Many respondents regarded cannabis use as more or less benign compared with the heroin and crack cocaine habits that other service users presented with.
At practice and during games, Paterno's image as a coach is less benign.
But there is the distinct possibility that you saw something less benign, as your own doubts suggest.
What's more, the economic climate – notwithstanding the emergence of China, India and Brazil as economic superpowers – is less benign than it was in the 1950s and 60s.
Other risks were less benign, as I found when I was the ground officer for a pilot who radioed, "My skin feels like it's crawling".
As examples of the less benign -- and worrisome -- side of the U.S. effort, Volman cites the raids on Somalia, the military presence in Djibouti (acknowledged by DoD in 2002 as a launching pad for antiterrorism operations), and the administration's request for more funding for arms sales to Algeria, Angola, Nigeria, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, and Sao Tome.
The Patti LuPone we meet in these pages has earned her reputation as a diva (in the benign sense) through her big talent, willingness to take risks and sheer persistence, and her reputation as a diva (in the less benign sense) more out of nerves, actorly integrity and ill fortune than blinkered egotism.
But some effects of filter bubbles can be less benign, such as when online shoppers are offered different prices based on data collected about them without their knowledge or consent.
Less benign factors are at work as well.
Trade unions and social democratic parties were part of a powerful backlash that included less benign movements such as communism and fascism.
