Sentence examples for like benevolent from inspiring English sources

"We are like benevolent spirits," he said.

"We are kind of like benevolent spirits," he said.

When Elizabeth comes to, she finds herself outside under a mango tree, surrounded by a group of Indian doctors hovering "like benevolent uncles".

Yet markets that create working conditions – even in the UK – reminiscent of gulags, all for £6.70 an hour, don't sound much like benevolent deities.

At times, her stories read like benevolent gossip, and, unlike much of the writing that was emerging then, they were not anti-Soviet; rather, they were profoundly un-Soviet.

Aronofsky borrows from the "Transformer" series, too: Noah and his family are protected by the Watchers, fallen angels who stand sixteen feet tall and move like benevolent versions of the raging Decepticons.

Famously, it can be seen from pretty much anywhere in York, peering down like some benevolent guardian / Sauron-like dictator.

In this setting Machar comes off like a benevolent park ranger than like an angry rebel leader in exile.

Mr. Dorfman played tunes on an accordion, after which he recited a long list of adjectives describing Ms. Myers, including words like "stupendous, benevolent, surprising, forgiving, human, humane, sensitive, friendly and Martha-like".

As a theatre-world glamour couple, they seem less like a President and a First Lady than like a benevolent prince and princess.

It is a world in which things do not remain as they should (witness the rapid-fire shifts of the gown: from patronizing pink cover-up to incongruous, stiff container to something like a benevolent shelter — those eaves for nesting — to something like a ruin).