Plenty of those reading this may tend to view "Europe" in a benevolent light.
Sing 'Okie!' ") I mentioned reading a recent complaint by Hazel Smith, a chirpy, generally benevolent gossip columnist in Country Music, that Merle sang what he wanted to sing, instead of his hits.
At times, her stories read like benevolent gossip, and, unlike much of the writing that was emerging then, they were not anti-Soviet; rather, they were profoundly un-Soviet.
(Or, you know, if you've been reading Dave Eggers's "The Circle," which depicts a less-than-benevolent Google-like monopoly, then you might be thinking something more along the lines of "today, American Idol – tomorrow, the world!" But I'm not going to go there yet).
Riboud discussed "Henri" and "Bob" in our interview at his Paris apartment overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens, describing Cartier-Bresson as a "benevolent dictator", who told him what to read and photograph, as a means of interpreting the world.
The researchers found that those who had completed at least the first book in the trilogy had "stronger ambivalent, hostile, and benevolent sexist attitudes than those who did not read books in the trilogy".
They find in their new paper Sexist Attitudes Among Emerging Adult Women Readers of Fifty Shades Fiction that women who had read the book had higher levels of "ambivalent, benevolent, and hostile sexism".
Zimride – a startup with a tagline that reads "A Carpool Community" – sounds exactly like the sort of benevolent Web 2.0 service that will never make a cent.
But that doesn't make us any less eager to read about the interior designer's halfhearted affair, Lord Henry's ridiculous but often benevolent pomposity, Rose's touching obliviousness to her own developing affair of the heart.
We like his benevolent approach to ensuring that the good people of Wheeling (and any lucky visitors) always have something to read.
