Sentences with phrase «magnanimous when»

You must be magnanimous when you win and you must be gracious when you lose.

An offer from TransCanada to build a new natural gas line to the province seems good on the surface, but considerably less magnanimous when you consider it's asking the Ontario Energy Board to approve a 52.3 per cent increase to the rates it charges to some of its customers.

Not exact matches

When a servant breaks a vase, a magnanimous soul waves it off.

Abraham Lincoln's greatness of character came out when catastrophe faced him, when he was steady in a shaken time, magnanimous in a vindictive time, when the worse the situation became the more of a man he proved himself to be.

It was never summed - up better than by Winston Churchill on the death of Neville Chamberlain when, in one of the most magnanimous tributes in political history, Churchill said: «The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

When I asked how long he might remain in such a magnanimous mood, he responded:

The older brother of my best friend in high school had a 1972 Monte Carlo with a Chevy big block engine, and when he felt magnanimous he would chauffeur us around on weekends.

Bad is not quite angry and can be unexpectedly magnanimous, but he's not ready to be roused out of self pity, especially when it's Tommy Sweet trying to give him a second chance.

But to Italian car - besotted Tommy, 18, and Joe, 15, it all came together when the magnanimous Maserati press office delivered a luscious, black 2007 Quattroporte Sport GT S — with a startling red interior — in my name to our hotel in Rome for our holiday.

Magnanimous and generous when it meant so much to artists in an era different from our own (he'd have been in williamsburg today one supposes)