Sentence examples for A benevolent act from inspiring English sources

If we performed a benevolent act, La Rochefoucauld suggested, we did so in order to stoke our vanity or to seek a return of favor.

RIO DE JANEIRO — From another president, a Christmas decree relaxing eligibility rules for nonviolent criminals seeking pardons might have been viewed as a benevolent act.

Though Harold sets out for personal reasons, the walk is conceived as a benevolent act: "He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others".

And, in a campaign in which the discussion of social issues has been astonishingly retrograde, Macron's was the only voice solidly situated in the twenty-first century: he believed in a pluralist France, and that colonialism was not a benevolent act wherein the French "bestowed" their culture on the peoples of Africa but, rather, a crime.

But VICE News has learned that the release of 217 Yazidis on April 4 was far from a benevolent act.

To some, this may look like a benevolent act, but it is purely a move to control the market.

Certainly, Dunham sees her self-exposure as a benevolent feminist act: "There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman," she writes.

Gratitude as an emotion may involve propositional content (e.g., that benefactor R performed some benevolent act for me), and may represent its target as being a certain way (e.g., benefactor R is benevolent, brave, cares about me).

Whether this was a confirmation of miracles, the work of evil mind control, or the most benevolent act of charity imaginable, I just don't know, but I found myself inspired by his inner beauty and/or her sacrifice.

For several young artists the benevolent act of making communal art has become part of the reason for doing it.

How can the benevolent act of sharing water, the source of life, undertaken by this Pakistani Christian woman toward her Pakistani Muslim co-worker lead to a death sentence?