Sentence examples for benign success from inspiring English sources

Anyone can be a benign success".

Any fool can be a benign success".

"Better a spectacular failure, than a benign success," runs the headstone inscription on the grave of Malcolm McLaren.

Having dropped out of art school – McLaren said the experience taught him "that it is better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success" – he made a first foray into music management in the early 70s after convincing the New York Dolls to employ him as manager.

Living with my hands gently bound by bibliomancy made me remember why I love art so goddamn much: its failures are benign, and its successes can live thousands of years.

We specifically investigated effects of low vs. standard food quality (i.e. stressful vs. benign environments) on reproductive success of cross pairs between beetles from the contrasting female and male selection histories to assess gender effects driving fitness.

The literature supports the feasibility of EACP for malignant and benign biliary obstruction, with high success rates and improving safety profile with regard to significant complications.

But it does depend for its practical success on providing benign farm conditions with reliable and plentiful supplies of high-quality feed (Burton n.d)., so almost all the lambs can survive and prosper.

13 Some studies have had some success in discriminating benign from malignant conditions in the thyroid gland as well as predicting the biological behavior and tumor aggressiveness of primary thyroid malignancy by measuring the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax).

However, in this paper quantitative and qualitative analyses of 333 publicized and celebrated AMBER Alert "successes" suggest AMBER Alerts rarely result in the retrieval of abducted children from clearly "life-threatening" situations, and that most of the publicized successes involved relatively benign abductors and unthreatening circumstances.

Singapore, with a population of 3 million, has proved the success of combining a benign but autocratic political rein with the friendly face of a capitalist economy.