Word: benignly
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...solar, wind and geothermal power, and making them commercially competitive with oil. A 1981 study by the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy predicted that by the year 2005, the state could be producing 90% of its electricity through renewable resources that are also abundant, environmentally benign and safe from foreign political vicissitudes...
Skelton, the British translator of Cosima Wagner's Diaries, recounts all this with grace and a perhaps too benign indulgence. Since his story leaves off before Cosima's long widowhood (she died in 1930, at 93), he does not have to confront her in the decades when she reigned implacably over Bayreuth. He cites ample evidence of Wagner's more monstrous traits, which Cosima shared or abetted: egomania, antiSemitism, a devouring exploitativeness. Yet Skelton seems to take his tone from a remark of Cosima's, when the abandoned Bülow told her he forgave...
...this call for dignified silence doesn't really sit right. The Review's depredations do make you want to write letters and carry signs. But if The Dartmouth Review makes you mad at racism in America--and it should--get mad also at the political leaders whose benign neglect of the struggle for equality creates a climate in which the paper feels secure. The IEA hotshots--the Buckleys and the Simons who finance The Review in the name of combatting special treatment of minorities--have been feeling bold since the 1980 elections. They feel safe living under a president...
...because a septic injury offended the noses of his countrymen. Wilson himself read this as an allegory of the artist as outcast. As embellished by Edel, Wilson the critic is like Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, who endured the stench and nursed the archer. Wound-dresser is a limited and benign definition of a critic who laid open many a reputation with one stroke...
...help for the poor when the programs are called "aid to the needy" than when they are labeled "public welfare." And that does not mean merely that some citizens prefer H/2O to water. In fact, the finding spotlights the direct influence of the antipathy that has accumulated around the benign word welfare...