benevolent

“Joan had benevolent impulses toward Eve,” says Anolik.

Its Gotham as a right-wing talking point come to life, hollowed out by federal disinvestment and abandoned to the whims of street gangs, mobsters and the benevolent grace of a gazillionaire industrialist named Bruce Wayne.

For a while there, many of us in the newspaper business thought that benevolent billionaires were a plausible savior for news organizations like the Post and the LA Times.

The protection of women — purportedly a benevolent, paternalistic gesture — has instead been historically grounded in and applied for the purposes of controlling women.

“Transformers One,” which serves as a prequel to the entire narrative universe about an alien race of metallic humanoids with the ability to morph into vehicles, traces the origin of the conflict between the benevolent Autobots and the malicious Decepticons before the two groups even existed.