Sentence examples for benign and friendly from inspiring English sources

While most reality contests pump up backstage rivalries, "Drag Race" is strangely benign and friendly, Alessandra Stanley writes.

Thus far, it has been a benign and friendly diversion, but I fear that our relationship is beginning to fray and that it is bringing out the curmudgeonly worst in me.

While most people on the internet may be benign and friendly, you have to be aware of the possibility of people using chat rooms, social media, and other websites to collect information that could lead to physical harm at your place of employment or at home.

John in Lytham: From looking benign and relatively friendly the wicket now looks a bit of a minefield.

As the nanorevolution in the realms of medical and technological applications unfolds, it is imperative to develop environmentally benign and biologically friendly green chemical processes (Studer et al. 2010).

These applications require processes that are green, environmentally benign, and eco-friendly.

Equal parts skilled journalist and clever polemicist--and an unabashed leftist liberal to boot--the 38-year-old Klein is providing an intellectual arsenal for those who would like to replace today's capitalist robber barons with something apparently more benign and people-friendly, and would celebrate what they see as the common good over the grubby business of making a profit.

As colonial overseers, the US proved relatively benign and a mostly friendly partnership emerged, with Filipinos very much in the junior position.

While water is the most benign, environmentally friendly and importantly cheap solvent, it provides limited impact on biomass deconstruction under mild pretreatment temperatures of ≤ 100°C unless used in conjunction with concentrated mineral acids [ 4, 5].

Bayer is almost six-five, and often assumes the benign expression of a large and friendly older brother.

The development of more benign, environmentally friendly processes with less hazardous solvents is currently the major focus of a wide variety of research activities.