Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.
Pity is a benign form of abuse.
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Life without risk is a life that is benign and sterile.
Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.
Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.
I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.
Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.
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.
A good meal soothes the soul as it regenerates the body. From the abundance of it flows a benign benevolence.
Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.
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.
