Sentence examples for benevolent figure from inspiring English sources

Mab is a mischievous but basically benevolent figure.

In his mind, God was a benevolent figure and the afterlife held no fear for him.

Once a threatening autocrat, Steinbrenner is a more benevolent figure now, gently encouraging the players — "Keep going, keep swinging the bat," he told Teixeira — while still commanding respect.

Still, she perceived Mr. Gore as a benevolent figure and decided what he was saying was this: "Everything will be O.K. I'll take care of it.

All the workers spoken to remembered Mr. Mayor as a benevolent figure, who always had a kind word and was opposed to forced overtime.

"The funny thing with people, they consider Noah to be a benevolent figure because he looked after the animals: 'Awww, Noah.

The Angel Father, and eventually an Angel Mother, too, are benevolent figures from heaven who left Opal a book full of names she needed to learn; it was from these books that the precocious names of her pets were drawn.

Although he was unimpressed with the image of the ideal Confucian ruler as a benevolent father figure, he nevertheless appreciated the literary grace of the Confucianists and particularly the Confucian emphasis on ritual, which complemented his religious interests.

You play a benevolent ghost figure who must subtly manipulate a mother, father and son into making compromises for one another.

He meets with the Giver, a weary though benevolent grandfather figure, who bestows upon Jonas memories of the world and Elsewhere, when and where colors, passions, love, hate, and war exist.

A former nightclub dancer, whose stage name was Ruby the Heartstealer, she denies having any kind of sexual relations with him and says the thousands of euros he gave her were merely the act of a benevolent paternal figure.