Bruschi questioned Ochocinco's work ethic and knowledge of the playbook based solely on a benign bit of cyberspace flotsam.
He'd have been called a 'thug', been on the receiving end of vile racist slurs and far, far worse, as Richard Sherman was after last year's NFC Championship game when a fairly benign bit of boasting and post-game exuberance went viral.
"It's sometimes quite hard to understand what motivates the very vocal minority that gets so upset about this apparently benign bit of moderately helpful treatment," he said.
All the players were dismayed to see a bit of benign weather for the early starters because they knew the worst was forecast to arrive during their own rounds.
In the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, perhaps Egypt could benefit from a bit of benign neglect, as far as its American audience is concerned.
Instead of thinking of them as a passing trend, people like Muko remind us that any strange niche can be transformed into something actually interesting when done with care, creativity and a bit of benign psychosis. .
Unless something breaks the page and causes it to stop loading, the hassle-factor and inertia outweigh good security policy, stop it from being changed or removed, and little bits of seemingly benign code persist over time on tens of thousands of websites.
She was a star, that is, at a time when make-believe was the order of the day, and movie audiences didn't much care whether what was being put over on them was benign or, maybe, a little bit nasty.
They may also find that the atmosphere of benign tedium is tinged with a bit of sadness, since Clifford speaks in the voice of John Ritter, who died suddenly last year.
