Sentence examples for benignly from inspiring English sources

Video Nation uses new technology, not aggressively, but imaginatively and benignly.

"Lost in Showbiz," they ask, "for the love of God, what news of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's plans to conceive a second child?" At this, Lost in Showbiz smiles benignly.

He is grumbling benignly, like Turner in the film.

Lincoln's words speak clearly to those of us who are from countries, however benignly governed, in which all men are not deemed to be equal.

He listened benignly.

Instead, after meeting his counterpart, Robert Mugabe, for a cosy chat in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, he emerged holding hands and smiling benignly before flying to the capital of next-door Zambia.

Now that UniCredit has forayed abroad, the central bank might look more benignly on one of two current bids, by the Netherlands' ABN Amro and Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria.

Parents are indeed increasingly keen to name and treat juvenile behaviour that might have once seemed benignly immature.

Mr Mabey would like us to view weeds more benignly, or at least with greater curiosity.

If Mr Bartley had had his way, government would have done no more than watched benignly as workers worked, citizens consumed and businessmen made profits.

Norton; 965 pages; $45 £30EVENN in his lifetime, William Wordsworth's public image was that of the ultimate nature poet, wandering lonely as a cloud, gazing benignly at daffodils and small children, at home only in the Lake District the patron saint of the Cumbrian tourist industry.