Word: benignantly
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...slogan, “Life has become better. Life has become merrier.” The actual subject of the painting, a communal dinner in rural Russia, would itself have been unremarkable. But when metamorphosed into a massive genre painting as a monument to Stalinist benevolence, such a banal, benign subject can take on a sinister power...
GGTP student Matt J. Hegreness said that he thought Watson’s ideas were a “voluntary, benign form of eugenics...
...between itself and the U.S.'s allies. Many of the tensions in the region would be resolved if China were to develop into a democratic society that neither threatens its neighbors nor feels threatened by them?a consummation devoutly to be wished. But the future may not be so benign. A China where nationalism has replaced Marxism as the legitimating ideology of the state could yet turn into a regional bully...
These parents are not serving their children well, Sapon-Shevin argues. "You want them to learn lessons that are powerful but benign. Your kid gets drunk, they throw up, feel like crap--that's a good lesson. They don't study for an exam, fail it and learn that next time they should study. Or not return the library book and have to pay the fine. But when you have a kid leave their bike out, it gets run over and rusty, and you say, 'O.K., honey, we'll buy you a new one,' they never learn to put their...
...more flexible and less confrontational, particularly with the expected departure of Under Secretary of State John Bolton, a hard-liner on the North. "The U.S. has toned down talk of regime change to regime transformation," says Baik. "Pyongyang wants to see if this translates into policy." A less benign dynamic may be at work as well. Pyongyang has a long history of threatening to walk out of talks in order to extract concessions?and cash?from its opponents. The tactic has worked in the past; both Beijing and Washington have provided "aid" at critical junctures, and Seoul paid Pyongyang...