Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wind and water have all been hailed as cheap, renewable and benign alternatives to oil, coal and nuclear plants. Now comes a warning from a bastion of environmentalism, the National Audubon Society, that even ecologically favored, so-called solar sources of energy can have serious drawbacks...
...colors: it is the revolutionaries who have declared their inflexible antipathy toward the U.S. This, understandably, was a natural reaction against the American policy of expansion and domination of Mexico. It is a policy that, since the middle of the last century, has oscillated between the big stick and benign neglect...
...circled around it throughout the book, and having finally said it with a measure of clarity, he leaves it and moves on. Possibly if Timerman had a more informed sense of what the PLO actually is--he speaks of it, like many rational optimists, as though it were a benign bunch of rowdy children--his point would seem more credible...
...East Room under the daunting gaze of George and Martha Washington. Second, Gary Richard Arnold, the congressional candidate from Santa Cruz, Calif, (slogan: LOOKS LIKE LENIN, TALKS LIKE LINCOLN), who provoked Reagan, was the perfect person to spark the Irish flint, suspected but rarely revealed publicly, beneath then smiling, benign Reagan surface...
...Jellicles are assembled for a clan ritual. Annually, the revered elder, Old Deuteronomy, played like a benign biblical patriarch by Ken Page, chooses a deserving Jellicle to ascend "up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside Layer," and be born again. While this serves as a passing and somewhat pretentious reminder of Eliot's New England transcendentalism, it does not provide the binding plot line that Nunn obviously hoped it would. As it is, the various Eliot cats come on doing star turns as if they were gifted gypsies eager to escape the anonymity...