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
He accepted the anxious attentions of his agonized parents with ineffable sweetness, regarding them with a thoughtful benignity, not wholly restraining his feelings, nor yet allowing them a free indulgence.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
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
Many of the people shook hands with me at the door, and the bald old gentleman led me to his wife and daughter, whose benignities were almost parental.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
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
It did not occur to him that solitude to the great may be worth more than the benignities of a valet.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird
