magnanimous

• “Their answer is for a platonic oligarchy of a rich class which in magnanimous good will is supposed to provide "jobs" for the middle class.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Behzad Mohit: The U.S. Tea Party and General Strikes in Europe -- The Outrage of the Middle Class

• “He is, in short, magnanimous (for instance, he forgives his enemies their offences).”

  The Happiness of Others

• “Dr. Weizman, in magnanimous terms, said, "I want nothing for myself, but the Jews are interested in re-establishing in Palestine a cultural home, a religious home, and we would be glad to have the support of the Allies, particularly the British, in our ambition.”

  Palestine in Retrospect and Prospect

• “Mighty of heart, mighty of mind -- "magnanimous" -- to be this, is, indeed, to be great in life; to become this increasingly, is, indeed, to "advance in life," -- in life itself -- not in the trappings of it.”

  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American

• “PBS and NPR receive buckets of dough from big advertisers, who these days are known as magnanimous "sponsors.”

  Reinventing The News Business Requires A Little Imagination - Publishing 2.0

• “Would our city leaders be this magnanimous were the victims black and the attackers white?”

  CHS Race Attacks Meeting on TV at cvillenews.com

• “He became uneasily conscious his own part in it could not be overlooked, that he was doing something that evilly-disposed persons might even call magnanimous or philanthropic.”

  Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker

• “Such an eulogium at such a time is a wonderful instance of loving forbearance with a true-hearted follower's weakness, and of a desire which, in a man, we should call magnanimous, to shield John's character from depreciation on account of his message.”

  Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII

• “But if they truly believe that it will do for humanity what is claimed for it, I do not see why it should be called magnanimous for a woman to say, I yield to man just what he has always asserted as his, the right to rule.”

  History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II

• “In consequence of this refusal -- called magnanimous by contemporary writers -- to accept his property under such conditions, the estates were detained from him for a considerable time longer.”

  PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete

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