How to Use magnanimity in a Sentence

magnanimity

noun

• The lack of any magnanimity among the victors of the culture war was also one of Trump’s aces last year.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
• His magnanimity inspired many of us to let past grudges be past.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 20 June 2017
• Ahead of the law Facebook's gesture is not borne of pure magnanimity.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2019
• In his last years, Mr. Charles was able to look back at his life with magnanimity, moving from a place of deep anger to one of conciliation.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• Bulls guard Alex Caruso credits DeRozan’s longevity to his magnanimity as much as his midrange jumper.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2023
• Without magnanimity on the part of its core members, the Western alliance will not long endure.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2018
• After the race, Ledecky reflected on the magnanimity of beating Phelps' record.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
• Since Thursday, the calls for talks by Jake Sullivan, Blinken, and the president himself have been taken less as a sign of magnanimity than of weakness.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Feb. 2021
• What’s missing from Ms. Ruden’s piece is the same thing missing from so much of our cultural discourse: magnanimity.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• Azerbaijan has thus far shown little of the magnanimity in victory that might help break this cycle.
  — Neil Hauer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2020
• Some of the magnanimity of the original version is lost in Mr. Kremer’s translation.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• Every so often, there are acts of magnanimity that remind us how our politics could work.
  — Ryan Clancy, WSJ, 23 June 2019
• When McConnell surrendered, did Democrats voice the magnanimity of the true champion?
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2021
• Friends of Cámara invariably point to her own family as the wellspring of the breezy self-belief and magnanimity that permeates her restaurants.
  — Rob Haskell, Vogue, 15 May 2019
• Bergeron’s carte blanche and magnanimity — like his brilliant career — must have some endpoint.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• His warlord of a manager, Elliott Roberts, in what seems to me a startling act of managerial magnanimity, was right behind him.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2019
• In one way, this is simple magnanimity, a gesture of appreciation from the boss to his employees.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2021
• And each side was watching carefully to see if the other would show any signs of weakness or magnanimity — both potentially toxic in this shutdown.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
• Even with Zemlinsky, Alma made no secret that the bestowal of her beautiful and Christian self on a small, ugly Jew was a gracious act of magnanimity.
  — Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
• Those who noticed the errors responded on Twitter with the kind of graciousness and magnanimity people have come to expect from the social media platform.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2017
• Much better to strike a pose of magnanimity on the least bad of several options in order to strengthen his hand down the road — which means the 2022 midterm elections, and ultimately the presidential contest to follow.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 10 Aug. 2021
• In a country where the government enjoys vast powers over farm ownership, Grace Mugabe will need Mnangagwa’s magnanimity to keep the land.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• And in her infinite magnanimity, Oprah wanted to share this experience with her fans.
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 29 Sep. 2017
• More than most dictators, Erdogan views magnanimity with contempt and as a sign of weakness, rather than a gesture to be reciprocated in kind.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 5 Nov. 2019
• That's a supremely easy position from which to display magnanimity.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 27 Jan. 2022
• For the next two decades, there were three constants to Atlanta sports: Mediocre on-field performance, the magnificence of Niekro’s knuckleball and the magnanimity of his personality.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
• This historic migration was akin—and perhaps even larger—to the magnanimity of the annual Serengeti wildebeest migration.
  — National Geographic, 4 May 2018
• Not strictly out of magnanimity but out of necessity, functional societies must demonstrate the capacity to move beyond the sins of the past.
  — Judson Berger, National Review, 24 Apr. 2021
• To show the magnanimity of its sponsors, most nations would get the vaccine free despite the availability of aid money, though this would mean Covax lacked any cash flow of its own to secure production commitments.
  — WSJ, 21 May 2021
• Even though the American narrative was about magnanimity and big-heartedness, in fact the Japanese government was being charged the cost of the occupation.
  — Todd Pitock, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2017

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