Sentence examples for malign about from inspiring English sources

Most of the time, there is nothing obviously malign about this.

Indeed, there is nothing inherently malign about securitization, any more than there is about most of the processes invented by modern finance.

Never in my adult lifetime has one politician so perfectly embodied everything that is malign about my country: the proto-fascist nativism, the know-nothingism, the utterly cavalier lack of knowledge about the actual principles on which the country was founded.

Obama defended his look to Ryan Seacrest during a radio interview: "I've been unfairly maligned about my jeans.

Rather than celebrate multiculturalism, he denounced it as 'multi-culti,' made malign jokes about people with darker skin than himself, blamed formerly oppressed nations for their continuing failure".

'They, and the audience,' he says, still slightly affronted by the memory, 'were all making not only anti-war statements but malign statements about the American government - as some people are now, freedom of speech and all of this......

As recounted so far, the McCann story is a narrative either about the world being a dangerous place where children are at terrible risk, or one about malign parents who can't be trusted with their own kids.

So I am very disappointed that he joins in the scare stories about "malign purposes" of alleged Trotskyite and Tory participants in the leadership election ("Labour needs a prime minister, not a debate. It needs Burnham", Comment).

It thus seems that ideas about malign action by powerful others, concerted in secret, are easier done than undone.

The struggle of blacks in America these days is rarely about the malign intentions of individual racists in power, but rather is more about structural problems such as concentrated poverty, broken families and terrible schools.It does not help, either, that Baltimore is one of the most dangerous cities in America.

There are poems about his wife's brain tumour: 'malignant but not malign,/ it set about doing - /not evil,/simply the job tumours have always done.' There are also poems about the task of shaving her head for her - 'Revealed: a handsome/unabashed smoothness/ I couldn't stop wanting/ to fondle and kiss.' Reid is a well established poet and was poetry editor of Faber and Faber between 1991 and 1999.