He was probably expressing benevolence, muddled with sexism.
Why is it that the choice to express our humanitarian benevolence through the use of missiles and jets gets on the table to the top of the agenda, even again and again, but the choice to express it less truculently so rarely does?
When altruism is our dominant state of mind - our default mode - it expresses itself as benevolence toward anyone who might come into the field of our attention and translates itself as goodwill, readiness and willingness to care.
In addition to feelings and beliefs, gratitude also seems to require an act of or tendency to acknowledge a benefactor's act of benevolence, and/or to communicate, demonstrate or express grateful beliefs and feelings to the benefactor.
For the Dreamers, there may still be hope that the sympathetic benevolence he expressed toward them last month does not change does not go south after, say, a conversation with Jeff Sessions, or a TV news story that strikes Trump wrong somehow.
When the state senator retired, he worked with his successor to introduce and win passage of legislation that allowed a "safe harbor" for people to offer "benevolent gestures expressing sympathy or a general sense of benevolence," said Professor Cohen, who has written extensively on the intersection of law and apologies.
That benevolence was also expressed through Samson's profound devotion to the Long Island Jewish community, where he served with distinction.
The concept of ren has been interpreted in different ways, some of them partially expressed in English renderings such as "goodness," "benevolence," and "love".
The mere fact that a practice is traditional or customary, as the li (rituals, ceremonies) are, does not show that it is right in the objective, universal sense expressed by moral concepts such as ren (benevolence) and yi (righteousness, morality).
