Word: benignity
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...needs protection. Shot by the murderer, Book hides out on Rachel's farm, where his wound is healed by folk medicine. But his presence is resented by the Amish. They are kindly but stern people who understand that threats to their way of life can come in benign forms. For his part, Book suppresses his city smarts and treads as carefully around his hosts' feelings as he does around the cows in the barn. At best he and the Amish achieve tolerance...
...daring billiard shot, which culminates with all his eight balls landing in the right pockets. He shares the paranoiac's / conviction that the world is full of strange and secret connections, but he has bathed his movie in the glowing light of his discovery that these linkages are often benign. And his actors have caught his charmed spirit admirably...
...Waugh offers seedlings of his farces: "Alastair . . . at some stage in the evening lost my waistcoat. Audrey made declarations of love to me, and Richard to Elizabeth and I to Olivia. I do not think Black Torry seduced anyone." When Winston Churchill's son is operated on for a benign tumor, Waugh decides, "It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove...
...child of the '60s. It yoked trail-blazing technical wizardry to intergalactic mysticism, propelling man into space and through the time barrier to confront his own past and a new race's future. The film was about quests, not answers, and at its conclusion an air of benign befuddlement lingered over its hipper audiences like a corona of reefer smoke. Now, in the quick-solution '80s, comes 2010, a sequel whose sole purpose is to explain the ending of its predecessor. Working from Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Writer-Director Peter Hyams lets his movie waltz...
Nesson: Except "jostled and bumped" sounds very benign. It's what happens when we walk out into the street. And the libel plaintiffs view is, "I didn't get jostled. I didn't get bumped. I got decked. I got malevolently knocked out. (laughter) And I want to prove...