benevolent

Example Sentences

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Lively’s award-winning fiction has always balanced keen wit with a compassionate outlook, and it isn’t hard to see how her own life in the garden has nurtured this benevolent and creative spirit.

From Seattle Times

Depicting the benevolent Amida Buddha, who offered paradise to believers, some had silk cords extending from the buddha’s hands that the expiring person could grasp.

From New York Times

Remember “Cocoon,” Ron Howard’s 1985 drama of lovable geriatrics and benevolent aliens?

From Washington Post

Can you please help me find the National Rifle Association’s mythic, benevolent gun-toting, lionhearted sage?

From Seattle Times

The sci-fi premise of the show, set mostly in the present-day United States, is that a powerful algorithm known as “Mrs. Davis” — characterized by avid users as beneficial and even benevolent — has fixed the world.

From Washington Post