Sentence examples for benevolent gesture from inspiring English sources

All over India there are images of the man, right arm raised in the benevolent gesture of good fortune.

To those who view Jazz at Lincoln Center, incompletely, as a repository of the past, his inclusion might have seemed a benevolent gesture from a reluctant institution.

It was marketed as a benevolent gesture to those who could not see the play in London, but even as someone who queued for at least four Harry Potter books, it was hard to imagine kids lining up for screeds of stage directions.

The first New Deal wasn't handed down by Franklin Roosevelt as a benevolent gesture.

The Weeknd's benevolent gesture follows his reported $50,000 donation to University of Toronto in an effort to help the school develop an Ethiopic Studies program.

When the state senator retired, he worked with his successor to introduce and win passage of legislation that allowed a "safe harbor" for people to offer "benevolent gestures expressing sympathy or a general sense of benevolence," said Professor Cohen, who has written extensively on the intersection of law and apologies.

This donation is just one a few benevolent gestures Kardashian recently offered up to deserving organizations.

Watch above as Zaidi roams Islamabad, cleaning car windows, buying ice cream for guards and performing all manner of benevolent gestures.

4. Benevolent dictators are benevolent.

"I thought it was a rather beautiful gesture to give this collection away, benevolent and philanthropic.

FOR DISSIDENT ARTIST'S FINE In the days since the Chinese government delivered a punitive $2.4 million tax bill to the artist Ai Weiwei, thousands of people have responded by donating money in a gesture that is at once benevolent and subversive.