Sentence examples for benign times from inspiring English sources

"The whole politics of Blair and Cameron looks like the product of more benign times".

IN BENIGN times Britain could smile remotely on its far-flung territories, sending the odd royal to fly the Union Flag.

The book's sense of the exquisite is just as evident in the vision of this young lover's fate in Nazi Germany -- he went to it "wearing his dress clothes, a white silk scarf around his neck, a white rose pinned above the yellow star" -- as it is seductively conjuring benign times.

Central and Eastern European countries know that the twists of history have not ended, that seemingly benign times can quickly turn ominous.

"What I say in the book is that when I ran with Goldman Sachs, even during benign times, I had felt the compensation in the industry seemed out of whack, and I would occasionally go off in partners meetings and say something to the effect, 'I hope you guys all understand,' and remind them, 'people don't like you.

Selection in utero implies, therefore, that gestations just above the criterion in benign times would end in more stressful times.

Ireland's modern growth came at a relatively benign time in the global economy.

It's a benign time of day to be in a church, or any public space open to the evening.

Even casual readers are likely to recall that the standard industry line now is that the industry had only brief experience with such lending and only in benign economic times.

This lot are benign, good-time idiots.

"We were living in a very benign economic time.