Sentence examples for benevolent men from inspiring English sources

All were survived by Thomas, who remained virtually a relic of the bygone Colonial era and whom his obituarist in the Newport Mercury honoured as one of the century's most humane and benevolent men.

He is a benevolent man.

A benevolent man he was a major benefactor to many charities.

A pious and benevolent man with a keen interest in state affairs, he favoured reform and appointed able grand viziers to whom he entrusted wide powers.

It too begins by citing the benevolent person as an ethical paradigm, but here the opening move is to establish, by analogy, the attitude of the filial son toward his parents as a model for that of the benevolent man toward society: "The benevolent person's planning on behalf of the world, to give an analogy, is in no respect different from the filial son's planning on behalf of his parents".

There is this fantastic story of a benevolent man who travels to your house and brings your hearts' desires for the cookies you left behind as an offering.

But, consider, for example, studies which reveal that exposure to "benevolent sexists," men who believe that their role is to be strong providers dealing with the corruption of the big, bad, dangerous world and women's roles as virtuous, upstanding nurturers in need of protection (the very definition of Complementarianism), wreaks all kinds of havoc on girls and women's success in the workplace.

For instance, in Situation Hopeless… But Not Serious (adapted from Robert Shaw's novel The Hiding Place), two RAF aircrew shot down over Germany during the second world war are hidden in a cellar by an apparently benevolent old man who keeps them there as pets, pretending the war has continued into the 1950s.

In Chinese historical tradition Wenwang was depicted as intelligent and benevolent, a man of virtue who won popularity among his contemporaries and expanded the realm of the Zhou.

Society held together, authority was firm and essentially benevolent, each man had a role, each woman could choose to stay home if she wanted, and Catherine Deneuve was in every other movie.

Charles Dickens "An honest, affectionate, benevolent, loving man... who had fought the battles of his life bravely and truly, doing his whole great duty without fear, though not without much unjust reproach".