Sentence examples for benign role from inspiring English sources

Kipling casts the wolves in a benign role in The Jungle Book, as the saviours of Mowgli.

Music plays a more benign role in the National Theater's bouncy revival of Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops To Conquer," which opened on Tuesday night.

Like the studio support system in its more benign role, mothers were there to nurture and protect, but their authority has dwindled as movies have become more fragmented, more socially disconnected, divided between Hollywood action blockbusters on the one hand and quirky independent films on the other.

It has all the parts of a Clifford Odets or William Saroyan play from the nineteen-thirties: the collision of ethnicities, the comedy of the muted man in the noisy city, the baffling but eventually benign role of the subway — a night passed in Central Park was cold, certainly, but not brutal, and the policeman on the train was a reliable friend.

Meanwhile, beautiful and brilliant divas, now entering their middle years, are relishing the chance to play the towering villains of fairytale: Helena Bonham Carter threw herself into the screeching termagancy of the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland (again, a huge box office success) and she'll be appearing next year in Disney's new Cinderella, this time in the benign role of the fairy godmother.

Taking a benign role might be in the Turks' interests: Were Turkish Kurds to see their Iraqi counterparts get get a strong role in a postwar Iraqi government, it could lessen separatist pressure, showing the benefits of working within a democratic state.

But Mr. Bigelow also originated benign roles, including the cheerful tuba in Robbins's "Fanfare" and in works by other choreographers.

The results suggest that Trump wins the most plaudits when fulfilling the presidency's more benign roles, such as commemorating historical events, urging caution amid disasters, and celebrating holidays.

The effect has not been entirely benign: a role in the spectacular blowup of a Colorado bank and millions of losses for grain giant Cargill, whose mix-up with this father-son team has been kept quiet until recently by a gag order.

The politics of open source contribution vie with the benign dictator leader role, where a natural and understandable inclination to incorporate as much of the feature set into the platform core conflicts with the need to maintain incentives for participation by a wider, more scalable pool of talent.

America may be the world's dominant super-power, and according to its own lights uniquely benign in that role, but the world it seeks to dominate is proving remarkably resistant to that supposedly benign dominance.