Sentence examples for sounds benign from inspiring English sources

In that climate, Similac's message sounds benign.

THE exhibition at the Brookfield Craft Center sounds benign and much of it is.

Your proposed transaction sounds benign if you call it a "bonus" rather than a "bribe".

That sounds benign, but advocates have raised legitimate concerns over its lack of oversight and internal controls.

But while the "sharing economy" sounds benign enough, it is, in its way, not so very different to the traditional "grey economy".

That sounds benign but could be terrible for Kansas, where the right wing holds the governor's office and is prominent in the State Senate.

But if the popular name for their clashes sounds benign, it has become a cruel euphemism over the years, conveying nothing of the hatreds and lurking violence that characterize what may be the oldest, and the most dangerous, crosstown rivalry in all of sports.

This sounds benign and even humanitarian until one realises that the idea is directed primarily at stopping the Kurds from controlling more territory, and that the Turkish definition of "moderate" appears to include extreme jihadis such as Ahrar al-Sham that usually fight in alliance with the al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra.