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Dynamic benign neglect.
Pity is a benign form of abuse.
Unused creativity is not benign.
I think I'm pretty benign, really, mostly.
I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
My wife and I thought we were in love, but it turned out to be benign
Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.
To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign.
Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.
Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
I always like how a seemingly benign activity that was meant to be fun can turn into drama.
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.
'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.
The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.
Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.
Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.
I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.
I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.
The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.
Sam Cameron has managed the near impossible: to have lived in Number Ten for three years and maintained a benign and broadly positive press.
I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.
I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
Acidisation isn't benign - like fracking, it can pose risks to groundwater sources, and runs counter to the urgency with which we must shift away from fossil fuels.
The U.S. is the most benign great power we will see in our lifetimes, and it is important for global peace that its leaders continue to value being viewed as benign.
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.
First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society.
If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.
It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.
New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.
You don't plan on doing reality TV if you plan on getting involved in politics. My show was pretty benign, but you do say and do things that are dumb at that age. Those shows have me locked in at age 25.
I liked Stanley Kubrick from the start. He had a warm, benign nature and offered himself to you as a friend and ally. He seemed to possess no airs or attitudes, neuroses, or predilection towards tantrums.