I still fear somewhat for TMS, this wouldn't be the first time that a reassuring blog was written when intentions were less benevolent (look at pretty much anything Roger Mosey has ever written), but I am somewhat reassured by the apparent thought that has gone into the piece.
Observe people with a slightly amused but benevolent look, as if you find their behavior interesting.
The sculpture captures a benevolent-looking Mr. Scott, head tilted up and gazing skyward.
In another account, a benevolent-looking grandfather tells how, even in the comfort of an Allied field hospital, he clutched his knife, in case his hard-won freedom was threatened.
If you want benevolent employers, look no further than the London merchants Charles and Ned Cheeryble, the l ovable twins who took on Nicholas Nickleby in Cavalcanti's 1947 Ealing film of the Dickens novel.
Eshu, a god of the Yoruba of Nigeria, for example, is looked upon as a protective, benevolent spirit as well as a spirit with an evil power that may be directed toward one's enemies.
He seems to have invented the palace-balcony scene: the benevolent ruler looks down on admiring subjects, who adopt a posture of deference.
They felt the ghosts were benevolent and looked after the family.
"Off with their heads!" she decries so consistently that she makes the Queen of Hearts look benevolent.
Like a benevolent priest silently looking over a wayward congregation every Sunday morning, Wood understands the failings of his subjects, and forgives them in the name of a higher authority.
On the big picture, Europe's cultural conservatives are right: Mass immigration really has left the Continent more divided than enriched, Islam and liberal democracy have not yet proven natural bedfellows and the dream of a postnational, postpatriotic European Union governed by a benevolent ruling elite looks more like a folly every day.
