He always showed a wonderful degree of sportsmanship and in victory or defeat was magnanimous to the other side.But despite his disappointment, McCallion was more than magnanimous in defeat.It was magnanimous of Mr Beattie to accept responsibility for the failures in our power supply.Matilda's inability to be magnanimous in victory had cost the country another 12 years of civil war.The tragic blunders of the era of reconstruction came from the lack of such magnanimous politics.His was a perfectly balanced personality - tolerant, truthful, perspicuous and magnanimous .