But to say that we are living in a "post-fact" era is perhaps too benign.
Perhaps more benign modern-day team names and logos had their origin in this paraphernalia.
The markets, which have turned perhaps too benign an eye so far, could start delivering a harsher verdict sooner than the putative August debt cap deadline.
It doesn't make much sense, though, to impose certain and substantial costs on the economy now in order to avoid unknown and perhaps even benign changes in the future.
Perhaps the benign strategy behind it all, which we're not party to, is to accumulate enough cash to commission much-needed fresh translations of Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña's La Regenta, and Justinian's Digest of Roman Law for their tens of fans.
An astronomically wealthy and famous figure such as Steve Jobs can withstand this treatment without much consequence beyond a shimmer of cognitive dissonance in our minds; the word feels perhaps less benign when applied to Curie, the lone female innovator in "Quirky".
In our study, subtle and perhaps even benign ecological factors (listed above) appear to underlie the divergent and/or alternative development of certain rehabilitated sites despite the careful implementation and refinement of rehabilitation practices.
What started perhaps as benign neglect or a minor diplomatic snub took hold like a prairie fire with a series of successive gaffes.
In colorectal cancer, the odds of delayed diagnosis were doubled by a past history of anxiety and depression, perhaps because benign causes of gastrointestinal symptoms are thought common in this group so, when presenting with nonspecific symptoms, their risk of cancer is perceived to be low.
Why Ikea, the 60-year-old megabrand whose perky Swedish style has homogenized living rooms from Europe to Malaysia (it now has 265 stores in 35 countries), should be so hackable has everything to do with its price point and, perhaps, its benign-seeming blondness.
