Sentences with phrase «so magnanimous»

Here was a host so magnanimous that a thousand guests would find the gift of a signed and numbered, chicken - and - egg sculpture by Urs Fischer waiting in their hotel rooms.

As for the police presence within the city it's barely even an irritant, so magnanimous are they with their view on crime.

If this guy is going to be so magnanimous, it seems redundant that he should even have a dog.

It is, perhaps, a measure of Lord Mandelson's sense of victory that he is so magnanimous about his rival for the Prime Minister's ear.

Not exact matches

Aristotle's so - called «magnanimous man», in the Nichomachean Ethics seems to me a ghastly model for God, with that man's «remarkable condescension» but with his incapacity genuinely to share.

I say so because, whatever he is today in politics is a product of Obasanjo's magnanimous efforts.

Lord and Miller have spoken about their Solo experience in the past, always being thoroughly magnanimous about the process and the fall - out, so however much of their original idea remains in Ron Howard's version, this creative acknowledgment is a fitting end to the story.

Rabbi Chaim calls Saul magnanimous, a person of character and fortitude, but to Simon he was a decorous, timid man who skirted conflict and trouble — a man who seemed to do so little out of passion that it was a wonder he had ever married Gertie, for no one would have viewed Simon's mother, with her ambition and pendulum moods, as a pragmatic choice.

«They were magnanimous in victory, so we appreciate it,» Hatman says, laughing.

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)

There are so many projects out there that are all promising magnanimous things, but many of them just can't deliver.