Floating voter-grabbing potential: 6/10 The Christian party/Christian Peoples Alliance party Probably the worst political broadcast of all time, this musak-drenched cheapocast stars George Hargreaves (a smiley preacher with a Brian wayden-ish way of talking) and Alan Craig (who comes across like a benign Latin master).
Its one-sided vision shows freed and about-to-be-freed slaves cleaving to their benign white masters and loyally serving the Confederate army.
And his Prospero, in Peter Hall's Tempest (1988), was no benign old school-master, but an angry, embittered exile who had clearly dabbled in black magic, and at whose command graves had plausibly opened.
New Labour may, in the grand historical scheme of things, have been a relatively benign set of masters, but it will be remembered for putting into place the machinery for a security state whose power and intrusiveness will dwarf anything we have hitherto experienced.
Tino will safely guide you to yellow eyelash vipers, and have you taste and smell the beguiling Noni fruits, get even an arachnophobe comfortable with a giant but benign, green and gold, master weaver orb spider, and temporarily tattoo you all with a unifying icon made from disappearing ink of yet another crazy fruit.
In Vidal's account, F.D.R. doesn't merely have to be a political master "whose vast depths of benign insincerity could never be entirely plumbed by any mere mortal," but as malign as the despots he helped bring down.
They had once been benign fraternities, but they had evolved, and now eighteen-year-olds who had mastered the swagger of American rap videos were undergoing secret initiations that sometimes left one or two of them dead on Odim Hill.
Steichen saw everything from his Olympian perch, the master of all he surveyed, high and low, oddly and episodically unreflective, a restless, benign, flawed perfectionist.
More benign views of schooners sailing in local waters, like the 1860's portrait of a graceful two-master, Moonlight, are also the work of unidentified artists.
