Sentence examples similar to notably benevolent from inspiring English sources
Olivia Judson's observations lose some of their luster when compared with the evidence that living organisms regularly survive by consuming one another; or that scientific pursuits have provided the potential to destroy the species that so widely regards itself as ultimately superior; or most notably, that a deity might exist whose benevolent purposes are not fully comprehensible.
Both of these stories are usually interpreted as proof that Christians must simply submit to the authorities, and give Caesar whatever he asks of us (notably with little regard of whether Caesar is a dictator or elected, evil or benevolent).
There are subtly drawn portraits of the naive and idealistic young Fabrice del Dongo (notably at the Battle of Waterloo); of his courageous and passionate aunt, the Duchess de Sanseverina; of her lover, the benevolent Machiavellian statesman Count Mosca; and of the young and innocent Clélia Conti, the daughter of Fabrice's jailer, who falls in love with the handsome prisoner.
4. Benevolent dictators are benevolent.
This is The Hunger Games as pointed political procedural, detailing with some wit the tactical reconstruction of Katniss as a revolutionary figurehead by outside parties – notably spin doctor Plutarch Heavensbee, played by a quietly benevolent Philip Seymour Hoffman.
But sustaining a benevolent nanny state is proving to be challenging even for the notably generous Danes.
They are never benevolent.
