benevolent

How To Use benevolent In A Sentence

• The clerk regarded him with benevolent amusement.
• Pray: Lord, teach me to live my life unaffectedly—just like a child who is completely secure in the love of a benevolent parent. Recovering From Religious Abuse
• Therefore, they perceived themselves as corporate members and experienced its power as essentially benevolent.
• Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable. Creative Control - Part 4
• This does not mean, though, that he accepts our modern idea of an omnibenevolent God. Nietzsche the Pantheist? | Heretical Ideas Magazine
• She mentally reviewed his no longer youthful figure, his monastic face, black-haired and large-nosed, with eyes full of expression, his curly mouth, at once judgmatic and benevolent. Flowering Wilderness
• He had a habit of flashing the wads of cash his benevolent son sent home to him.
• He was postcoitally benevolent, practically glowing—he would make an effort to really understand her. Say When
• It was a benevolent organization that gave aid to fellow miners, their widows and children, as the many newspaper articles of the period record.
• During the day I was sustained and inspirited by the hope of night: for in sleep I saw my friends, my wife, and my beloved country; again I saw the benevolent countenance of my father, heard the silver tones of my Elizabeth's voice, and beheld Clerval enjoying health and youth. Chapter 7