The history of the cinema pivots on the discovery, by critics who were themselves future filmmakers, that movies made in Hollywood could be works of art of the same moment and merit as those made independently or under the (ostensibly more benign or less-controlling) hand of European producers.
International politics have become much more benign, or at least less savage.
It is just there, more or less benign, like lint or leaf litter.
In his own case, however, such a passion is (more or less) benign.
Evie's mother has responded with experimental disarray: macrobiotic diets, group therapy, strange new partners, and more or less benign parental neglect.
Many respondents regarded cannabis use as more or less benign compared with the heroin and crack cocaine habits that other service users presented with.
The ruling authority doesn't have to be dictatorial; the international protectorate over Bosnia was a more or less benign case of imposing inter-communal peace.
Away from the world for August, in a house without Internet or television and only spotty, the-satellite-must-be-passing-over phone reception, I was, until Wednesday, thinking more or less benign thoughts about gun owners, if not guns.
Given the often horrific nature of the old regime, and the common interest that the people, including the peasants, might have had with the more or less benign new regime, or at least with the promise of modernization, why did they resist so fiercely?
Populated largely by adults who were fleeing the responsibilities of adulthood, bohemia supplied new justifications for the same old failures of parenthood that Guggenheim had endured herself: the Vails' son and daughter, Sindbad and Pegeen, seem to have suffered from a more or less benign neglect even before their mother ran off with another man.
