Sentence examples for altogether benign from inspiring English sources

The goat-gut microorganisms, she explained, "aren't altogether benign".

Observers of the Kansas board's decision should remember that intelligent design is not an altogether benign concept.

Year by year more evidence is accumulating that artificial light is not altogether benign, as has long been assumed, but rather has significant negative effects on the environment.

If imposing blindness is a good way of bringing out the dark side of human beings for the purposes of fiction, why shouldn't cinemagoers suspect that actual loss of sight might arouse feelings not altogether benign?

It depicts his relations with Malcolm X (portrayed as an altogether benign figure) and other members of the Nation of Islam, three of his four wives, and a host of friends.

Over the past few years, the food industry has embarked on an operation it dubs "clean label", with the goal of removing the most glaring industrial ingredients and additives, replacing them with substitutes that sound altogether more benign.

Reread later in life, they became a warming antidote to the altogether less benign struggles I experienced as a correspondent for this newspaper in Moscow during the closing years of the cold war.

There is a breath of Humbert Humbert about Erik, and given the reader's natural suspicion of a man who abducts his little girl it feels at first as if this story will develop along a sinister path, but Gaige's lonely, loving fantasist is an altogether more benign creation.

He argues that the Fed was wrong to cut interest rates so much, because much of the deflationary pressure was of an altogether more benign sort: a reduction in overall prices caused by rapid technological change, improvements in the terms of trade and other factors.

We screened altogether 131 benign mesenchymal tumours, but no mutations were identified.

The most frequent lesions encountered in the mediastinum are thymoma, neurogenic tumours and benign cysts, altogether representing 60% of patients with mediastinal masses [1].