Sentence examples for benignant from inspiring English sources

More than any political theory, what seduced the twenty-one-year-old was the emotional climate of Revolutionary France: he "believed," he remembered in "The Prelude," "That a benignant spirit was abroad / Which might not be withstood".

A benignant Taoist detachment may underlie his temerity.

Outwardly they may seem "benignant" (to use a Brontëan word), but inwardly, Nora declares, they seethe.

For Tony Blair and his supporters, comparisons with the second world war summon up warm memories of a triumphant and thoroughly benevolent transatlantic armed alliance: "Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant," as Winston Churchill put it.

But Pentagon documents released earlier this month give an alarming account of where the benignant billions of aid dollars poured into Pakistan's coffers over the last decade have ended up: on the most modern weaponry – combat aircraft, laser-guided kits, anti-ship missiles, air-to-air missiles – for use against India.

But the substance of "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape" is the mystical American continent as enshrined by Hudson River School sublimity, aglow with honeyed mists and framed by benignant trees.

He is nevertheless invoked as Shiva, Shambhu, Shankara ("Benignant" and "Beneficent"), for the god that can strike down can also spare.