Sentence examples similar to symbol of benign from inspiring English sources

There are brilliantly rendered flashbacks to Irvine's home life and his father's obsession with bees; the decay of the hives is a central symbol of a benign but locked-in creativity.

Our findings could also be consistent with the hypothesis that reconciliation only occurs once hostility between former opponents has subsided, and thus partners with continued hostility do not reconcile, or with the hypothesis that reconciliation functions as a symbol of 'benign intent' [27].

When I saw Jacques Tati's film, the bike looked like a lovable symbol of gentleness and benign incompetence.

In much of back-road America, the presence of a post office is a benign symbol of the larger web of governance, of the national community as a whole.

The moral argument against the flag as banner of slavery was ultimately unpersuasive; many suburban legislators who had previously supported the flag as a benign symbol of Southern heritage said the weariness of their constituents and the damage to the state's economy finally changed their minds.

The symbol of the British lion embodied a benign power which could nevertheless show its claws when necessary.

Of course, any artist drawn to a symbol so benign probably isn't the most happy-go-lucky guy on the planet.

Perhaps the point of Banksy's art is that it inhales the wild spirit of forgery: his work makes free with brand identities and the symbols of authority, it replicates them, debunks and devalues them, it is a form of benign subversion.

With luck a kind of benign global civilization may emerge.

The presence of benign or malignant tumor.

As for the rituals being benign, that would be true if the rituals were symbolic in nature and not the reality, the symbol of bread of the sacrament but not really the Christ inside.