Except, that is, when it's benevolent.
Ann's envy was only fleeting — it was benevolent, gracious.
She's heard the practice called "benevolent lying," but she says she's not sure it's benevolent.
FROM THE DISSENT By Justice Thomas Frederick Douglass, speaking to a group of abolitionists almost 140 years ago, delivered a message lost on today's majority: "[I]n regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us.
"Young people have been led astray thinking that liberal Democrats would be better for their life," Rohrabacher tells me, later conceding that nanny-staters are "benevolent, I'm not charging them with being a bunch of fascists".
Piecewise o-monotonicity requires that the DM′s general attitude towards the other person (i.e., whether she is benevolent, neutral, or malevolent to the other) depends only on whether the other person has more or less monetary payoff than the DM herself.
It's one thing to be benevolent, charitable – I've given a way a good half-dozen medkits to sickly citizens, so far – but quite another to blindly head down into the city's bowels because some guy you've only just met reckons there's some disinfectant down there.
I can only hope that they are benevolent enough to put the site back into their directory.
They are benevolent but still wagging a finger of "I-told-you-so" at all of us.
JC: I couldn't help but feel that Gladys wasn't just being benevolent.
I was fresh out of drama school and thought that a filmmaker would be benevolent, constructive, artistic.
