People who hold a more benevolent view of human nature, in contrast, are more likely to benefit from joining forces with others, he said.
Some people say that a beautiful and benevolent fairy once comes to the earthly world.
" Frankly, I feel at home with those sheep-mild, benevolent, rather apprehensive creatures, acting together by instinct and of course very, very woolly.
" He sat up, fat and froggy and benevolent, like a bronze Buddha, and grew earnest.
He appeared to be a poor, weak beggar, and he carried a pack basket on his back, as though he wanted to collect some benevolent offerings in it.
But Joe Pinsker, writing in The Atlantic, says this seemingly "benevolent" form of sexism can lead to a sense of entitlement on men's part — they tend to think that women owe them because they have paid.
# A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
It was Christmas and the judge was in a benevolent mood as he questioned the prisoner.
