They are men with families, wives, and even some benevolent feelings about their American foe.
Your benevolent feelings toward the cop who doored you are neither here nor there.
Otherwise, you won't need Ecstasy or any other of those fashionable drugs said to generate warm, fuzzy and benevolent feelings.
One can nourish benevolent feelings towards the rest of humanity in general, and work for its good - and can appropriately expect from most of one's acquaintanceships a mutuality of pleasure and usefulness - while at the same time enjoying true friendship, in Aristotle's sense, with just one or some others.
Chief among its faults is that benevolent feelings evolved to apply only to members of our own group.
I'm feeling benevolent toward all life, lying there, listening to the tumbrel of running water inside and outside the room, and the whoomp of my own pulse.
Feelings of altruism, jealousy, etc. are ignored in order not to make the allocation of resources depend on the contingent distribution of benevolent and malevolent feelings among the population (see e.g. Goodin 1986, Harsanyi 1982).
Late last month, however, Mr. Napier was not feeling quite so benevolent toward these producers.
Written by Kipling in 1904, "They" is remarkable for its depth of feeling, and its benevolent ghosts drawn out of the ether by yearning and grief.
But although we cannot feel affections or passions at will, we are naturally fitted to feeling particular affections, including benevolent ones, under particular circumstances.
