Fraser's initially benign comments to Channel Nine's Today program about the 20-year-old's bizarre second-set performance escalated into a series of remarks aimed at the heritage of Kyrgios and compatriot Bernard Tomic.
Instead there are occasional, relatively benign comments from lifelong parishioners that indicate discomfort with the immigrants and the changes they have brought — the same sorts of remarks that established populations have been making about newcomers, and older people have been making about younger ones, for generations.
Sibling rivalries can be initiated by seemingly benign comments such as these.
Benign comments or constructive criticism threaten their fragile self-esteem and can trigger anger.
Ironically, in this malicious environment, even my fairly distributed and benign comments will be misconstrued, as invariably occurs when one wades into hotly debated holy wars.
They both went on to express concern that deeming such "benign" comments as harassment would have a chilling effect on people being friendly in public and unfairly stigmatize men genuinely "approaching" women they are interested in.
And if this can also start a conversation on the institutional misunderstanding of entirely benign celebrity comments, then I'm sure we'll all be the richer for it.
Written in 1792 for his first triumphant tour of England, Haydn's Symphony No. 98 came after intermission and served as a benign and wry comment on the youthful pieces before it.
For instance, prices on the default swaps for Treasuries rose almost 25 percent over four days in mid-May in reaction to some relatively benign and perfunctory comments by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Hostile Envy and Benign Envy The dousing comments in response to shared joyous news, the strange reticence by certain "friends" after good fortune smiles on you and the ugly comments by trolls on twitter are all examples of hostile envy.
