Except, that is, when it's benevolent.
She's heard the practice called "benevolent lying," but she says she's not sure it's benevolent.
It is benevolent, providing all people with life, sustenance, and natural resources.
For a while, reality was benevolent.
But when diabetic-like condition is caused by either starvation or rapamycin, then it might be benevolent (Fig. 3).
Where once it used to be benevolent, if autocratic, butchers and bakers running football clubs, now it is men to whom the bottom line is the balance sheet and the cut of their tailored trousers.
To have such attitudes, of course, is just part of what it is to be benevolent, loyal, kind, filial, and brotherly.
But it stayed and bumped the boat for hours, and by doing so steered it; and it cannot be known whether it was deliberate, benevolent, that it did not steer the kayak farther out to sea.
At the end, however, it was a benevolent ministry in a democratic Poland that cared for him as an honored citizen who had helped to bring about Poland's emergence from totalitarian rule, a man who went on to serve in Parliament and as labor minister, and who also ran for president, winning 10percentt of the vote in 1995.
"So it was a benevolent dictatorship," he continued, "with me as the dictator and hoping -- just hoping -- that I was getting some good advice from my colleagues who knew a heck of a lot more about I.B.M. and this industry than I would ever know".
