Sentence examples similar to benign work from inspiring English sources

By contrast, if they felt benign envy they worked harder.

Their characters, named Abbi and Ilana, are twenty-something stoners in New York — broke, horny, heedless, daffy, mostly benign, occasionally brilliant — who work crappy jobs, bump around town, get into mischief, and, with genial vulgarity and dirtbag charm, accidentally complicate their lives.

The two women, as Nick Paumgarten writes in this week's issue, play "twenty-something stoners in New York — broke, horny, heedless, daffy, mostly benign, occasionally brilliant — who work crappy jobs, bump around town, get into mischief, and, with genial vulgarity and dirtbag charm, accidentally complicate their lives".

The earnest Americans who roamed the country doing U.S.A.I.D.'s good works had a benign, roly-poly appearance, as if they lived on jam and honey.

When I asked her a benign question about what she'd learned working for the Administration, she said, half-jokingly, that she had no concise answer "other than 'Don't trust the press.' " If she doesn't like a question, she squints, pauses, and then parses it into as gentle a query as possible.

Those measurements suggested that the envy felt by the study participants resembled benign envy more than its nastier counterpart.

Sexual imagery, not always benign, has figured in a good deal of his work.

In the thirteen years that Avedon has been at Harper's Bazaar, working most of the time under Brodovitch's benign and exquisitely perceptive eye, he has been permitted the full exercise of his imaginative talent, even — or perhaps especially — when that talent has led him far from the conventions of fashion-magazine photography.

His work was called "charming," "simple," "gentle," "harmless," "lightly funny," and "benign" — applause so placid that it was unlikely to wake anyone dozing in the audience.

First, he worked with Dutch students, who have two words for envy, to gather baseline descriptions of how they felt benign envy, malicious envy, admiration, and resentment.

In my work as a psychiatrist, I have read research on psilocybin — the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms" — that is at odds with the benign outcomes he mentions in his piece.