Observe people with a slightly amused but benevolent look, as if you find their behavior interesting.
He seems to have invented the palace-balcony scene: the benevolent ruler looks down on admiring subjects, who adopt a posture of deference.
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.
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.
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.
Nudity somehow seems to imply that anything could happen, but the New York Times is committed to telling its readers that many things will not happen, because the world is under control, benevolent people are looking out for us, the situation is not as bad as we tend to think, and while problems do exist, they can be solved by wise rulers.
Mendelsohn's comparison of Wood the critic to a priest of high literature is fantastic: "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".
She has one excellent gag line, after Dorothy disclaims witchy status: pointing at Toto, Glinda inquires, "Well, is that the witch?" This joke apart, she spends the scene looking generally benevolent and loving and rather too heavily powdered.
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.
So in mildly supporting Facebook's efforts here, Apple looks benevolent and smart (while shaking their head and laughing).
