In fact, The Blind Side, just like this summer's The Help, reignited the ongoing debate about films featuring benevolent white heroes who come along to help needy black victims.
Fans of Banksy, the British street artist, will get a kick out of the slideshow of appropriated images below, each curiously featuring Tom Hanks' benevolent visage.
Some films delve deeply into fantasy, like the Czech feature "Kitty Mama," whose title character is a benevolent witch, and the German feature "Laura's Star and the Dream Monsters," above, about a girl and her brother inside the boy's dreamscape.
Among the many features of his benevolent rule were his construction of a sailors' home and the Queen's Hospital in Honolulu in 1860 to provide free medical care for Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians.
"Borstal Boy," filmed in Ireland for a mere $1.8 million and featuring Michael York as a benevolent jailer and the American actor Shawn Hatosy as the young Behan, is what has come of Mr. Sheridan's abiding fascination.
Columbia hopes that the benevolent aims of the institution, and its modern campus featuring open spaces that local residents can enjoy, will eventually assuage local concerns.
According to this theory, sexism has two faces: hostile sexism, constituted by all the extreme features that may arise, less acceptance and sanction; and benevolent sexism, constituted by features that sustain gender inequality and women subordination but that are categorized as prosocial and may even be honored (9– 12).
It's almost as if a benevolent fairy at Google flipped a switch and turned the feature back on, knowing it would make all of us Canadian amateur hackers very happy.
At least Clyde hasn't been handed a hemlock cocktail, tarred and feathered, or invited to a big bonfire cookout featuring Roasted Author, like so many of his benevolent predecessors who crossed The Powers That Be.
When introduced to a neighbourhood meeting with an oil lease to sell, "He faced them now, a portly person in a comfortable serge suit, his features serious but kindly, and speaking to them in a benevolent, almost fatherly voice".
