Sentence examples similar to benign men from inspiring English sources

The local landlord, a wise, benign man, but — shudder — a progressive, is missing, presumed drowned.

As serious as he is about spreading the message of his environmental work, Bartholomew I is a genial, benign man who inspires warmth and attention.

The new film follows a young couple whose romance suddenly turns violent when a benign man gradually becomes vicious and intransigent".As in my previous films, Forushande addresses how social challenges can propel the downfall of some people," Farhadi told Variety.

In Love Actually, Hugh Grant's PM is a politician with a heart of gold, a noble and essentially benign man, a ridiculously neutered conception of the office which apparently Ireland's state leader watched and decided was good.

Not only 60 NET lesions were detected but also 31 benign MEN-associated lesions.

The impulse seems essentially benign: these men want to have an inkling of what their partners will experience and, if it helps them offer support, why not?

In the Hippocratic text Airs, Waters, Places, the soul is thought of as the place of courage or, as the case may be, its opposite: in the case of lowland inhabitants, courage and endurance are not in their souls by nature, but must be instilled by law (ch. 23); similarly in benign climates, men are fleshy, ill-jointed, moist, without endurance and weak in soul (ch. 24).

Shaw had previously supported gradual democratic change toward socialism, but now he saw more hope in government by benign strong men.

But not, she says, in a benign, bearded man.

With respect to cancers and inherited afflictions, natural radiation is no more benign than man-made radiation.

All the better-known aspects of his personality – his irritable conceit and pugnacity – had drained away to give us a benign, forgetful man in a wheelchair.