Word: benignantly
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...images which would have been a highly exciting thing even without any story at all, is gone. Its absence was never proved more definitely than by The Arizona Kid. For this is no sophisticated echo of an old form, but the great, universal "western" itself, the one about the benign Mexican badman - living in disguise and loved by his friends and the village girls- who is really the desperate Arizona Kid, and who is discovered and chased in the last reel and gets away with his sweetheart down the canyon side. Instead of rushing, it is lethargic, ornate; when...
...watches his own sincere efforts to elevate the Indian people transformed to an excuse for lawless excesses. Nevertheless, his influence is great. It is possible that he will, as he did in 1876, sacrifice his life-long struggle for a free India to the ideals of his benign Buddha and check the simmering of Indian nationalism before it comes to a boil. Eyes are turned to the East where a lion raises a questioning eyebrow at a Saint...
...stairs, round the walls of the yellow dining room stalks a procession of tall Mexican goddesses with bird heads. Night after night these rooms were filled with the intelligentsia, the talking, drinking, reciting, bright people of an inner world, while Bob Chanler sat on the floor, disheveled and benign like Praxiteles' Zeus...
...interest. Every year a number of engineers and personnel directors from several of the large manufacturing concerns are invited to speak at the Institute on the advantages of obtaining positions with their respective companies. Inevitably they have pictured the prospect in rosy, colors, and told of steady advancement and benign supervision. But many students, after listening to one of these men, have been found to exhibit a feeling of uneasiness; a fear, perhaps not altogether unwarranted, that in accepting such a position they will automatically become mere cogs in a huge machine; that they will become nothing more than small...
...first time in the current congressional uproar there was last week a small but possibly significant turn in the Prohibition tide. It came when large, benign Representative George Scott Graham of Pennsylvania, 79-year-old Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that he would allow his committee to hold public hearings on seven bills for repeal or modification of the 18th Amendment. The date...