Word: benignities
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...made no tight, preparatory sketches, believing that murals should be designed on the spot. "If you work in a small scale," Diego explains in his slow, benign way, "your amplifications are never in scale or in real relation to the light of the building or the possibilities of looking at the painting...
What the politicians said was true: it had taken the machine to get out the vote, and even then it had been light. As mayor of Chicago since 1947, benign Martin Kennelly, 63, who runs a storage and trucking business, had worked hard and made few enemies. Even the Republicans weren't mad enough at him to put up a fight. The G.O.P. tried to make Truman the issue and "Defeat the War Party" the slogan; their candidate, a worthy but unexciting lawyer named Robert L. Hunter, preferred to campaign against Kennelly himself as a "ribbon-snipping, do-nothing...
...himself, there was a toothsome part as the benign god Quetzalcoatl. He grapples in conflict throughout the four cycles of creation and destruction with the malignant god Tezcatlipoca (Lucas Hoving). In the end, Quetzalcoatl triumphs and the earth is saved...
Still walking his daily mile across a Princeton meadow to the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein quietly approached his 72nd birthday. Looking more than ever like a benign, wise old sea lion, he was too busy working on new problems to take much note of the churning outside world which he has helped to change so much...
...bobbies are all benign, high-minded, comradely chaps, as alike as the buttons on a uniform. At home, they grow begonias; in the clubby atmosphere of the station house, they grab spare moments for darts and glee-club practice...