When Ms. Deen was simply a benign, sassy television personality, her personal politics and racial attitudes never became an issue.
This "cult of personality" is not benign.
It looks like great fun to do, but lines like "I'm sure there are 100s and 1000s all over the place", and a frankly unsettling turn from Dawn French as a benign dimwit with a multiple personality disorder, left me completely cold.
Personality, home environment, relatively benign gaps in world knowledge — even genetic predispositions — seem to all play a part in test results.
In a totally benign and predictable world, character, flair, personality, intellect, judgment, and the ability to care would become totally redundant.
Thus, positive and negative experiences might be processed differently by a person with a highly functional dopaminergic system when they are stressed or not, leading to different personality profiles under stressful compared to benign circumstances.
The rapper, singer, actress and television personality towers over the movie, a stern but benign fortress of maternal common sense and wisdom.
As a sobering classic drama wrapped in a theme-park interactive attraction, the show exhibits symptoms of multiple personality disorder, but skillful integration makes the diagnosis benign — and thoroughly engaging.
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.
