Sentence examples for magnanimous thing from inspiring English sources

Christmas windows are this magnanimous thing stores do for the city".

The magnanimous thing to say is that I don't begrudge anyone a break but I am not feeling magnanimous.

If he won't do the magnanimous thing, then the International Olympic Committee ought to find a way to award duplicate gold medals as South Korean officials have suggested.

We say that, even though we had suggested earlier that Mr. Hamm might "do the magnanimous thing" and give up his medal.

Once, we were all waiting to watch him in committee and he passed by us with the words, "Come to pour another bucket of shit over Parliament, have you?" So here we have the only magnanimous thing he's done in a decade – accepted a peerage which makes him look ridiculous in order to please his wife, Lady Prescott.

I think it'll be too hard for him to give this speech tomorrow night (in front of an adoring crowd), but I think once the balloons have all dropped and Bernie flies home to consider his options, he will do the magnanimous thing and announce his support for Hillary Clinton.

No. 4 Purdue (13-0) does all those magnanimous things, but then it can go off the bounce as if it were at the playground and say, "The heck with the playbook".

When questioned about the people who went to all this effort to show how much they hate them, they mostly said magnanimous things about people having the right to protest in a democracy.

Bush himself is described as many things: "a visionary," "magnanimous," "instinctive".

10.56am BST "I will forgive Cook many of his failings", posits the magnanimous Ravi Nair, "if he makes up for not playing Ali first thing yesterday, by not playing him first thing today either.

Once Tim Russert had made Mrs. Clinton uncomfortable by showing an old tape of her defending her feckless husband, the smart thing for Mr. Lazio to do was be magnanimous.