Sentence examples for benevolent host from inspiring English sources

Bono was like a benevolent host, making everyone at home, a little comfortably grandiose.

In every TV frame and newspaper photograph the logo of Tata Steel (and its tagline, "Values Stronger Than Steel") loomed, a benign, benevolent host.

Since 1993, Domingo has cast himself as opera's benevolent Svengali, hosting a competition that goes around the world to a different city each year, and which promises an experience that allows for more than the preparation of a mere handful of prize songs.

At the show, Michael was a benevolent, riled-up host.

Always the benevolent if devilish host, Robert Wilson roamed about the ample space making everyone feel right at home.

One of those opportunities had taken place earlier in the day, when Miami's most benevolent DJ played host to a coterie of 78 kids from Madison Middle School, who spent the afternoon gorging on pizza and swimming in the estate's way cool pool, then leaving with an iPod of their very own.

The legislation already includes language that exempts broad classes of religious institutions and private benevolent organizations from hosting or recognizing gay ceremonies, while indemnifying such institutions from lawsuits.

In Egypt there was an assumption of cosmic order guaranteed by a host of benevolent gods.

For a night of his songs at Lincoln Center, in 2010, in the window-walled Allen Room concert space above Columbus Circle, Michael wore sneakers and a jacket and played the piano and sang alongside distinguished guests, telling stories between songs; he was a benevolent but self-effacing host, both comfortable in that grand space and not puffed-up about it.

They see him, naturally enough it must be admitted, as a public menace to the local youth, to whom he deals drugs with the benevolent charity of a kindly host dispensing chocolates at a children's birthday party.

4. Benevolent dictators are benevolent.