity was quoted to have alluded to the fact that the Minister will be removed as the Leader of the Party if Abe is not allowed to fly the Governorship flag of the APC come 2019.

He added: «Lady Thatcher will undoubtedly be remembered as a leader of great conviction but greatness in my view has to be tempered with generosity and magnanimity if one is to earn a permanent place in the heart of this nation.»

At the hearing, the accountant general reminded the House that the Labour leaders had insisted that the pensioners were not at all captured in the bailout fund but the governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, in his magnanimity, decided that the pensioners, having served the state diligently, must be included in the disbursement of the bailout.

«We are the party of the rule of law, and we should act accordingly, with magnanimity in our moment of victory.»

Though the researchers say the link between religion and magnanimity may seem surprising given that news headlines so often focus on terrorist attacks and other atrocities committed in the name of religion, their results suggest that for most people, the influence of religion may be more positive than what is often portrayed in the media.

A container for all the other elements; the source of intuition and wisdom from the universe; associated with magnanimity and expansion

Hi, and thank you for all of your help and magnanimity.

For almost as long as there have been recorded histories of Alexander the Great, historians have struggled to reckon their subject's evident magnanimity with his equally apparent bloodlust.

My Life as a Zucchini Year: 2016 Director: Claude Barras Barras's most impressive feat — besides keeping this animated film under 70 minutes — is how effortlessly he gives the film to Zucchini, never once letting the corruption of the adult world stain My Life as a Zucchini's lively hues and livelier magnanimity.

A sense of gnawing inadequacy is a universal feeling, and The Disaster Artist certainly mines the notion that there's a little bit of the outsider in everybody — which is exactly the kind of magnanimity you'd expect.

The basekt - weavings and foam carvings in Wicker and Diapers take a hobbyist's approach to the endeavor of sculpture - making and the works magnanimity and craft — by dint of its materials, content, and genuineness — preserve, in a way, a balance between the individual and group.