benignity
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Notice the benignity in those examples, because — quite importantly — Thor does not become malicious.
From Salon ● May 1, 2019
He writes: “‘Carbon Ideologies’ largely neglects solar power, that being associated with decentralization and environmental benignity.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2018
Third, the benignity and violation have to be simultaneously interpreted; otherwise, the joke will fall flat.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2018
Any hope of sneaking in some bold or challenging theological notion, or moral proposition, rests on the benignity of this initial encounter.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2016
When he presumed on this benignity, he was again repulsed with frowns.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
One was a standard something-is-wrong-with-nature film that made monsters of benignities, the other a headlong black-comic attack on the nuclear threat.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are disturbing to look at, nightmarish, but most of them, oddly enough, are intended as lucky benignities.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
There is nothing like surface-mining to snatch the graces and beauties and benignities out of a paradise, and make an odious and repulsive spectacle of it.
From Following the Equator, Part 3 by Mark Twain
The balsams shed upon the air their perfumes, so pervasive, so tonic, that the lungs breathed health and all the benignities of nature.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
To him, as to Cowper, the benignities of nature restored peace and calmness and hope—sufficient to enable him to look back and gather wisdom.
From England's Antiphon by George MacDonald
