Sentence examples for Benevolent act from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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).

The rising singer-songwriter-producer Bruno Mars sings a stirring hook, but Mr. McCoy, in between cataloging the benevolent acts he'd undertake if he were rich, slips in a quick potshot: "It's been a couple months that I been single, so/ You can call me Travie Claus, minus the ho-ho".

This question is normative, but there is also the question of moral psychology raised by Smith: Is it reasonable to expect benevolent acts from the business community?

I guess that tallies if you consider sitting around doing fuck all and having lots of sex to be benevolent acts.

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.

This group of benevolent entrepreneurs acts, based on the values and value mission that believe in them, to initiative and innovate social security to satisfy the needs of the society.