Example sentences for: magnanimity

How can you use “magnanimity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Is it entirely magnanimity in victory?

  • This is a night of vindication for them, not a night of magnanimity.

  • In Spain, El País said that Ankara would be committing "a grave error" if it carries out the death penalty against Ocalan, since it has "an historic opportunity to exercise magnanimity and to lay the foundations of a reconciliation with the Kurds."

  • Well before then, Johnson's political agenda moves to front and center, best revealed in a lengthy section lauding the minimalist economic and political philosophy of Calvin Coolidge (perhaps his favorite American president) and in another passage concerning Norman Rockwell, whose representations of the "magnanimity of Middle America" send Johnson into raptures: "It is now possible to predict his [Rockwell's] emergence as an Old Master, like the Dutch genre painters, especially Jan Steen, or the English moralist William Hogarth."

  • Any time I find myself agreeing with Hatch and Novak I grab my wallet, and the cynic in me says this magnanimity may have been arrived at only after much jujitsu with public opinion polls.


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