Sentences with phrase «such magnanimity»

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.

But, beautiful as such magnanimity is, «in honor preferring one another,» Maeterlinck was sufficiently great not to find such generosity too costly.

How rare is such magnanimity!

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

To be sure, such magnanimity was far from perfect.

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

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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.

That is not at all my opinion, for I think that every such character, if he has not had the magnanimity to keep silent, is a traitor against existence.

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.

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