Word: benignantly
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...suppose the mature thing would be to regard Father's Day with a kind of benign neutrality. After all, who does it hurt? And, all in all, it's probably good for the economy, better even than a mid-summer tax-cut. In fact, I ought to take some pleasure in it, and I'd be a liar if I said that I didn...
...motivator for his staff--even in a crisis he cracks jokes," says an adviser. He goes to movies, plays tough tennis, loves The Simpsons. He can even be seen pushing baby Leo's pram by himself in St. James's Park on a Sunday. But beyond the benign family man and the carefully primped "Strong Leader" campaign persona, there is always an edge of impatience...
...including lots of concerned mothers) who consider Affleck?s clean-cut, aw-shucks shtick a welcome reprieve from the sultry seductiveness of many Hollywood heartthrobs. It may not even be a shtick - I?m not sure Affleck is that good of an actor - he may really be just that benign in real life. But maybe he could do with a little bit of dirt under those nails, a few lines of concern around his eyes. Maybe he should check back with us in 25 years or so and we?ll see if he?s acquired anything resembling an edge...
...capability with patient needs,” says Brad Prenney, deputy director of the Bureau of Health Quality Management. “The current law is in place because EMTs are trained to assess, not diagnose patients. There’s considerable variation in emergency situations, and a seemingly benign situation could have serious underlying causes...
They had been trained for a conventional struggle in which success is measured by gaining territory. In Vietnam, by contrast, there were no front lines to advance; the war was pervasive. An apparently benign peasant could be a guerrilla, a pretty prostitute a clandestine agent, the kid who delivered the laundry a secret informer. Flooded rice fields concealed spikes, booby traps permeated jungles, and barracks were vulnerable to terrorist attacks. No wonder the grunts were paranoid and their commanders frustrated. So strategy was reduced to a basic formula: kill as many of the enemy as possible in hopes of breaking...