The degree of disloyalty is compounded when delivered by "mixed-blood" Aboriginal writers, who are, after all, the wayward children of the benevolent nation.
"Altruism is a benevolent state of mind.
"In my judgment, the best course of action is to persuade Germany to choose between becoming a more benevolent leading nation, or leaving the euro.
Just as your nation is a laboratory for a benevolent autocracy, our nation is a laboratory for a benevolent innovacracy.
For while Haile Selassie liked to think of himself as an enlightened ruler - the benevolent father of his nation - the reality was that the Lion of Judah lived in autocratic splendour, ignoring both the crucial need for land reform and the poverty of his people.
For the generals, who have held power for more than four decades in Myanmar, the restrictions on aid and how it is distributed are part of their overriding priority of showing who is in control and of cultivating the image that they alone are the nation's benevolent providers.
No nation is more understanding of what the Jews have suffered, and more committed to ensuring it never happens again, than America, the most benevolent, caring, and compassionate nation on earth.
The sight of Gordon's scarred back was a visual argument for unifying the Union against the dehumanizing violence of the Confederacy; it imagines the Union-as-nation as a benevolent one that fought because it cared.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wore his new persona as the tough but benevolent grandfather of a nervous nation when he took office tonight, forgoing any lofty promises of peace and prosperity in the face of a deepening conflict with the Palestinians.
The benevolent intention to spare the nation from grief moves pragmatically liberal journalists at prestigious publications to draw the parameters of political conversation such that Mr Boehner's connections to special interests come up a bit more often than Ms Pelosi's do.(Photo credit: AFP).
