| 单词 | benign |
| 例句 | By 1820 even Adams had stopped firing off his illumination rounds and had adopted the Jeffersonian posture of benign duplicity, preferring to risk hypocrisy rather than the friendship. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Lowell’s Martians were benign and hopeful, even a little godlike, very different from the malevolent menace posed by Wells and Welles in The War of the Worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, too, it knew that Matty’s travels were benign and necessary. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z In the way of the body and other people’s judgment I enjoy a benign approval in Kilanga that I have never, ever known in Bethlehem, Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The community, relieved from its discomfort very slightly by her benign statement, seemed to breathe more easily. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z His benign smile is less sure now, and people in the audience are beginning to speak amongst themselves, concern rising like the tide. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She had five minutes left—five minutes during which she not only had to identify the poisons in seven goblets, but arrange them in the order of the most benign to the deadliest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Mr. de Klerk, for his part, suggested that the system of separate development had been conceived as a benign idea, but had not worked in practice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As certainly as he had known that the doe was benign, he knew that Ron had to be the one to wield the sword. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It seemed like the most benign of tragedies that she didn’t like the chocolate ice cream nearly as much as she had the vanilla. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z And the racism was not benign; it was virulent. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z And beneath his benign reply, I sense a warning. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It had all seemed benign before, her mother s faith, all drenched in grace, and suddenly it no longer was. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Oh, you are at home,” he says, a growl in his voice that makes him seem menacing no matter how benign the words he speaks. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He laced his fingers together with a benign smile. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z But not while he was there, always there, a benign presence laughing with warriors or doing, gladly, whatever needed to be done. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z If I’m lucky, it might turn out to be somewhat benign. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The action was so graceful and inclusively benign. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Hmm . Imperial gold sword wound, but that’s healed nicely. No cancer, no heart problems. Watch that mole on your left foot, but I’m sure it’s benign.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They apply to the organization of entire countries: remember the perennial arguments about whether the best form of government is a benign dictatorship, a federal system, or an anarchical free-for-all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If there was mystery or contradiction in a friend, Leon took the long view and found a benign explanation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I saw smiles, benign faces, courtesies—a side of the white man I had not seen in weeks, but I remembered too well the other side. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite my questionable physical appearance, I charmed the immigration officer, answered a bunch of benign questions, and walked out knowing that I'd finally be getting a green card. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “I’m so glad nature is not benign.” he^ remarked. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While at the heart of Beethoven’s symphony lies a vision of a better civilisation led by a benign deity, Berlioz, a life-long atheist, attempts to evoke the Apocalypse and Final Judgement in sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Construction of the Mines Building had gone smoothly, thanks to a winter that by Chicago standards had been mercifully benign. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His tone was normal, calm, as if air raids were benign, as if it were not death that had come so close moments ago. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The first day of class he had looked up from the podium when he came to Gogol’s name on the roster, an expression of benign amazement on his face. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore’s face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z His face was fatherly and benign, and his eyes twinkled with friendship. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z They were diagnosed as various types of benign and malignant growths. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In that day pus was thought to be benign, a proof that a wound was healing properly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Atticus Finch had watched Henry’s ragged pursuit of his daughter with benign objectivity, giving advice when asked for it, but absolutely declining to become involved. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z So they’d had her diagnosed, had the benign tumors removed, save the one on her back, which never changed much. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Then, the Masters nodding benign consent, Jasper worked an illusion-charm for her. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z As biologists rushed to embrace Mendel’s laws and grapple with their consequences, Galton adopted a rather benign indifference to them. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps alien intentions are uncompromisingly benign, more like La Perouse than Cortes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It's floating, but not in a benign way. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Berlin would become a sort of benign amusement park for adults. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The nurse at the desk was a stout woman with copper-colored hair, who looked at the two girls with benign sympathy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Above a spacious fireplace an oil portrait of the Founder looked down at me remotely, benign, sad, and in that hot instant, profoundly disillusioned. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the wall behind him there was a benign, mouse-haired calendar-Jesus with lipstick and rouge, and a lurid, jeweled heart glowing through his clothes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She smiles at me, the smile of an angel, benign but remote. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The nitrogen in the Earth’s atmosphere is much more chemically inert and therefore much more benign than oxygen. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But at first it was not so benign to all. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Mount Toro, on the brother range to the west, was a rounded benign mountain, and to the north Monterey Bay shone like a blue platter. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The belly of the plane groaned open and we were delivered abruptly into the benign spring air of Fort Benning, Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Where the other supervolcanoes tend to bubble away steadily and in a comparatively benign fashion, Yellowstone blows explosively. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Calmly he struck a wooden match and sucked noisily at his pipe with an eloquent air of benign and magnanimous forgiveness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I wash, he dries, and he asks me benign, avuncular, maddening questions, such as how do I like Grade Nine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Houses built in the benign spring and early summer took waves in their second- story windows. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Dumbly, I’d stand there, waiting for his wife to notice us, for her to call him off with a benign smile. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I gained a profound respect for wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And Dr. Bledsoe sat with a benign smile of inward concentration. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. He's not in danger. At least not now. But there is a presence. It seems benign. I think...” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Before, scraping elbows together or grabbing her hand had seemed benign, just exciting enough without being serious or scary. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Often, in the minutes she had to herself each day as she walked from the bungalow to the house, she would reflect on the benign accidents of her life. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z No longer did the weather look so benign. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z An opposite view is that benign environments leave people free from the constant struggle for existence, free to devote themselves to innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “But on a day like today, we can pretend nature is benign., ^ All monsters and beasts have their benign moments.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Milo responded to his request with a benign smile. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They had worked hard to eradicate customs that had begun to corrupt their society, banning even seemingly benign diversions such as a gaming machine, a simple gambling device that spit out candy to its winners. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Finally, we come to the jealousy and mostly benign neglect of her masters in Cairo, to whom Alexandria and her port were, at best, redundant, and at worst, a reminder of Egypt’s foreign-dominated past. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z But like many other first-generation African women of similar age, she referred to her bleaching routine as “toning”, insinuating benign dark spot removal, and only on her face. My toxic love affair with skin lightening creams 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The company’s benign neglect was a boon for many creators. On Google Podcasts, a Buffet of Hate 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z If she’s merely loud in church, and her remarks are generally benign, then, beyond just not encouraging her, your burden sounds more perceived than real. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He’s a great guy, except for the bigotry 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Looking at movies and thinking about the prizes they might win is a relatively benign and locally contagious form of cynicism. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z In May, she underwent elective surgery to remove a benign tumor in the lining tissue of her brain. Mary Tyler Moore to get SAG lifetime award 2011-09-08T17:23:44Z He was a very benign presence, with these piercing blue eyes. The day Oliver Reed grabbed me by the balls | Omid Djalili 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z But most moths are benign, and some moths are unexpectedly beautiful. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The Mansons referred to these sorts of “benign” outings as “creepy crawling.” Quentin Tarantino Turns His Most Recent Movie Into a Pulpy Page-Turner 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Some of these, like one in which Beatrice and Benedick are tricked into declaring their love, are benign. Lily Rabe in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Central Park 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Written in the wake of the suffragette movement and the enfranchisement of women, it reinterprets witches as proto-feminists whose only cult is a benign one, that of self-discovery. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z These are widely recognized as benign, with no debilitating consequences. Review | What it might feel like to live in a high-tech surveillance state 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Melania Trump’s request for privacy while undergoing a procedure to treat a “benign” kidney condition this week has largely been respected by the American public. For first ladies, health issues can be a teachable moment — or a time to seek privacy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z In the early 50s, everyone was happy because there was only one TV channel and it was programmed by patronising and benign paternalistic liberals. Never mind endangered animals – it's the thinkers that we need to save 2013-03-10T00:05:44Z And seen at the conclusion of Ms. De Salvo’s show the painting suggests a further reading: the image of a host of spirits — benign? threatening? neutral? — stirring behind a drifting bank of clouds. Meet Warhol, Again, in This Brilliant Whitney Show 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Actually, that's not quite right – it creates its own benign Sunday around it. The still waters of Dutch landscape paintings run deep 2010-04-29T11:02:00Z The rapid loss of prestige and population left the mountain towns frozen in time, their colonial glory preserved, to varying degrees, through decades of benign neglect. Find history and personality in Mexican hilltowns near Puerto Vallarta 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z They were benign pursuits in the face of the reality; the threat of repercussions, torture and murder that seeped into the consciousness of the entire nation, making normal life a struggle. My ex told me years ago she’d been abused. Is it too late to help? | Dear Mariella 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Step back and see this naive and benign spirit in the adorable form of a beagle puppy that means no harm but needs your acceptance, affection, guidance and understanding to be a good canine companion. Animal Doctor: ‘Maniac’ puppy keeps going and going and going 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z “Maybe it’s benign neglect, but I don’t see it at the center anymore.” America’s ‘national library’ is behind the digital curve, a new report finds 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Certainly, the French apparently take a more benign view of the older woman, often seen as a kindly instructress in the ways of love,a rite of passage for the awkward younger man. Time's finally up for Hollywood's Lolita complex 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Key events unfold differently, and for contrasting reasons — Alice seems the pursued rather than the pursuer, Noah neither as reluctant nor as benign as he presents himself. A taut, gripping inquiry into 'The Affair' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z And for “Reality,” a mournful but benign breakup song, he sat solo playing electric piano, an instrument he hadn’t yet touched, as if hinting that there’s still more of his music to be discovered. Music Review: Allen Stone at S.O.B.?s - Review 2011-11-10T22:29:19Z On both sides of Mr. Livingston’s family, though, his impending journey to Noma and his waning weeks in the laboratory of WD-50 remain something of a benign mystery. Malcolm Livingston II Prepares to Move to Noma From WD-50 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Let “benign neglect” be your motto as you make these. How to go from zero to shortbread in less than 60 minutes 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z There’s an air of benign tolerance, just like in the movies. John Cusack: ‘Hollywood is a whorehouse and people go mad’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z "Instantly, Elizabeth and her family assumed benign, indulgent expressions which were invisible to the crowd." Night of Triumph by Peter Bradshaw – review 2013-06-12T15:00:00Z As for the less tangible aspects of the house’s history — Linda hopes a prospective buyer won’t be thwarted by the possibility of a benign, if supernatural, presence. A lot of Americans believe in ghosts. But what do their ghost stories actually tell us? 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z She describes Woody Allen’s directing style as one of “benign neglect”, although it doesn’t sound altogether benign to me. Cate Blanchett: ‘I used to be very socially awkward’ 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Soon thereafter we began a benign acquaintance that I find almost a bigger bummer than pretending she fell off the face of the earth entirely. My girl problems 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z One of the reasons for the benign response it elicits is that Baron Cohen presents himself as a good sport. The Dictator ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:03Z Superficially then, the railway is a benign force in Italy. Italian Ways by Tim Parks – review 2013-06-22T13:00:02Z But doctors discovered after the surgery that it was benign. ‘I Just Left My Body.’ Kate Walsh Speaks Out on Brain Tumor Diagnosis 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z What might seem like benign “general knowledge” to you might strike them as private and intrusive. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mom yearns to share adult sons’ news with her ex 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z But when a person is healthy — like the 242 U.S. adults who volunteered to be tested for the project — those bugs simply quietly coexist with benign or helpful microbes, perhaps kept in check by them. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z Most of the responses were benign, but some were not. Art Review | 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present': At MoMA, a Performance Artist Endures 2010-03-11T22:56:00Z There don’t have to be just benign flavors that deliver alcohol.” Allen Katz Finds Romance in His Food Mill 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Moynihan suggested to Nixon that: The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of “benign neglect.” ArtsBeat: Remembering Those Radical Chic Evenings 2011-03-16T20:45:38Z In any case, just when all seemed tiresomely benign, that demented serial killer, Fate, returned once more to Downton. Rewind TV: Downton Abbey; Restless; Loving Miss Hatto; The Girl; David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Paul – review 2012-12-30T00:06:04Z The mock-up suggests a benign version of experiments made by psychologist Harry Harlow, who observed the anxiety of rhesus monkeys separated from their mothers and left with only a wire surrogate for comfort. In New York, modern art is going to the dogs 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Which is not to say that what lay beneath the mythology was benign. RS Thomas: Serial Obsessive by M Wynn Thomas – review 2013-04-06T08:30:19Z With more information, the mystery of what travels along those hidden paths seems less benign. Nicole Chung’s Adoption Memoir, “All You Can Ever Know,” Is an Ode to Sisterly Love 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z So many of the unseen threats around us I ignored as benign. The Ghost Was the Least of Our Problems 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Brand's own plan for planetary domination is more benign, though, emanating as it does from his Hare Krishna-influenced philosophical beliefs. Russell Brand: messiah or very naughty boy? 2013-06-15T23:05:40Z Military metaphors may not be benign, the study found. 'War on cancer' metaphors may do harm, research shows 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z For nearly fifty years now, Cosby has been selling us a vision of America as a place where a man like him—ostensibly benign, successful, unencumbered by the shackles of history—could exist. What Shielded Bill Cosby? 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z In most cases, the conflict is benign, Kluger says, and parents needn’t worry that their kids are irreparably damaging what should be one of the most important and long-lasting relationships in their lives. Less bickering, more bonding: How to help siblings get along 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z And then they would cast someone who was beautiful and benign. Yeah, Life Is Very Sunny for Kaitlin Olson 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z People’s concerns about technology used to be fairly benign. This Modern Love: Our Uneasy Relationship With Our Machines 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The next movement's march wasn't militaristic, nor was it benign. London Philharmonic Orchestra's Jurowski a hypnotic force 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Except really he was more like a werewolf: a creature into which otherwise benign young men of the left were said to transform under a full moon — or in the glow of a computer screen. Online agitator. Leftist know-it-all. Is the Bernie Bro back? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z But these lone villains are routinely depicted as abusing a magnificent and fundamentally benign spy apparatus. How Hollywood softened us up for NSA surveillance 2013-06-16T18:00:14Z They canceled the Dixie Chicks for the most benign comment. The "race-obsessed liberal" nightmare: "We have to fight for a country that doesn't love us back" 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z He subjects the students to a series of trust exercises that at first seem benign. Fast Times at Citywide Academy for the Performing Arts 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Looking like a bloated Father Jack from Father Ted, Sean Hay's heavily padded Murdo is a more benign figure, weird bodily habits notwithstanding. Sweetness ? review 2011-03-15T18:23:25Z "You know I'm disgusting," she laughs, and you wonder if it's the benign presence of Frisell by her side who helps her feel so winningly at ease. Marianne Faithfull/Bill Frisell – review 2013-06-24T17:20:25Z The four scroll paintings in the elevator, acrylics on canvas, appear benign enough at first — all proper, pleasant-looking or ruddy-cheeked characters depicted from the bust up. Remember the Haunted Mansion stretching portraits at Disneyland? Now you can own one — for a price 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Keep all those adult fantasies of clever, curious, benign children. Jean Stafford’s Novels Frankly Survey the Kingdom of Childhood 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The title, “The Idiot” — as with “The Possessed,” cribbed from Dostoyevsky — seems like an unfair indictment of gentle, hardworking Selin, but at its root, “idiot” is a benign word, even a strangely sweet one. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Your husband’s venting may seem benign to him because it is not about you, but remind him that it is directed toward you and that it affects the way you see him. Ask Amy: Wife worries about impact of divorce on child 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z SoundCloud rap is hardly as limp or as purposefully benign as Chillhop’s study music, but the genres do share a sort of practiced nonchalance, a heavy dedication to chill. Against Chill: Apathetic Music to Make Spreadsheets To 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Mother herself, played with benign obliviousness by Carolyn McCormick, utters streams of soothing phrases, ignoring both her husband’s acidities and her children’s increasing discomfort. Theater Review: In Will Eno’s ‘The Open House,’ Dysfunctional Dynamics 2014-03-04T03:00:03Z The most benign of these pictures carries this caption: “Children in the camps scavenged constantly for food, eating rats, insects and undigested kernels of corn they found in cow dung.” Books of The Times: ?Escape From Camp 14,? by Blaine Harden 2012-04-11T21:17:16Z The benign citizenship performance that most Americans were engaged in was simply not sustainable. The president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on race relations in the Trump era 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The violence of the shows was stylized, even benign, and that too seems innocent now. An Appraisal: Fess Parker, Davy Crockett and the TV Tie-In 2010-03-21T21:41:00Z In Brooker’s mind, “Black Mirror” treats technology as if it were a drug whose side effects— some benign, some dire — are being analyzed. 'Black Mirror' reflects a high-tech world with wicked style 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Photograph: Twentieth Century Fox Since then, scarier visitors have replaced A.I.’s benign aliens. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z They sure can, said “Breaking Bad,” and demonstrated the point by transforming a benign chemistry teacher into a homicidal thug. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: A Chimp With a Machine Gun 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Whoever sent it, the tone was benign: “Hi Laura, the cell phone going off is part of the show … when he says it’s okay. It happened in the two times I saw the show.” The Cell, the Spell and the Mystery of ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Then, in the spring of 2012, he was hospitalized with pneumonia and underwent surgery to remove a benign tumor from his colon. ArtsBeat: Bobby Womack Says Alzheimer's Could Be Cause of Memory Loss 2013-01-02T17:35:06Z She’s one of the few pretenders to the throne who has humanity and would become a benign leader. Game of Thrones: A Massive Fight is Coming 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z “It’s either intent to promote heterosexual families or at least a benign neglect of alternative families,” she said. The Case for Redefining Infertility 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z I had internalized the idea that love is having someone who cares about every utterly benign detail of your travel. Words With (I Wish We Were More Than) Friends 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Those high, pulsing chords linger as a kind of benign tinnitus, a hazy sonic membrane for moments of greater clarity to break through. BBCSO/Volkov – review 2013-02-17T14:00:17Z Mr. Charlap seemed to be holding back, the better to allow Ms. Stewart to weave her benign spell. Music Review: Sandy Stewart and Bill Charlap at the Oak Room - Review 2011-11-04T22:29:44Z For all his deceptiveness, Mr. Gandhi is not an egomaniacal prankster but a benign teacher whose “mirror” philosophy involves uniting the everyday self with the ideal self. Movie Review: Vikram Gandhi’s ‘Kumaré: The True Story of a False Prophet’ 2012-06-19T22:02:15Z She was three, nearly four, and inhabited the space between a baby and a child, far more interested in the older kids than the benign beings at her own table. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z If Jones’ diatribes were directed at a more benign subject, like sports, we might think him merely eccentric — a fun heel to hate, like Skip Bayless. Could Alex Jones possibly be a brilliant artist? 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The painting has a classical frieze-like style, evoking ancient Roman buildings as it portrays Pope Sixtus as a benign patron of culture. Oh, the power of papal portraiture 2013-03-12T15:28:35Z Its enemies are the Idirans, a religious, humanoid race who resent the benign powers of the Culture. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z Creepy as some may have found him, he was pretty benign compared to a lot of what else is out there now. Let’s Talk About Hugh Hefner’s Political Legacy 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “WDCH Dreams” is a benign work, an unalloyed vision of artificial intelligence as partner rather than threat. Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall Is Technodreaming 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z To some extent, this represents a benign shorthand used by many critics. Why David Chang Matters 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z My own Facebook account seemed to exist only for the purpose of enabling me to peer into the relatively benign world of my keyboard-tapping daughter and her out-of-town cousins. Mommy has anger issues! My daughters are pre-adolescent, I’m pre-menopausal 2014-05-10T23:00:00Z Early reviews had been unflattering — The Hollywood Reporter, earlier that day, had called it “a bad show for benign reasons.” Their Show Flew Under the Radar. TikTok Blew It Up. 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the crop is not being grown by benign hippies, but by a pair of very unpleasant characters, one of whom happens to be a corrupt policeman, DI Dickens. Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke by Peter Benson ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z It was not clear whether the lesion was benign or malignant. Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has surgery for lung lesion 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Over a four-week period, the officers identified around 600 tweets they deemed discriminatory, data that formed the gold standard by which the AI would test if a message was “malignant” or “benign”. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z After a surgical procedure, the problem was revealed to be a small, benign cyst. In new book, Stern talks regret, and how therapy changed him 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z The comedies in which natural realms are benign, healing influences play particularly well outdoors. | Theater: Inconstant Moon? No Problem 2013-07-18T21:53:48Z “The funny thing is, I look back at those things. They’re so benign, but at the time they were volatile.” The Smothers Brothers mark their CBS firing 50 years ago 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z But the narrative jury-rigging, free-range paranoia and benign neglect of plausibility are the same. ‘Trigger Point’ Review: Pure Pressure à la ‘Line of Duty’ 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Over the years, Dad and I had found our way into an easygoing détente of benign weather talk. Jill Soloway Tells the Personal Story Behind “Transparent” 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Trump has provided this toxic American moment with its own distinct soundtrack — his rallies feature a variety of benign rock songs played at unforgiving volumes. Authoritarian hold music: How Donald Trump’s banal playlist cultivates danger at his rallies 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z He said he was also reluctant to mention his benign Parkinsonism to avoid “the very dire idea” associated with it in people’s minds. James Levine to Return to Conducting in 2013 2012-10-12T00:00:06Z Kidding aside, freedom from unwanted touching in the workplace — whether benign, as your boss’s appears to be, or more predatory — is your right. Social Q?s: What a Workout 2011-04-01T21:17:41Z Fernandez is a true opera singer, from Philadelphia, who effervesces with wonder and benign hauteur. It Took Me 40 Years to Watch the Movie ‘Diva.’ It Was Worth the Wait. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Zuckerman portrays Mercer as “a peculiar but largely benign figure within the company” who liked to zing his liberal colleagues, but mostly kept his own counsel. How to Beat the Market 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Vargas Llosa, who turned 80 last month, came here this week for a more benign form of spectacle, a prize ceremony. Mario Vargas Llosa on Love, Spectacle and Becoming a Legend 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Two years ago, Michael J. Fox had surgery to remove a benign tumor on his spinal cord. When It Comes to Living With Uncertainty, Michael J. Fox Is a Pro 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z His condition was benign, the match withdrawal necessary but not alarming. Félix Auger-Aliassime Is Trying to Stay Calm 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z We hate being conned, but we still love to be tricked – it simply has to be benign. Trick questions: Dynamo and Penn and Teller have brought very different magic styles to our screens 2011-07-29T09:44:00Z But don’t believe for a second that he’s necessarily turning over a benign leaf. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Casualties of war 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z He was throughout his life deeply committed to the ideals of freedom and equitability, but equally he detested the infringement of systems – however benign and altruistic they might claim to be – upon individualism. Alan Sillitoe obituary 2010-04-25T14:15:00Z Most of us like to think of ourselves as benign, decent, nice people. Review | Let’s face it, we all have the capacity to be mean. ‘Spite’ explores why that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The picture shows his nose covered in a dressing after the removal of a basal cell carcinoma, a common and usually benign type of skin cancer. Hugh Jackman posts sun safety appeal after getting skin cancer removed 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z He leaves home and walks until he collapses, experiencing bouts of what the security guard at his law firm calls “the walking thing” and one baffled doctor diagnoses as “benign idiopathic perambulation.” 2010-01-13T22:45:00Z “Is it? If something as benign as political correctness can kill something, that thing is sick. That is not a thing that is robust,” Gadsby says. Hannah Gadsby broke comedy. So what’s she building now? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z That book repeated the story about Samuel Hopkins, while also generally depicting slavery as “a benign institution” and enslaved people as “contented and loyal,” Professor Jones writes. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z This was a backward-looking collective fantasy of an idealized antebellum world in which slavery was so benign it couldn’t possibly be counted a major factor in the Civil War. We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Following Rice on his forays into the woods, where he senses a benign “presence,” is like walking into the forest primeval. Bears and Poets: Endangered Prey in This Week’s Crime Column 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Most crucially, he never faced the dehumanizing weapons and tactics of modern asymmetric warfare, in which death can arrive, unseen and unanticipated, even from the most seemingly safe or benign of encounters. A Misguided Impulse to Update the Greek Classics 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The audience in Austin responded with benign appreciation throughout, neither protesting nor pitching anything but the gentlest question to the director in the Q&A afterwards. SXSW 2011: The Beaver - review 2011-03-17T10:10:14Z It was the voice of a benign storyteller, a deeply romantic true believer with a heroic vision of American history and the African-American contribution. Music Review: Allan Harris Performs at the Metropolitan Room 2010-04-06T22:27:00Z His first presidential campaign ended largely because he appropriated language from a British politician, Neil Kinnock, a literary theft that today seems almost benign. The power of words in crisis: Who hits mark, and who misses? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z How benign a partner to African development will China prove to be? Review: ‘Facing East’ Examines Chinese Influence on African Cities 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Their idea of stress is almost touchingly benign. Perspective | Do you really want to live in a world where ‘Friends’ and ‘The Office’ are TV’s most valuable shows? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Olivier Widmaier Picasso, a grandson descended from the artist’s mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, who published his own biography of Picasso, holds a more benign view of his grandfather’s legacy. Picasso’s Granddaughter Plans to Sell Art, Worrying the Market 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Chronic lateness is a personality characteristic just as much as smiling or shyness or empathy or mothering or woolgathering, to name a few of the more benign. Chronic lateness: That’s just me, says reader 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Obviously, this letter could contain some fairly benign issues. Ask Amy: Son wants to peek into mysterious envelope 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Using turtles as performers is of course a far more benign manipulation, but is nonetheless troubling. | 'Turtle: The Incredible Journey': The Call of the Wild, Heeded With Tenacity 2011-06-23T21:49:05Z Obama then goes on to read Washington’s celebration of retirement and being able to enjoy “the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart.” Barack Obama Joins Lin-Manuel Miranda on a ‘Hamilton’ Remix 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Repeatedly, critics asked why they used the word “sketchy” — a vague, subjective term fraught with all kinds of cultural and socioeconomic judgments — rather than something more benign. SketchFactor: Starting with its name, safety-focused app leaves many uneasy Overnight, the benign sensations of the 1990s were replaced by something much more chill, and menacing. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z But we didn’t want our parents’ benign conflicted Judaism. I was an invisible woman 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Deploying humor as a weapon, Lincoln emerges from the history books as a benign and democratic figure, ultimately a champion of slave emancipation. Lincoln Served Six Ways: Reframing a President 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The film makes an adventurous departure from the traditionally benign view about mermaids. Penelope Cruz adds spice to enjoyable "Pirates 4" 2011-05-12T15:28:37Z The ship was also a powerful metaphor for ideals of good governance, and the wise, humane ship’s captain remains a staple of science-fiction fantasies of leadership and benign authority. Review | NGA’s exhibit of Dutch marine art skates over issues of slavery and colonialism 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Some of the misinformation that Mr. Stone, who consistently mispronounces Mr. Chávez’s name as Sha-VEZ instead of CHA-vez, inserts into “South of the Border” is relatively benign. Oliver Stone?s Latin America in ?South of the Border? 2010-06-26T01:42:00Z Fairly benign song titles – “Flies,” “Owls,” “Woodpecker” – are merely doorways into worlds shaped by dreams, folk tales, science fiction and the couple’s wicked imaginations. Handsome Family sing 'language of dreams' 2013-07-12T16:06:00Z He’s unpredictable, open to the ideas of his band members and to creating benign mischief. He’s an Old Soul, In a Young Way 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z There is something a little milquetoast and benign about that phrase. Paul Rudd, Larger Than Life but Still Nice 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z So perhaps “The Notebook” is guilty only of a benign awareness that a system once existed. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z It’s a place apart from the vast, benign lap of America.” A New Novel Asks, What Is More Powerful, a Microphone or a Gun? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “Yet such flat and unhurried beginnings are subversions concealing a powerful slyness. Trevor’s stories traffic in plots, fated or willed, and hurtful. They may be coiled in pity, but they are never benign.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z This is a compact island with a benign climate and lots of green space. The big bike helmet debate: 'You don’t make it safe by forcing cyclists to dress for urban warfare' 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Even though he makes the arrest sound like a benign adventure, he is describing overly aggressive policing that evades accountability and escalates a minor transgression into something far worse. Hannibal Buress Meets the Moment 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z In those early days of relatively benign lies, Kellyanne Conway sounded like a parody of the Ministry of Truth when she announced that the Trump administration was relying on “alternative facts.” Perspective | Conservatives crying ‘Orwell’ are downright Orwellian 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z And Mr. Johanson, who wrote the text he speaks, is a benign and amusing presence, talking of social rituals both avian and human. Review: In ‘The Loon,’ the Birds Can Coo. Can You? 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z “For a very benign process that almost never ends up in surgery, it is miserable for the people that have a really severe case of it,” she said. What is frozen shoulder? Symptoms, treatment and a possible pandemic connection. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z But after an especially vivid comment in response to a benign clip she’d posted about Easter, an idea took root. Isabel Hay: Hating the haters 2012-06-11T15:30:00Z Adam, smart and chatty and a little grating in the usual Duplass manner, is a more benign specimen, though he isn’t initially enthusiastic about studying with Cariño. ‘Language Lessons’ Review: Who’s Zooming Who? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z "It's a parallel universe and I hope it's a benign satire rather than destructive." Olympic satire 'Twenty Twelve' hits close to home 2011-04-07T11:46:05Z Still, I was confused — where did my father get the story about a benign little hospital suicide? Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Auerbach’s portrait of an after-hours grocery store — as benign a setting as one could imagine — takes on an aura of almost Gothic menace. Review | Dathan Auerbach got his start as a horror writer on Reddit. Now he’s back with ‘Bad Man.’ 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Myths can be benign, creative explanations of traditions or beliefs, or they can be malevolent lies presented as dangerous truths. Enter "Sandman," right on time 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Within these seemingly dull, benign bureaucratic systems, Mr. Lewis encountered devoted public servants struggling with understaffed and neglected agencies while confronting potentially catastrophic risks. Michael Lewis’s Next Book Promises to Be a Page-Turner — About Government Bureaucracy 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z "New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign," he added. Alec Baldwin stopped by cops while biking, goes off on city online 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z And so we live atop a fault line where even the benign has the power to crack the foundation. Motherlode Blog: Negotiating Pettiness and Heartache in the Modern, Blended, Non-Brady Family 2013-12-22T13:51:47Z From time to time I caught her micro-expressions – usually benign tolerance of my tell-tale flushed face and enlarged pupils whenever I was around her husband. Pamela Stephenson Connolly: 'I did my best for oldie power' 2010-12-21T08:00:02Z Fish who are thoughtlessly kept alone in tiny bowls — that’s no good either, but the intent is often ignorant or benign. One photographer’s mission to change the way we look at animals 2013-12-28T21:00:00Z The seemingly benign dead haunt the flat screen in two languages — "Les Revenants" and "Resurrection." Forget Halloween. TV shows have thrills and chills all year-round 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The disease spread to her brain, causing seizures that sparked bizarre but benign hallucinations, like a Renoir painting or a spinning odometer. Amy Tan, the Reluctant Memoirist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z But, in general, for younger readers, Eva created wizards, witches, harpies and ghosts who scared in a generally benign fashion. Eva Ibbotson obituary 2010-10-24T17:13:00Z If management insists on saddling you with a superfluous overseer, a benign bystander beats a micromanager every time. Work Advice: A superfluous supervisor who doesn’t do much but take the credit 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The "New American Dream" music video doesn't lack for imagery that is equal parts trippy and grotesque — a turtle shell-clad McConnell feasting on Trump's face is one of the more benign images. President Trump devoured by Mitch McConnell in John Cameron Mitchell’s strange music video 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Affectionately referred to as a “little green monster”, jealousy is not, in fact, benign. I can’t come to terms with my boyfriend’s female friendships | Dear Mariella 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z That seemingly benign piece of equipment – the hardware of American democracy – is, as several experts explain in HBO’s Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections, nothing more than an obsolete computer. Hack the vote: terrifying film shows how vulnerable US elections are 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Things seem benign, even positive, at first, until events escalate and Father sets in motion a catastrophic final plan. Ti West's 'The Sacrament' finds horror in a realistic cult tale 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Well, however chaotically presented they were, films on TV were a benign gateway drug. Peter Bradshaw on watching films in the digital age 2012-07-29T18:30:01Z At the beginning of her tenure with her parents, there were a lot of seemingly benign, little spats, and then, she says, “it just exploded.” You probably didn’t expect to move back in with your parents. Here’s how to make the best of it. 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z There’s no disputing that Maier was peculiar and prickly, and that her interests spanned the benign and the morbid. Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z Whoever said a garden was necessarily a benign environment? Art Review: ?Claude Monet: Late Work? at Gagosian Gallery 2010-05-06T22:49:00Z So begins the eccentric and utterly marvellous reign of Betsey Trotwood: simultaneously one of the most benign, and alarming, aunts in literature. Literary aunts: the good, the bad and the ugly 2011-03-25T13:43:17Z The minutely varied emotional range communicated by her brow furrows and laugh lines is a reminder of what’s lost when actresses Botox their faces into permanently benign freeze frames. Movie Review: ‘Just Like a Woman’ Follows Sienna Miller Across the Plains 2013-07-04T21:07:18Z In some cases, the microbe remains benign in the new host as it was in the old one. ‘Ebola,’ a History by David Quammen 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The coverage of her death across all types of media, untainted by facts or insight, finally dispelled any notion of a benign press or a quality press where the famous are concerned. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Because our climate is relatively benign there aren’t hard and fast rules on what to do when. As autumn leaves fall, here’s your checklist 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z "I thought it was soft and touristic – it felt benign and old fashioned, and I wanted stuff that was more edgy." Oldest swingers 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z And yet the atmosphere around them remains fairly benign. Steve Jobs: the afterlife 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z No matter how benign these parents might believe their own behavior to be — unless the stranger is costumed as a Disney character at a theme park, that’s just rude. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mom yearns to share adult sons’ news with her ex 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z The red velvet cake, with its artificial coloring and benign cocoa sweetness, has always been about commercialization. Red velvet cake’s path from gimmick to marketing craze 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z And the casework, way out off the grid, is challenging to say the least; a bear is one of the more benign figures in the story. Beth Macy’s 'Factory Man,' Michael Lewis’s 'Flash Boys' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Right now, just be the father of a man with a cyst, which is usually benign. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Be upfront about son’s cyst and promise him you’ll be there 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z The “Meditation” portrays the ocean as benign and wondrous; the Doughty, as roiled and powerful. American Folk vs. Academic Art 2013-01-31T13:00:00Z After exhibition, this majestic sculpture made from easy-dissolving paper and corn polymer — benign materials — was lowered into the English Channel to decompose. Review: John Grade's 'Circuit' at Seattle's Davidson Galleries enlists nature as a collaborator 2010-09-23T20:24:00Z But those with mild or no symptoms are applying lessons they learned the first time to make this period of self-isolation more productive, peaceful and benign. Best Quarantine Yet? 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Let’s let Mr. O’Brien say something else: “Being with him is like being with a benign pachyderm who’s terrified he’s going to put his foot down and accidentally crush you with his intelligence.” Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z I prefer one benign dictator to tell me what to do. Our House Is a Very, Very, Very Fine House 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z His vocals are more benign, but they scratch against their surroundings. Genres Collide on Mount Kimbie’s Cold Spring Fault Less Youth 2013-05-31T09:45:20Z And values, benign and poisonous, expressed in objects from the past are in the air we breathe. ‘Carpeaux Recast’: A Sculptural Gem With a Knotty Back Story 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Is there no difference between the cancerous and the benign? Term of Affection? Ethnic Slur? Theater Union Decides That ‘Gypsy’ Must Go. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z When the conversation slows down or becomes too chummy, Ms. Moore shifts characters into the intensely needy girlfriend who is dramatically disappointed in a benign response. She Swipes Right on Tinder, and Everyone’s in on the Joke 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z “Birth” is perhaps more benign to its protagonist than any of the evening’s other plays, and given Ms. Adair’s sensible yet magnetic Sara, it seems only fair. Review: Ireland in Four Dimensions, by a Pioneering Playwright 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Even in the solo cello's most rhetorically longing paragraphs, the orchestra was always a benign but discreet companion, the soloist's unconscious mind perhaps, which deepened the reflectiveness of the concerto even further. LSO/Sado – review 2013-01-15T18:29:01Z Sometimes this style can turn into a gushing love letter to the city, depicted as a benign playground for grown-ups with no serious consequences. Funny, Kooky and Short on the Net 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z That energy is not at all benign; for Gielen, the violence in Beethoven’s scores is as much a part of their humanity as their idealism is. His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z I know lots of people who’ve had biopsies, and the vast majority—around 80 percent—turn out to be benign. I wasn’t supposed to get breast cancer 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z I would behave less like a fungus and more like a benign tumor — a mass of cells content just to be, lacking the need to metastasize and invade its closest neighbors. Is it cancer?: My paranoid health scares 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z The literary aspirations that animate Jacobs-Jenkins’s young strivers, ambitions that in Act 1 seem amusing and benign, become twisted, even sick, in Act 2. Review | Tell your friends about the disturbing ‘Gloria,’ but do not tell them the plot. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Moynihan survived even the leaking of a memo in which he urged “benign neglect”, not as some thought of racial justice, but of impolitic discussion of it. The odd couple 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z While residents earn millions each year from the tourists who come for sing-along tours of sites featured in the film, they traditionally view the visitors with benign disdain - and occasionally as pests. Sound of Music comes to Salzburg 2011-11-22T12:01:05Z Maintained with what she calls “a strategy of benign neglect,” by the time the family put it on the market, “decay was general: Shingles had detached from the exterior like a self-peeling banana.” Summering at Martha’s Vineyard with the Clintons and Katharine Graham 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z This sequel to “Nobody’s Fool,” set 10 years later in the same upstate New York town, presents engaging characters and benign humor. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The garden itself is benign; it’s our ambition to accomplish miracles in a single afternoon that is treacherous. Gardeners, it’s time to retool 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z In the case of Omicron, some are meeting the naming overlap with benign curiosity or humor. What’s in a Name? If It’s Omicron, a Minor Marketing Challenge. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z But they never become neat, or easy to interpret, or lose their benign chaos. Sculpture's lost in the third dimension 2010-05-12T20:35:00Z Despite its intensity, the fan presence is viewed as benign and respectful by cast and crew. The return of Sherlock: ‘Being a hero isn’t about being bigger, richer, more powerful' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Knife fights are not infrequent, but it would be an uncharacteristically benign episode of Peaky Blinders were Tommy Shelby to be threatened only with razors. Cillian Murphy: ‘Is this it, for the rest of my days?’ 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z And I can’t escape tears when the outgoing president hymns “the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government.” ‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z What that amounts to is a benign form of fatalism, a humility that the rest of the movie upholds. ‘Cry Macho’ Review: The Good, the Bad and the Poultry 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z But if losing yourself to the sentiments of an audience is a kind of madness, it’s a temporary insanity, one that is usually benign and that can also offer a necessary respite. I Miss Being Part of an Audience 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Matisse created white-on-black linocut prints for the book, among which is a simple, rather benign bull’s head rendered in white lines on a black rectangle. ‘Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts’ at the Morgan Library 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Instead, their anti-heroines respond to what author Harriet Lane calls "the tiny little cruelties and apparently benign interactions that we so easily inflict on each other." Beyond "girl gone mad melodrama" — reframing female anger in psychological thrillers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z At supper each night, my parents and I worked our jaws around overcooked London broil and benign lies about how good the dinner was. I’m terrified of the cicada onslaught 2013-05-20T23:45:00Z Aside from Vanessa’s occasional instruction and James’ intermittent toe sucking, the conversation that flowed easily between the three of us could have come from any benign dinner party. Dominatrix for a day 2012-11-04T01:00:00Z The effect is benign, even pretty, but the implications less so. Review | In the galleries: Intellectually engaging, visually striking and open to interpretation 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Burden continued to amuse the heavens, and himself, with multifarious benign but startling feats of wit and engineering—far too many, each highly specific, for a few examples not to belie. The Danger Artist 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z In a tone that makes clear that she has done an instant X-ray and discerned an ambitious young operator beneath the benign exterior, Hester quips, “I think I saw that movie.” Theater Review: ‘City of Conversation’ Charts a Sea Change in Washington 2014-05-06T02:00:01Z Rather than a bandleader, Dylan is a benign creative vampire, sucking the life force from his musical colleagues, the first with no equals, then and now. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z “This has been a benign object, and everyone’s wearing it,” she said. Pantyhose That Make You Think 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z All those visitors leave a mark on the environment, whether from the growth in tourism infrastructure or something as seemingly benign as the repeated use of the same trails. Practical Traveler: Up Close, but Doing No Harm While Traveling 2012-06-20T14:27:35Z Hoitsu seems not to have gone the demonic way of “Waves” again, turning instead to more benign subjects: courtly tales, portraits of mythical poets, and the creatures and seasons of the world. Art Review: Rimpa Painters at Japan Society and the Met 2012-09-27T22:19:07Z Omicron Sensing is one of many organizations whose name was benign a few weeks ago but now calls to mind a highly transmissible variant of concern. What’s in a Name? If It’s Omicron, a Minor Marketing Challenge. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z It was benign, healthful and quite compatible with teetotalism. A Man in a Hurry – by Nick Harris, Helen Harris and Paul Marshall 2012-06-29T21:55:06Z McGraw and his colleagues argue these results provide evidence supporting the “benign violation theory” of humor. Psychology helps explains why Louis C.K. is so funny 2013-12-18T13:15:00Z In front of these drawings at the Met, I fell in love with David again: with his intensity and his frigidity; with how, in his shadow, today’s “political” art looks as benign as patty-cake. In Paris Then, in Kyiv Now, Visions of Freedom and Bravery 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z “It would be one thing if their callous indifference and rank hypocrisy were benign, but it's not.” Jon Stewart, defender of American values: How comedians are redefining patriotism now 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Hidden uses of turmeric include mixing it with yogurt for a homemade facial that, through a benign lens, is meant to only soften and heal sunburned skin. Golden milk, Hindu pilgrimages and a state mental hospital: A personal history told through turmeric 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z It is a seemingly benign work plundered by the West, now being shown to the West, triumphantly enlarged and reconstituted. Art Review: 12 Heads Do the Talking for a Silenced Artist 2011-05-04T20:27:23Z The piers were not benign places, and Mr. Baltrop knew it. He Captured a Clandestine Gay Culture Amid the Derelict Piers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Drawing inspiration from Conan Doyle and EW Hornung's Raffles stories, Leblanc obliged by creating a flamboyant and ultimately always benign trickster figure. Lupin: introducing anglophone audiences to a more socially conscious gentleman thief 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Yet far from being monstrous or grotesque, it's an oddly serene and benign presence. At Davidson Galleries: Robert E. Marx's curious creatures 2012-09-27T00:00:08Z Her parents are small presences in this book, and shockingly benign. Alison Bechdel’s Latest Offers Familiar Pleasures in Brighter Colors 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Sometimes ignorance is benign, a natural part of growing up. Get to know the lesbians! 2013-01-27T22:00:00Z And at least one parent expressed to me that when she worries about all the things her teenager could be doing — drugs, drinking, sex — a little dress-up on Facebook seems rather benign. Motherlode Blog: For Teenage Girls, Facebook Means Always Being Camera-Ready 2012-03-07T17:05:43Z And while the impulses behind such acts are benign – he wants to take on the bullies, to protect the weak – he can't help but become aware of the contradictions of his position. Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III ? review 2011-07-29T10:43:00Z His outspoken French wife berates him: "You made their empire seem benign and just." Light Falling on Bamboo – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z His wise and benign presence, even playing a villain – hard for those of us who only see him as one of the opera world's great heroes – gives added authority to all. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2012-09-29T23:07:03Z But malignant narcissism is to garden variety Narcissistic Personality Disorder what a malignant tumor is to a benign one. What Donald Trump's tweets reveal about his mental health 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z In comparison to the caricature of the cheer mom, soccer moms were just a benign voting bloc. The Highs and Lows of the ‘Cheer Mom’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z But these lone villains are routinely depicted as abusing a huge and magnificent, fundamentally benign spy apparatus. Hollywood has inured us to NSA-style surveillance 2013-06-14T16:28:00Z Considering the plantation’s history, I’m surprised to learn that the ghost rumored to haunt Haig Point’s lighthouse is, if not friendly, at least benign. Less than a mile from Hilton Head, this S.C. island couldn’t be more different 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z It’s benign self-deception, and it is why we avidly follow sports teams, drink beer to excess and get drawn to religions that promise eternal life. Gene Weingarten: Why I laugh in the face of death 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z "Associated with" and "increase the risk" always sound so benign to me. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The photo caption on Instagram was benign enough -- but it sparked an outpouring of support. Ai Weiwei regains passport; social media and art world supporters cheer 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The program notes suggest that "Compos Mentis" seeks to address "mysteries of the mind and the universe" through the use of rituals and routines that range from "the benign to the extreme." Manifold Motion's 'Compos Mentis': a little too spacey 2012-03-20T18:45:04Z It was a very benign, vanilla conversation, but I do feel like part of the issue is that younger comedians look up to older, veteran comics, and we seek guidance and advice from them. Listening to Louis C.K.: An Interview with the Comedian Jena Friedman 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The architects clashed publically for many years — "Architects like to work on their own," as Silverstein explains — but now take a benign, diplomatic tone in interviews. What Took So Long? Why the World Trade Center Still Isn't Finished 2011-09-09T09:00:00Z The stakes were impossibly high, Fischer writes: “No human experience, from the most benign to the most momentous, would again need to be lost to history.” 12 New Books Coming in April 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z And no broadcast network in 2017-2018 had more than one show in its top five that primarily trafficked in violence, even of the more benign broadcast-network kind. Does Netflix have a killer problem? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z There's this wonderful storyteller, Steven Spielberg, making benign movies that are enormously successful, while I'm mainly known for making movies about people shooting and cutting each other up. Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn dies aged 88 2010-09-29T17:03:00Z This policy of withdrawing the military over time signaled nothing like a return to benign neglect of the American colonists. An excerpt from William Hogeland’s “Autumn of the Black Snake” excerpt 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Forest Whitaker, who plays Cecil as an adult, wears his own face as an impassive, benign mask, gazing kindly and patiently at employers who cannot fathom the pain behind it. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z Thus the broader drugs should never be used in these more benign settings. Drug-happy doctors are unwittingly creating antibiotic-resistant superbugs: How overprescription puts us all at risk 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z He designed and built an eyeless animatronic head that realized H. R. Giger’s parasitic beast in “Alien” and the benign, musical aliens of Mr. Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Carlo Rambaldi, Movie Maestro of Special Effects, Dies at 86 2012-08-11T00:01:55Z They also battled against less benign foes, and found a place in the hearts of child and childlike viewers. Clip joint: five of the best creatures in 80s fantasy cinema 2013-07-24T13:35:27Z In between songs she was shyly cheerful, during them she was transformed, whether raising her voice in anguish or emoting over the benign hum of a cello. Green Man festival ? review 2011-08-22T17:15:00Z The positive part of nature positive is actually doing something to improve an ecosystem as opposed to just being a benign force. How to Travel the World While Putting Nature First 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z His sparring with his wife, wonderfully played by Estelle Harris, with equal force and a much higher voice, were formidable fights but benign ones. In Jerry Stiller, the Rage of Jewish Fathers Found a Hilarious Outlet 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z She wrote that the film, about the intimate friendship between a 10-year-old boy and a benign, petlike thing from another world, “reminds you of the goofiest dreams you had as a kid.” Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z He most famously weighed in against it during halftime of a Redskins-Cowboys game in 2013, telling viewers that the name is “an insult, a slur, no matter how benign the present-day intent.” Some in the news media are still offended by Redskins name, even if Indians aren’t 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Shortly after the rollout in May, she was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a five-day hospital stay to treat what her aides called a benign kidney condition. Melania Trump, a Mysterious First Lady, Weathers a Chaotic White House 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s part of an audition, of course, but the minute a brand puts the footage online as part of a marketing campaign it loses even the appearance of being benign. Gucci’s Diversity Drag 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Judged by today’s standards it may seem a little unpalatable but it was very much a benign intervention back in 1970s Ireland! I have a serious crush on my teacher – should I tell her? | Dear Mariella 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z She advises “separating the real harassment from the benign behavior that seems to come with the territory.” Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z In addition to the obviously unacceptable items, the TSA also rules out objects that appear benign but harbor a dark streak. The weird afterlife of banned TSA items 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It requires an effort of cognitive will to reconcile his benign persona with the fact that he served 12 years for attempted murder and drug trafficking. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z But we have created a culture that shames even benign participation — laughing, crying, taking a selfie as the lights go down. How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Seen in its most benign form here we have the reverse. My stepdad won’t stop watching porn in our house | Mariella Frostrup 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The quiet felt palpable and benign, offering space for me to imagine not only the work before me but the work of the future. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Over more than two centuries, our conviction that we are a benign people, with only the best of intentions, has absorbed the blows of darker truths, and returned unassailable. After Senate’s report on CIA interrogation tactics, it’s time to see who we really are 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z In both cases a visitor to the bathroom pierces the heart, or in poor Rita’s case severs the jugular, of a benign domestic facade. Girls, Insecure and Stranger Things: how bathrooms became TV’s safe space 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z If the internet is the fictional doctor and scientist Bruce Banner, furtive and a little troubled but basically benign, meganets are Incredible Hulks, snarling and uncontainable. Move Over, Metaverse. Here’s Something Meaner. 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z These contemporary images are benign compared with the numerous, fearlessly critical, bawdy, scatological and otherwise impolite pre-20th-century pieces in the exhibition. Art Review: ?Infinite Jest? at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-09-15T21:19:50Z And it sounds benign; it’s not like they even touched me. Christine Lahti’s Tales of Feminism, Sex and Aging in Hollywood 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z He gave us the raggedy childhood insights of Fat Albert and later the benign patriarchy of Cliff Huxtable, who was the kind of the father many Americans, of any race, wished they'd had. In Bill Cosby saga, feelings of betrayal and vague complicity 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The most common problems for singers are benign polyps, cysts, granulomas and nodules, which are growths akin to calluses that develop on the vocal cords. Why Voices of Singers Like Adele and John Mayer Are Stilled 2011-11-19T00:03:47Z The game allows friends to establish sister cities or rival cities, which enables some entertaining cross-border acts of charity or benign sabotage. Video Game Review: SimCity Social Is a City-Building Video Game 2012-07-10T23:02:23Z This would have prompted a wave of trucking movies that shifted skiploads of toy cars, and a Spielberg space franchise full of benign aliens with no Dark Side. Can you imagine a world without Star Wars, Harry Potter or Oasis? 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Her gynecologist was operating on what we thought was a benign cyst that ended up being one of multiple cancerous tumors in Taylor’s abdomen. Our first and last home 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z It features helium-high vocals, but something about them suggests not facetiousness but its benign cousin, playfulness, as though Frank Zappa's mordant humour had been tempered by Brian Wilson's knack for harmony. New band of the day ? No 895: ANR 2010-10-26T15:39:00Z In addition to his bibliomaniacal father, there is the Barber, who not only cuts hair and shaves faces but also devotes his razor to less benign pursuits. Review | ‘The Plotters’ is a chilling portrait of a killer for hire 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z It seems benign to say that, but it's a pro move. "It's a pro move": What Leslie Bibb learned from acting vets, from Robert De Niro to Carol Burnett 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Like other actors with a talent for putting a benign, even boyish, mask over unclean intentions, Keegan would be well-advised to keep in touch with the devil he knows. Review | In Ayad Akhtar’s play about Wall Street’s wicked ways, even the good guys live in a world of moral ambiguity 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Constructed of blond wood and outfitted with windows, the frame building looks benign and beckoning. Review | In the galleries: Noelle K. Tan’s photos develop interest with obscurity 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Nolan Mack, his alter ego in “Boulevard,” is a benign but pathetic milquetoast who goes through the motions of a comfortable middle-class life without enthusiasm. Review: Robin Williams as a Hustler-Hiring Husband in ‘Boulevard’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Most of her pieces here are made of flax paper over steel frames, emulating the elegant contours of leaves and shells but also the more complex — and sometimes less benign — structures of microorganisms. Review | In the galleries: Artists make use of Asian iconography via paper and sculpture 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The seemingly benign packet of nutrition plans that Sarah receives in health class begins an obsession with which foods are good and which are bad — an obsession her mother encourages. Body Language in Middle Grade Lit 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z In a further step toward recalibrating her self-improvement plan, Plum takes a meeting with Verena, who leads what is either a benign cult promoting body acceptance or a strange clique advancing shadowy agendas. “Dietland,” Reviewed: A Bleak and Giddy Subversion of Beauty Myths 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Vogel sees this absence as emblematic of a “benign censorship” in American theatre. With Her Eerily Timely “Indecent,” Paula Vogel Unsettles American Theatre Again 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z These untitled works, all the same size and square in format, grab you at first but then fade into a kind of benign decoration. Art Review: Ellen Gallagher Gets a Retrospective at the New Museum 2013-07-04T23:53:39Z He plays a politician heading towards the White House whose meeting in Manhattan with ballet dancer Emily Blunt leads to his discovery that the world is being monitored by a benign conspiracy. The Adjustment Bureau - review 2011-03-06T00:18:00Z If was to wreak any benign havoc, it would have to do so on quality. ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Is Rex and ‘Flight’ Has Great Liftoff on a Busy Post-Storm Weekend 2012-11-05T00:27:22Z In a constantly mutating pantheon of divinities, other Egyptian goddesses also assumed feline attributes but were more benign. Art Review: ‘Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-07-25T21:29:11Z Its title comes from Mr. Perry’s own descriptions of his childhood as a benign rabblerouser in rural England. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Stomach cramps and strange dreams follow dinner; and as her unnerving visions intensify, Melanie suspects her hosts’ intentions might be less than benign. Review: In ‘Don’t Leave Home,’ Irish Folklore Meets Catholic Guilt 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The online vote barely made a ripple in this benign sideshow. Perspective | Trump’s presidential turkey pardon felt like a reality show meets absurdist theater 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z That importance gained new dimension in the summer of 2022, when I was diagnosed with a benign tumor the size of a lime near my pituitary gland. U2’s Music Shaped My Life. Then It Helped Save It. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z That sounds more benign than it was taken by many in the poetry community, where, to an extent, mystery is a virtue. Poetry magazine well-versed in criticism 2011-06-20T21:14:00Z The choice might be evidence for any number of things, some malicious and some benign. A Late-Night Talk Show Is Not the Presidency 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Ethan Hawke’s “Seymour: An Introduction,” part of the New York Film Festival’s documentary lineup, portrays a more benign teacher, who attends to his pupils’ spiritual health as well as their musical skills. ‘Keep On Keepin’ On,’ a Film on the Jazz Great Clark Terry 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “Doing theater, anxiety is the baseline, even in the most normal, benign of times,” Irwin said. Can Physical Comedy Work on Zoom? Bill Irwin Wants to Find Out 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z “Basically, benign neglect is the best way to describe it right now,” said Julián Castro, the previous HUD secretary. Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z However the method, she has changed herself into someone who looks like the manicured socialite, the moderately successful commercial actress, the benign political wife. Why the Strong Reaction to Renée Zellweger’s Face? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The paintings in his second solo at Charlie James Gallery show landscapes of tangled tree limbs and churning seas along rocky coastlines — otherwise benign places where a Hitchcock thriller might unfold. End times for Luke Butler at Charlie James Gallery 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Wouldn’t benign jokes about airplane food be the real test of his craftsmanship? Political Correctness Isn’t Ruining Comedy. It’s Helping. 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z If you listen closely to Mr. Gondelman’s intricate jokes, what becomes clear is that he uses his benign affect as a cover for some combative ideas. Sick of Angry Comics? Try Some Sweet-Tempered Stand-Up 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The night nursery is slightly more benign with grotesque monkeys. Stairway to heaven: Jimmy Page’s castle is his home 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Within his benign cultural fief, Mr. Schwartz is a star maker, whose passion for the most arcane details of popular musical history is boundless. Music Review: Saluting a Radio Man Who?s One of a Kind 2011-07-14T22:48:03Z In some respects, a sort of benign neglect has been the house’s best friend. | West Village: A Town House in History and Now, in Fiction 2010-08-08T20:52:00Z Toward that end, he presents the benign rhythms of their lives — a little girl playing hopscotch in one camp, Iraqi women smoothing flatbread dough on cooking stones in another. 'Human Flow,' Ai Weiwei's feature-film debut, takes on the global refugee crisis 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Only an MRI could determine decisively, but whether it was malignant or benign, it could be fatal to the baby. The agony of ending a wanted late-term pregnancy: three women speak out 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Almost through osmosis, I learned to see the flag’s presence as a benign symbol of a proud legacy, a politically neutral reminder of a true history. Shoot first, ask questions later: The destructive downside to America’s cult of DIY personal security 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Mostly, though, Ben is the benign face of patriarchy, a gentler, kinder father figure who comes equipped with a laundered handkerchief and the wisdom of the elders. Review: ‘The Intern’ Proves Experience Doesn’t Have to Start at the Top 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Initially benign, these turn “Blair Witch”-y as the art becomes more environmentally pointed. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Moreau’s character, Sarah, is a benign star orbited by three disparate colleagues. ‘Lumière’: An Actress Destined to Be in the Light 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z If it hadn’t been for increasing opposition, he continues, “a more benign and pragmatic Johnson might have emerged.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Silver is the author of acid-dripping comedies like “Pterodactyls” and “Raised in Captivity” about families that make the term dysfunctional sound positively benign. The Week Ahead: Oct. 9 ? 15 2011-10-06T15:27:01Z The whole point of literature is to expose us to different ideas and different eras, and they won't always be nice and benign. The last 'n-word' 2011-01-05T12:02:58Z In his first major film, "Iron Island" in 2005, families live and work for a benign dictator on a rusting beached cargo ship. Defying political pressure, Iranian director keeps camera running 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z But the relationships among tourist sites, visitors and locals aren’t always the same, and some destinations are more benign than others. "Joker" fans flocking to a Bronx stairway highlights tension of media tourism 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Evan’s initial contact, in which a creature gracefully accepts a piece of gum, seems benign. Movie Review: ‘The Watch,’ With Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn 2012-07-26T23:50:07Z Induced or cesarean section deliveries at 37 or 38 weeks was until recently widely considered benign. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2014-03-13T18:13:24Z Though the movie doesn’t always glamorize their backstage life, it takes a benign, even noble view of the two principals. Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio's uneasy relationship with 'Jersey Boys' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z I’ve finally begun to practice benign neglect — the wordless shrug, the see-one-performance-not-all-of-them, or the questions about the game I didn’t attend. Motherlode Blog: Confessions of a Mother Who Couldn’t Say ‘No’ 2013-07-26T14:04:06Z Fungal psychedelics are usually more benign to their human hosts, Sheldrake says, but are similarly powerful. Whether You’re Making a Meal or Cleaning an Oil Spill, There’s a Fungus for That 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Along with “my parents,” which other candidates offered, it’s pretty standard and benign; there’s no reason to read too much into it. Perspective | The ‘Wife Guys’ of the 2020 presidential race 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z It contributes to the insidious notion, promulgated by Peggy Noonan and other conservatives, that Trump’s rhetoric is embarrassing but essentially benign. Perspective | Liberal satire is getting dangerously lazy in the Trump era 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Compared with the freaky climate at home, the volcano seemed predictable and benign. Gardening lessons learned from visiting a Mexican farm 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Bureaucratic benign neglect likewise sustains dozens of German opera companies, whose proliferation is a point of national pride. 2010-01-21T08:58:00Z In a quiet, authentically scary scene, Mike Colter, as the icily benign Lemond, admitted that the tape was real but claimed that he was just “blowing off steam” and didn’t plan to hurt Cary — yet. 'The Good Wife' Recap: In a Campaign Commercial, Alicia Shows Off Her Acting Chops 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z The omission of women and people of color from something as benign as book research illustrates the real challenge of unconscious bias in data and algorithms. Opposing Views on What to Do About the Data We Create 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The contents of the box, and the motives of the apparent miscreant carrying it, turn out to be far from malevolent — in fact hilariously benign. | 'Neighbourhood Watch' : ?Neighbourhood Watch? by Alan Ayckbourn at 59E59 - Review 2011-12-08T03:17:19Z What McLaughlin’s design lacked in formal grandeur, it made up for in what Goldberger describes as its “benign quirkiness”: the ad hoc arrangement of its grandstands, its famously shallow left field. Summer Reading 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Skinner the witch is no benign, all-embracing earth mother but an intemperate obsessive. Theater Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Howard Barker, at Atlantic Stage 2 2013-07-17T21:11:30Z He was in a sense a master of crowd control, but a benign master with an ethical core who never lost sight of the value of entertainment. Mike Nichols' theater legacy: Laughter and tears with equal genius 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “Anonymity isn’t profitable,” states one expert flatly; another reminds us that we should treat such entities like companies out to make money, rather than “some benign public utility.” SIFF 2013, week 2: 11 movies to see 2013-05-23T18:03:35Z Drawing from Flickr, YouTube, other websites and data streams, the works all enact shifts in context and structure that trigger a sense of instability, a dislocation that ranges from amusingly benign to psychologically daunting. This police video, 'Time Machine' and the scent of 'Apocalypse' will linger in your brain 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Apparently shocked into insanity by this benign kidnapping of her son, Liliana Cunningham hangs herself in the local asylum. The Devil Walks by Anne Fine ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:09Z The 23-year-old was forced to cancel a string of live dates and award show appearances when she underwent surgery in Boston last month to treat a benign polyp on her vocal cords. Adele's "21" becomes top UK album of 21st century 2011-12-05T14:06:26Z In “Sunset,” Close devours Michael Xavier, a benign piece of eye candy. A divine showing of divas put the ‘broad’ in Broadway 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z And it’s ornate facade makes a statement. He writes: “The museum’s skin — has that typically benign architectural term ever been more charged? — allows it to stand apart from the Mall’s white-marble monuments like a rebuke.” Essential Arts & Culture: A new museum on the National Mall, Arthur Miller reimagined, the 'Vermeer' of L.A. 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s an explicit signal to link the two parts of this book, to see the horrifying endgame of Minna’s seemingly benign orientalism. Immigrant Lives, Back to Back and Upside Down 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z We could chalk up her ability to wear fame as a loose garment to the relatively benign media ecosystem of her time. The Media Equation: Elizabeth Taylor: Famous, but on Her Own Terms 2011-03-26T17:36:52Z Bhagavan, too, takes a more benign view of the newfound attention. 'The Wolfpack's' isolated brothers relate to world through movies 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Using revealing new material from those closest to Ike, Mr. Thomas describes a cagey, caustic, volatile figure whose benign smile was his biggest bluff of all. Janet Maslin’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:46Z But their reuse of paper that would otherwise be discarded indicates a more benign, less profligate sensibility. In the galleries: At Osuna, scarlet makes a splash amid Hamami’s black-and-white 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The detainees in the Ritz were told they were guests of the king, but their treatment was far from benign. ‘MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman,’ by Ben Hubbard: An Excerpt 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z In a business populated by midnight prowlers mining bottomless pools of pain for their standup routines, Rogen is exceptional for his benign temperament. Seth Rogen: the slacker's guide to getting ahead 2013-06-21T23:01:00Z In fact, I’m not the first person meeting her to be reminded of a benign professor. Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z They may well believe that, like the hairless, passive and benign feminine allegories of grand masters' paintings, women naturally do not have any body hair. Pubic hair removal: The naked truth 2011-02-11T07:00:02Z It made her a transgressor, which means even her most benign songs could be read with mischievous intent. Taylor Swift's '1989': New Album Review 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z And then Tom and Rachel meet, in person, to face a more benign uncertainty. | 'The Internet': Love Among Leah Winkler?s Webbies at St. Mark?s Church 2010-08-15T21:23:00Z Of the top four - better than most top fours in “Idol” history - Mr. Colon was the most predictable and benign. Critic's Notebook: ?The Voice? Finds Itself, and Some Stars 2011-06-30T11:05:24Z What British film needs is not another Thatcher, but politicians who can show an actual interest — or at least politicians whose neglect is benign. Margaret Thatcher: the Iron Lady of British film 2013-04-09T07:00:06Z Only once do social media become a benign force in the film as it allows David to Skype his mother. Filipino film highlights dangerous power of social media 2014-02-09T17:12:41Z “Tár” says that the fundamental structure of the field — the persistent over-glorification of the podium, casting even benign conductors in a paternal role — is the problem. In ‘Tár,’ a Female Maestro Falls Into the Same Old Traps 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The seemingly unfunny bits of dialogue that triggered most bouts of laughter might still be benign violations, says Pete—just violations that are so benign they’re only laughable when you’re right there, in the moment. Why laughter makes no sense: The surprising science behind what tickles our funny bones 2014-04-09T22:59:00Z Mr. Berry’s words, with a first verse that begins, “Fine little girl she wait for me/Me catch the ship for ’cross the sea,” are in fact completely benign. Jack Ely, Who Sang the Kingsmen’s ‘Louie Louie’, Dies at 71 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Meningiomas, tumors of the meninges, are usually benign tumors that can require resection when they become symptomatic. The Jane Goodall of neurosurgery 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z They were sites of benign accumulation, with a vaguely regal, devotional aura. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z “If you are taking medication for the first time, see how it affects you in a benign environment,” he said. In Key Largo, fin-to-fin with the denizens of Florida’s revitalized coral barrier reef 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z He was pain-free and unencumbered by the benign Parkinsonism. James Levine to Return to Conducting in 2013 2012-10-12T00:00:06Z And in my experience, people treat kebabs with benign neglect. Grilled kebabs: The secrets to perfectly done meat, vegetables and even fruit In Brazil's benign climate, concrete structures require no expansion joints and there are no problems of insulation or condensation. Oscar Niemeyer obituary 2012-12-06T00:35:38Z Unfortunately, it’s Joseph’s form of beauty she’s fixated on: unearned, specifically male, powerful, and not necessarily benign. This Week in Fiction: Fiona McFarlane on the Power of Beauty Withheld 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z There, the actor was relatively benign as an Army Captain whose mission is to inform next-of-kin of soldiers’ deaths. Rampart: Woody Harrelson Shines as L.A.'s Dirtiest Cop 2011-11-26T14:00:46Z Though his surreptitious gropings are characterised as "more appreciative than exploratory", and Matthew Kelly's performance appears wholly benign, the inescapable fact remains that he's a sexual predator who locks the classroom door. The History Boys – review 2013-05-23T17:23:59Z She has been aided in such explorations by the fact that the impact of the illness has, in her case, been relatively benign. A Daughter of Kronos Revisits Quartet?s Fold 2012-02-24T20:17:42Z Technology is now widely considered benign and even liberating, which it wasn’t during, say, the Industrial Revolution. Review | In the galleries: Science expands nature art, on grand and minuscule scales 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z In fact, I wondered whether it is in this attention to childhood that something dark, some great loss, would be found at the heart of Chabon's otherwise benign world. Maps and Legends, Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z The British singer suffered a setback this month when she underwent surgery in Boston to treat a benign polyp on her vocal cords, which was causing recurrent bleeding. Adele aims for big night at American Music Awards 2011-11-20T20:06:37Z However, these things don’t scare me; they’ve simply curdled in a warm bath of benign neglect. If Shonda Rhimes Can Say Yes, So Can I 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z If this is some kind of creeping infection, it is a benign and often giggly joyous one that eventually floods the stage with pulsating colour and showers the audience with brightly coloured confetti. White 2010-09-01T20:45:00Z “Inadequate” seemed like a fairly benign term to describe her choices. Perspective | Ask Amy: Ex-boyfriend seeks repentance 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z The follow-up reveals that the first test was just a fluke or the result of a benign condition. False-Alarm Medical Tests 2010-06-23T17:40:00Z Confessions of a Mother Who Couldn’t Say ‘No’ When my first child was an infant, the doula handed me an article that championed benign neglect. Motherlode Blog: Confessions of a Mother Who Couldn’t Say ‘No’ 2013-07-26T14:04:06Z This time it was a northern orientation, which is "pretty benign," Kunches said. Solar storm shakes Earth's magnetic field, could intensify today 2012-03-09T12:36:00Z In the first, Gone Baby Gone, there's a benign conspiracy involving honourable public servants; in the second, The Town, a heist by likable Boston crooks. Argo – review 2012-11-11T00:05:47Z But, jokes aside, he adds, it’s best not to consider it a benign condition. Why you snore, when to be concerned and how to stop 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Like its author, with his deceptively benign and innocuous appearance, the book had the stealth force of a jalapeño disguised as a bell pepper. David Sedaris Leaves His Audiences Weeping. And Still Wanting More. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Though a bit uninspired, one of the book’s primary messages is that magic can be found in the everyday, the seemingly banal or benign, the here and now. Magic Mountains: Novels of Appalachia From Natalie Lloyd and David Barclay Moore 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Iris Prince believes that following the rules will save her from racism — that if she makes herself as benign and palatable as possible, she will thrive despite her brown skin and Mexican heritage. In ‘My Name Is Iris,’ a Mother Learns the Limits of Protectiveness 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z For all that, Don is a far more benign character than those Mr. McBride plays on the television shows he makes with Mr. Hill. The Summer of Josh Brolin Continues, on Netflix 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The word itself conjures benign images of hobbyists with tweezers and sixth graders with shoeboxes. Art Review: Alternative Worlds Where Even McMansions Are Tiny 2011-06-16T23:06:49Z But it is also intensely pleasurable: Barker's sheer energy is irresistible, while the intelligence that drives this small comic universe is both spikily awkward and sweetly benign. Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker 2010-05-14T23:27:00Z “The nude body has become so benign to us. I’m partly trying to re-sensitize viewers to it. To convey that it belongs to a person,” Gribbon said. In Newport, Artists Turn Tables on the Gilded Age 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z That's about it, but as with all of Miyazaki's works, it's full of benign spirituality, prelapsarian innocence and joyous discovery, all rooted in a carefully detailed reality. My Neighbour Totoro – review 2013-05-23T21:15:01Z Emotional tumult, eyes boring into the ground, irked by the benign tone of the conversation. My liberal white male rage: What should I do about it? 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z “The problem is, sponsors aren’t always going to be as benign as ‘Orange is the New Black.’ Must-see morning clip: Native advertising is dangerous for independent journalism 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z This process is happening in all bacteria, pathogenic or benign, leading to super strains that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in New Zealand's wild cockles and watercress puts people at risk 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z You seem to see this as a benign question, but I find it incredibly nosy and personal. Ask Amy: Family looks in the closet after mother’s death 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z You bet your life Topics: , , Gambling, , , Of all the destructive habits in the world, gambling would seem to be one of the more benign. You bet your life 2012-09-13T17:20:00Z Among the more benign accusations lobbed at him was that he was undeserving. Review: In Mo Yan’s ‘Frog,’ a Chinese Abortionist Embodies State Power 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Quiet, benign, his gestures small but eloquent, he barely talks except about the music. Colin Davis Brings London Symphony to Carnegie Hall 2011-10-16T01:25:19Z Once the pork is ground, mixed with spices and stuffed into casings, the fat sausages are hung on racks and sprayed with a benign white mold that fills the room like fog. Italian-style salami, made with American pigs, powers growth of a Virginia business An ad line for the movie says it “puts the high back into high school,” but that doesn’t do justice to the mostly benign freakout when the school loses its collective mind. Movie Review: John Stalberg Jr.’s ‘High School,’ With Adrien Brody 2012-05-31T22:21:00Z Human hands are thrust onto the stage again, but this time with far less benign consequences. Review: Urban Nightmares as Puppets in ‘The Paper Hat Game’ 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z “I’m glad he’s challenging them and I hope he succeeds,” he said, adding that registration “is not as benign as they maintain.” This American sells Russia radio airtime. The U.S. says that makes his firm a foreign agent. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z She did spend five days in the hospital last month for what the White House said was a benign kidney condition. Where is Melania? John Oliver has a guess 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Skylights shaped to emulate the veil’s grid float like a benign cloudscape, bathing the art in light. Open doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Even the most pleasant or benign events can send his narrators into paroxysms of misanthropy or despondency. Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z It’s Ma’s benign neglect that is at the source of Tillett Wright’s malnourishment and general malaise, yet she’s the one who fights hardest for her “kitty.” Questioning Gender Amid a Chaotic East Village Childhood 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It started about eight years ago when out of the blue I started getting unexplained surges in adrenaline at the most benign of situations. 'I miss what I used to be like': women's stories of the menopause 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z “If you see a map of the country,” he says, “with the infrastructure for the 300 plants they’re planning, it’s like a spider’s web over the United States. It isn’t benign.” James Cromwell: 'In jail, everyone recognises my face' 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z He loves benign and mediocre; he loves his Ford Flex. Will Ferrell: ‘Ignorance is a key part of comedy’ 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z The mahouts are stoking the campfire, and on the hillside opposite, four elephants – matriarch Thong Kam and three younger ones – keep a benign eye on the handful of humans temporarily sharing their forest home. Thailand’s elephants say goodbye to the circus – and a life of cruelty 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Ideally your friend’s possession of this vehicle might help you replace the terrible and traumatic association with a more benign one. Ask Amy: Friend’s new car triggers traumatic memory 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z George lives in a super benign world, even if it is often strange and unfamiliar to him. The Unexpected Profundity of Curious George 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z “Lord, what fools these mortals be,” as Puck, a more benign identity-shifter, put it. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Finding Truth in Phoniness 2011-07-12T18:22:25Z Suddenly, Robert and Theresa’s behavior no longer appears loopily benign, but coldly calculating, their control of their daughter increasingly apparent. ‘Kajillionaire’ Review: California Scheming 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Often his voice is laced with irritation, though that morning’s confusion felt benign. From ‘Homewrecker’ to Caretaker 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z In the open letter, the authors invoked Alexander Hamilton, who in the Federalist Papers described the presidential pardon privilege as a "benign prerogative." 31 authors urge Obama to pardon Edward Snowden in open letter 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Step into it and you enter another world, an eye-popping garden of benign cactuses spreading out in all directions, or an underwater wonderland of coral or sea anemones. Into the Land of Polka Dots and Mirrors, With Yayoi Kusama 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z But there is another side to Philip Johnson, and it is less benign. A New Biography of the Architect Philip Johnson, the ‘Man in the Glass House’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z And suddenly, “Sakina’s Restaurant” has acquired a new, somber underlining, making us miss a time when ignorance was paired with benign disinterest rather than hate. Review: Aasif Mandvi Makes You Want to Stop at ‘Sakina’s Restaurant’ 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z I, old man, in my new timidity,think how, profligate, I wasted time – those yawning postponements on rainy days,those paperhat hours of benign frivolity. The Saturday poem: Talking to Myself by Dannie Abse 2013-04-05T19:00:01Z North saw the kind of fraternal teasing that was being monetised by his channel, and the panel shows that were its lifeblood, as fundamentally benign. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z About two hours in, the touring concert “Rocktopia,” which is making a six-week pit stop on Broadway, had settled into a benign, dull groove. Review: Roll Over, Beethoven? At ‘Rocktopia,’ It’s Time to Roll Back 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z “They want the film set to function as a democracy, but a democracy is the kiss of death. You need a benign dictatorship. You need a leader.” William H Macy: ‘I’m scared and horny like a 14-year-old-boy’ 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Chapel's complicity also injects a sliver of corruption into her otherwise benign persona, one with broader prominence in a future we've already seen. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" shows how war muddles the moral compass of two of its crew 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z It is sight to behold, Mike back in benign criminal mode, efficiently thieving from thieves. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Every Single Penny 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z A laryngeal surgeon immediately diagnosed the real culprit: a nasty crop of vocal cord nodules - benign, callous-like growths on an individual’s vocal cords, often developing due to overuse or misuse of the voice. GBMC unveils voice therapy music studio 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Among the more benign activities the local residents engage in are deer hunting and poker playing, alongside the occasional dazed stare at a television screen. Theater Review: Thurber’s ‘Hill Town Plays’ Are Produced by Rattlestick 2013-09-06T02:00:01Z “It can change from a relatively benign situation to that very hostile situation unbelievably quickly.” As summer in Antarctica nears, scientists train to endure punishing conditions 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z “With some training and selective food reinforcement, pigeons do just as well as humans in categorizing digitized slides and mammograms of benign and malignant human breast tissue,” Levenson told the International Business Times. Pigeons can identify cancerous tissue on x-rays, study finds 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z His consistent mistake has been to regard these powers as essentially benign, and to see no fundamental conflict of interests between their own priorities and the needs of the poor. The Frontman: Bono (In The Name of Power) by Harry Browne – review 2013-06-26T11:00:03Z You may ask, isn't that the Helen Keller story, isn't that one of our classic stories of a benign teacher saving a disadvantaged child, isn't that a picture that makes you feel good? Arthur Penn: a gentle man and a master of violence 2010-09-30T10:47:00Z Her father, too, was a heavy drinker, "sloppy, sentimental," although "somehow his alcoholism was more benign." Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71 2012-06-27T03:28:11Z Even today, Osment uses “we” when discussing the decisions that he and his family made in those years, as though his career’s trajectory had been guided by a benign collective. How Haley Joel Osment Survived Being a Child Star 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Despite its razzle-dazzle, this staging is by no means a benign vision. An 18th-Century Opera, Supercharged for Our Time 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Is it a benign means of subtle manipulation? Can pink really pacify? 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Of the top four — better than most top fours in "Idol" history — Colon was the most predictable and benign. 'The Voice' finds itself, and some stars, too 2011-07-01T01:04:45Z But mainly these pieces build on the vocabularies of body-oriented Surrealist types — young Dali, Yves Tanguy, Hans Bellmer and Balthus — abstracting them into suggestive three-dimensional shapes that seem both benign and perverse. Tunga: ‘From “La Voie Humide” ’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The veteran comedian is best known for playing Cliff Huxtable, benign patriarch of an African-American family in hit US sitcom The Cosby Show. Bill Cosby Netflix special postponed 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z She’s there at virtually every recording session, but mostly as a benign force sitting next to Lennon. ‘Get Back’ series dispels, and confirms, some Beatle myths 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z His most benign joke, and probably the only one quotable in a family newspaper: "Here's some good news — my grandfather turns 100 years old next month ... maybe." Bumbershoot Day 2: Trey McIntyre and cool surprises 2011-09-05T03:30:31Z Today, neither Lord Clark’s benign pomposity nor his open disdain for contemporary culture would fly. Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z It is an antidote to the hysteria of modern life; in a sea of toxic masculinity, Pera cuts a benign figure, though he isn’t into the idea that the show is in any way political. 'The shipping forecast, with jokes': Joe Pera's brilliantly boring comedy 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z My daughter dropped one in the gutter of a jet way, that slimy track whose most benign purpose is to catch run-off germs from the soles of strangers’ shoes. One carry-on bag and one personal item 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Even his most trivial works – televisions turned into robot aunts and uncles, cameras aimed at eggs so we can watch them like passing phases of the moon – have a benign and almost innocent air. Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha 2010-12-19T21:30:02Z A high-ranking general is unusual benign in expression. ‘Terracotta Warriors’ exhibit makes grand entrance at Pacific Science Center 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The new research, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, "challenges the current paradigm that sensitization without overt allergy is benign." Food allergies might exacerbate cardiovascular illness, new research finds 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z It is the direct opposite of the white entitlement and white privilege which presumes the inherently benign nature of whiteness and the dangerousness of black and brown people. White spaces, white privilege and white fear: Negrophobia still contaminates America 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The twin crimes against humanity — genocide and slavery — which lie at the heart of the nation’s founding belie any innocent notions about the country’s essentially benign character. Forget “dialogue” with Donald Trump and his supporters: They have empowered hatred and harm 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z But when he realized his ability to raise money was an asset, well, maybe it was benign after all. Mitch McConnell doesn’t care what you think. He just wants to win. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Glasper meshed its groove with Minimalist repetition of percussive chords and arpeggios and a suggestion of “A Love Supreme” — a more benign Western intervention. Seun Kuti at the Highline Ballroom 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Famously witty as an individual, his music is full of subtle humour, well represented in this gentle, occasionally dark but finally benign comedy. La Cenerentola - a musical guide 2012-06-19T12:21:43Z Compared with what my dermatologist was giving me, this treatment seems benign. Sunblock in lip balm linked to chapping 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z In its more benign form, only a few beats from ambition, anxiety is, in part, what made Mr. Trump as a businessman. Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z It's typically benign and develops from the protective linings of the brain and spinal cord. Sheryl Crow has brain tumour 2012-06-06T14:57:08Z It makes the meal cohesive, it adds moisture to dry proteins, it adds color to nondescript dishes, and it lends flavor to dishes that are a bit … benign. 5 classic sauces to add to your cooking arsenal 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z A biopsy of my enlarged lymph node showed it to be benign. The Dress Promised Me Something the Doctors Couldn’t 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z The benign ones invite the viewer to pet them. Jurassic Park 3D: Excitement and Extinction 2013-04-05T09:45:06Z It’s never clear why Dickie has a soft spot for the kid, other than it gives Tony a narratively convenient, relatively benign replacement for his more floridly violent, often absent dad. ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ Review: The Best Really Is Over 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z We may believe that Mao was, for much of his career, a monster, but when we see him over and over playing benign, made-for-the-camera-roles, we can lose sight of that. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The shelves of benign notebooks that had sat so innocently in their cupboard, had been hiding monstrous cries of agony from the mother I had thought was just cold, quiet, inaccessible and ineffectual. ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z The film takes his words at face value — even though it doesn’t show his face — and takes for granted that his deceit was benign, motivated by his ambition to study medicine and overcome adversity. ‘My Old School’ Review: An Impostor Makes the Honor Roll 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Finn’s low tolerance for separation was something of a benign mystery; Blaney sometimes wondered if he had been weaned too early. Her dog went missing in the middle of the pandemic — and a neighborhood of strangers found a mission 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Short of stature, and with a broad smile, Granado remained a benign observer of Cuban developments and, in later years, became a permanent source of anecdotes about Guevara. Alberto Granado obituary 2011-03-07T19:25:12Z While that show generated controversy because Mr. Daisey exaggerated and fabricated some descriptions about the laborers, his new work, “All the Faces of the Moon,” involves tall tales of a benign sort. ‘All the Faces of the Moon’ Is Monologues on New York 2013-08-15T02:00:01Z But Mr. Bigelow also originated benign roles, including the cheerful tuba in Robbins’s “Fanfare” and in works by other choreographers. Edward Bigelow, Dancer With the New York City Ballet, Dies at 93 2011-04-08T03:11:36Z This is a transformation of our environment of a wholly benign kind. A Sting in the Tale by Dave Goulson – review 2013-05-18T11:00:02Z Following two hip replacements, compressed discs and near fatal pneumonia, she survived surgery for a benign brain tumour. Life of a screen legend 2011-03-23T13:07:55Z A benign interpretation of these results is that college friends know each other well; thus a portfolio manager would have an advantage in judging the quality of a CEO he went to school with. Can’t a capitalist be moral? 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z A week after announcing Be Best in a Rose Garden ceremony, Trump underwent kidney surgery for what the White House described as a “benign condition.” A tiny staff. An aide’s abrupt departure. That jacket. Why Melania Trump’s Be Best is off to a slow start. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z When they emerge, they look like devils, complete with horns and tails, but their behaviour seems utterly benign. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z In truth, the patriotism, flags and fanfares of the Last Night are benign, good-humored, and not lacking irony. Last Night of the London Proms: A Sonic Potpourri 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z But even when the story hits the expected moment of someone discovering the painting — which forces Kempton's hand, and he returns it as if he had simply borrowed it — it feels surprisingly benign. In "The Duke," Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren make a real-life art heist charming 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Movies such as Rosemary’s Baby, the Exorcist, the Omen, the Wicker Man and the Devils portrayed black magic, paganism and the like in direct opposition to the benign tenants of Christianity. Black magic surgeon: Doctor Strange brings the occult back to the big screen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z He seems uncomfortable with the attention, however benign in essence, and why wouldn't he be? Keanu Reeves: 'I would've broken Kubrick' 2011-01-13T21:30:01Z The play among the a work’s title, caption and material presence provokes connections that are mostly grim and occasionally benign. In Cameron Rowland’s ‘91020000,’ Disquieting Sculptures 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Comedy Africans still popped up but they were generally benign, such as Dinka, the naive, portly, generally decent Nigerian in Ice Cube’s Barbershop series. Black Panther: does the Marvel epic solve Hollywood's Africa problem? 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Fagen and Becker’s lyrics have been described as cynical and sinister, and the artists themselves as “sociopaths masquerading as benign dictators,” a reference to their perfectionist methods in the studio. Review | How Steely Dan made its mark on music — and shaped an American cool 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “Where are they? It would be one thing if their callous indifference and rank hypocrisy was benign, but it’s not,” Stewart said. Comedian Jon Stewart assails Congress for ignoring 9/11 first... 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z This practice is creepy, with scenarios ranging from relatively benign to deeply disturbed. Meet your online doppelgänger: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re not really trolling Ann Coulter 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z These actions mystify some people because caffeine is often viewed as the beloved, mostly benign stimulant that gets us through the day. The buzz(kill) about caffeine: What’s really in your morning cup of coffee 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Jack Handey will begin a sentence in a blandly benign narrator tone, then take a sudden wrong turn, landing who knows where: “One bad thing about ice skating is you’re always knocking over little kids.” 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Chase’s past, benign in comparison to Amanda’s, nonetheless holds powerful sway over his present. Best romance novels to ravish in early summer 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s the accidental connection longed for by any customer who suspects that the benign face of a corporation is a distracting facade. Review | Binational playmaking takes exuberant, revealing form in the Russian-American ‘Flash Acts’ 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Tasting blood during or after vigorous physical exercise is a rare but generally benign phenomenon. Do you sometimes taste blood when working out? Here’s what might be happening. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z What a great early lesson to learn about the pleasures of green vegetables, the mysteries of flavor and the fact that the cool months are sometimes the most bountiful and the most benign. Brussels sprouts are best after first frost As with Mapping Wales and Septet, also recorded here, the music is lyrical, melodic, good-natured and benign. John Metcalf: Paths of Songs 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z She is a kind witch, casting her unusual but ultimately benign spell over a hostile and unpredictable world. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z For example, Samuel, although he’s a slave owner, seems at first somewhat benign. #OscarsSoWhite isn’t the only problem diversity faces in Hollywood 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z When the Hubermanns secretly shelter Max in their basement, like an Anne Frank under the noses of the Nazis, he becomes another inspiration for the girl’s benign logophilia. The Book Thief: The Girl Who Fought the Nazis With Words 2013-11-07T20:59:34Z If the film's equation of violence with justice also inspires imitation, its impact will hardly be benign. Oscars 2013: what the nominations say about America 2013-02-21T16:00:00Z Originally, I thought I’d been assigned something really benign, working on the milk money investigation. What it was like to be 18 and investigating the president during the summer of Watergate 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z I'd had a hysterectomy four years earlier, but there was nothing there; it was benign. United front: breasts without the airbrush 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z With 2002's less benign Geogaddi, animated by an interest in religion, mathematics and numerology, the duo attracted the kind of people who spend long nights investigating the internet's more arcane precincts. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-06T20:15:01Z Chronic lateness is a personality characteristic just as much as smiling or shyness or empathy or mothering or wool-gathering to name a few of the more benign. Carolyn Hax: Reader chooses to buck society’s on-time fixation Photograph: Allstar/Film4 Irons shares with Royal some sensibility – “I have the natural tendency of a, hopefully benign, dictator” – but not an aesthetic. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z And the ghost of Sir Arthur George Jennings, who dies after being pushed off a balcony, reappears after each significant killing, offering meditations on death like some benign reaper. Gang stories 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Frivolous anger functions differently, acting more like an opioid than a benign stimulant. A farewell to harms: Meghan McCain exits "The View" but may have tainted it forever 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Radio Garden’s version of McLuhan’s “global village” is more benign — and far more extensive — than the thinker could have imagined. Website allows users to listen to thousands of radio stations around the world 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Some have said Rupert Murdoch's influence on the media has been detrimental, but I believe him to have been totally benign and am certain history will vindicate my view. Digested read: Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg 2011-07-11T20:30:02Z I’d like to note, though, that from his own perspective, he is a sad, maybe even a benign figure, helping the children, trying to get in touch with them. This Week in Fiction: John Lanchester on Ghost Stories 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The monster in “Sea Fever” mutates haphazardly to accommodate the story’s dramatic shifts: in one scene, it goes swiftly from predatory leech to a benign wisp, batted away easily by the heroine. ‘Sea Fever’ Review: A Timely but Derivative Contagion Thriller 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z He is obsessed with his vision of benign euthanasia, and unable to empathise with the growing repugnance of the population as the time draws near to put it into practice. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z He was scanned my test results, which came back benign. My disapproving doctor father hated my work — but we had more in common than I thought 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z And the manifold beauty of galleries filled with charismatic objects nearly persuades you not to remember that art is a record of crimes as well as of benign achievements. Louvre Abu Dhabi, an Arabic-Galactic Wonder, Revises Art History 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z I have come to show the beneficence and munificence of our great and benign government. Ursula Wills-Jones: Vusi Makusi 2011-07-22T22:02:23Z “Different Trains” contrasts benign memories of Reich’s transcontinental American train journeys during his World War II-era childhood with the memories of Holocaust survivors on very different trains in Europe. Seattle chamber-music fest proves the little things among the notes mean a lot 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z He may be benign, but he has a mercurial wit, a cartoonist's eye for the telling gesture, a spiky morality, a gleeful touch of anarchy. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z There’s also an unfortunate whiff of pulp-era “lost race”made it this and not Lost Race tales by writers like H. Rider Haggard√ and A. Merritt√, with a pale-skinned ruler dispensing benign wisdom from above. Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is looking a little long in the tooth 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Somebody – chosen before the show begins; sometimes famous, sometimes not – is invited on stage to share key moments in their life with Phelim McDermott, who presides like a benign chat-show host. Lifegame 2010-07-12T21:15:00Z Dangerously drunk, they ride out to Alloway Kirk, where a troupe of benign witches and warlocks is holding a whist drive for the church repair fund. Truly, fangs ain't what they used to be 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z There is, in fact, nothing benign about the great Dane. Audiobooks for Summer Trips With the Kids 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Furious Mother: As I said in my answer to “Hollywood Hello,” women passing on the street cannot magically decode his benign intent. Ask Amy: Mother should ‘trust but verify’ son’s sobriety 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Even if Amazon were a benign corporation, this would be very concerning, but we’ve all seen that it’s not at all a benign corporation. Authors United founder says Amazon’s control of the book industry is “about the same as Standard Oil’s when it was broken up” 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z But meal prep is not always as wholesome and benign as it may seem. From overnight oats to boiled eggs – is meal prep taking the joy out of eating? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z There are also preemptive shocks for something as seemingly benign as standing up from a desk without permission or raising one’s arms, which center officials say can be a prelude to worse behavior. An electric shock therapy stops self-harm among the autistic, but at what cost? 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z There are “Take Me Away,” a benign club song, and “No Te Rindas,” a slightly less benign club song. New Music: CDs From Leslie Grace, Derrick Hodge and Tye Tribbett 2013-08-05T22:06:12Z This minimal world is a stage for him, and he struts about on it like a scaly provincial trouper, acting out dramatic scenarios and scenes from Shakespeare to dispel the boredom of benign captivity. | 'Rango': There?s a New Sheriff in Town, and He?s a Rootin?-Tootin? Reptile 2011-03-03T23:01:04Z It wasn’t that he did such benign impersonations of Bush that they became friends, he said. In Carvey’s D.C. show with Miller, politics won’t be a centerpiece Measures such as voter ID laws and mass clearings of voter rolls “sound intentionally benign to lull us into ignoring them”, she said. 'We are entitled to being heard': Stacey Abrams on the fight to vote 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z There are benign scenes, like that of a group hanging up laundry outdoors, or one of a Buddhist teaching acolytes, as well as a series of images of women giving birth. White Cube? These 3 Art Shows Buck Convention 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z There’s rage too, but different from that of Mr. David, who often spins into a dark place after a benign trigger. Critic’s Notebook: Issa Rae and ‘Awkward Black Girl’ Are Breaking Ground 2012-07-13T22:54:29Z As benign as the helicopter flight appeared, it was perhaps one of Tur's riskiest assignments in a television news career that's included flying through war zones, deadly storms and gunfire. For Zoey Tur, a new life as transgender woman takes flight 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z It also pretended to be slightly more interesting than it was, full of ponderous ballads and benign banter. Relatable, golden-voiced Sam Smith at the Paramount 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Evaluate prior land use and institute immediate benign neglect. Born to rewild: why now is the perfect time to make your lawn an eco-paradise 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z His records over the last nine years, including the new “Punching Bag,” slide too easily into benign corniness. New Music: New Albums From Grace Potter, Josh Turner and Fly 2012-06-11T22:38:11Z It's one thing to present a benign face while patrons belittle us, make rude comments, hit on us, try to touch us. I’m not going back to work in restaurants — but only because I have a choice 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Everything is benign and assured and at times even sacramental. Die Zauberfl?te ? review 2011-02-11T18:05:03Z These travelers, however, are purely benign: migrating eels. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Before 9/11, but also in 2001, Americans obsessed over a benign and, let’s be honest, entirely brainless sort of disaster: Fox’s “Temptation Island.” Why "Temptation Island" is back and "90 Day Fiancé" is having a moment 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z On the surface a child's preoccupation with personal photos seems quite benign, or even beneficial. Motherlode Blog: Why We Should Take Fewer Pictures of Our Children 2012-10-12T15:55:46Z It was a time of prosperity, naïve optimism and giddy discovery, when the first baby boomers were just reaching their 20s and mind-expanding drugs had their most benign reputation. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z America’s appetite for highbrow whodunits, tabloid true crime, noir reprises, miscarriages of justice may be benign enough as a pastime. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z As often as not, those preoccupations are benign — and can be illuminating and provocative when they’re artfully plumbed. Perspective | Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino and the costs of auteur worship 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Two weeks later, the biopsies came back benign. The Loneliness of the Locked-Down Single Mother 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z His novels, like this memoir, are thoroughly engaging, slightly skewed and touched by a kind of benign, highly communicable lunacy. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins Much of its success is due to the benign, cheeky presence of Rowe. Jack and the Beanstalk ? review 2010-12-03T21:00:00Z The actress, who had a home in Greenwich, struggled with diabetes much of her life and underwent brain surgery in 2011 to remove a benign tumor from the lining tissue around her brain. Mary Tyler Moore, TV star who became symbol of women’s liberation, dies at 80 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Retailers, though, suggest Mr. De Feo’s street art is more benign than that. Graffiti Artist Defaces Fashion Ads, Fashion Embraces Him 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Authorities are looking into his motives, which he says are benign. Interpol investigates 'baby factory' as man fathers 16 children 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Pomme, who is recovering from surgery for a benign brain tumor, makes the first move. ‘If You Don’t, I Will’ Stars Mathieu Amalric 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z We discussed benign things: local weather, national weather, the price of gas. The Thanksgiving this vegetarian finally gave in and cooked a turkey 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The god’s mission: to retrieve and redeem the swastika, which was originally a benign and sacred Sanskrit symbol. Theater Review: ‘Ganesh Versus the Third Reich,’ at Under the Radar 2013-01-10T22:16:35Z Sometimes with Bravo, it just seems benign and I will let it wash over me. "It's a pro move": What Leslie Bibb learned from acting vets, from Robert De Niro to Carol Burnett 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The way I understood parenthood was this: I’d do anything for my baby with a little attempted benign neglect thrown in for good measure. Motherlode Blog: Confessions of a Mother Who Couldn’t Say ‘No’ 2013-07-26T14:04:06Z Its benign genius is its apparent spontaneity and relaxation. In praise of ... David Letterman 2012-09-25T21:35:59Z Strangely, five days on, fury has softened to benign acceptance. Cendrillon; Rinaldo ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:30Z Olowu begins the show by demonstrating that pattern is far from benign, indicating that material culture often reflects the histories of capitalism, colonialism and racism. Duro Olowu Excavates Pattern at the Cooper Hewitt 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z He didn’t want music to become just another benign or comforting life-style signifier. The Weird and Vast and Periodically Devastating Music of Scott Walker 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z It’s as if the writers were afraid that a more subtle display of prejudice would somehow make it seem benign. Television Review: ‘The New Normal’ and ‘Guys With Kids’ Begin on NBC 2012-09-10T21:56:20Z The hallmark of the administration, which presents itself as a benign helper but is really a malignant fascist regime, is an omnipresent eye that punishes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime." In a new era of surveillance and doublethink, '1984' takes to the stage 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Later that year, she performed on the ABC series Dancing with the Stars but missed the finale while recovering from removal of a benign breast tumor. Toni Braxton files for second bankruptcy in LA 2010-10-07T18:29:00Z Isn’t it time we arrived at some more benign and realistic view of creativity? Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Visiting him in an upstate New York rehab centre, Tyson took along sketch pads and coloured pencils; when Davis emerged, he was in the grip of another, more benign habit, one that never left him. Art ? Miles Davis's last addiction 2010-12-09T22:28:00Z Like "Happiest Season," Hugo and Patrick's love story is front and center, but the tension in the film comes from more decidedly more benign, if cliche, conflicts. TV's first crop of queer Christmas movies range from saccharine fun to superficial flops 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z For years, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – a “fake news” show before the term went from benign to malignant – skewered the powerful and punctured the 24-hour news cycle. ‘Vanguard of opposition’: SNL adds Spicer to satire’s resurgence under Trump 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z A giant image of Orwell, a far more benign but still exacting Big Brother, gazed down at the sweltering guests from behind the podium. Orwell prize gets political 2012-05-24T15:50:01Z “Parental Rights in Education” sounds unobjectionable and benign. Perspective | Fans of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill have a new favorite word: ‘grooming’ 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Apparently, these aliens – quickly dubbed the Overlords, though they were hoping for something a little more benign, like “visitors” – will end war, famine, suffering, and most other kinds of unpleasantness. In our paranoid Tea Party age, the benevolent alien Overlords of “Childhood’s End” are a tough sell 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z But when the disease environment was benign, colonists would set up shop, creating a more harmonious society that laid the foundations for growth. No fear to tread 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z That may sound like a small issue, but the vagueness of Gideon's overly benign exile keeps pulling you out of the story. Sting's former self is at the center of 'Last Ship' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z But to the Federation there is no such thing as benign augmentation, making their entire population illegal, including children modified by their parents before they could consent. How "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" uses Rebecca Romijn's Number One to place prejudice on trial 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z “It’s easier,” Ms. Conlin writes, to “preach benign parenting from one’s pretty perch in Paris than it is to import those traits to the trenches of America.” Motherlode Blog: Parenting, American-Style 2012-04-10T16:59:00Z Mr. Burton also said that he sees his version of “Alice in Wonderland” as primarily a lark, surreal and comedic but essentially benign. Film: Drinking Blood: New Wonders of Alice?s World 2010-02-27T02:58:00Z “She’s a very benign presence and she doesn’t interfere in the slightest.” The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z There were some articles recently saying it should be pretty much canceled as it's disgusting, that it perpetuates the class myth, that there was a sort of benign benevolence in certain estates. Hugh Bonneville on the enduring charm of "Downton Abbey" and why he was nervous to film "Paddington" 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Her advice is so self-aware and intentional in its awfulness that it is pretty benign. “Princeton Mom” is back with the same terrible advice: Ladies, plan for your husbands, not your careers! 2014-02-14T18:36:00Z He’s onscreen enough to carry you through “Only Murders,” an otherwise benign grab bag of familiar elements. Review: Martin Short Kills in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Much of this is as benign as a cookie recipe that you only dig out in December. Bet your bottom dollar that NBC's "Annie Live!" will usher in a new inclusive era for an old classic 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Seesawing between humor and pathos, he fails to develop the story’s occasional hints of underlying nastiness that suggest the program is not entirely benign. Review: Drink the Juice, Expel Your Demons in ‘The Cleanse’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Christina Forrer, who was born in Switzerland and lives in Los Angeles, brings a barbed sensibility and a spectrum of rich colors to the often benign art of weaving. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z “Her parents are small presences in this book, and shockingly benign. It is her own mortality she turns to, and all the questions that work and exercise have helped her evade.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Amping up the drama like this doesn’t have to feel cheap; there’s a fine tradition of storytelling as benign manipulation, and in his articles for The New Yorker, Gladwell often gets the balance right. Who’s Lying to Us and Who’s Telling the Truth? Malcolm Gladwell Has Some Ideas 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z There was a benign magic to his presence; even when the plane landed, our feet hardly touched the ground. Joe Klein on Working With Mike Nichols 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Around 22 or 23, I started having benign breakouts. My year of heroin and acne 2013-01-05T00:30:00Z They’re part of the urban fabric, staffed by benign retirees and charged with youthful, antic energy. Perspective | Is Glenstone a great art museum or a billionaire couple’s folly? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z But the lab-made powder bears little resemblance to the plant Americans increasingly see as benign. Spice: Americans turn to dangerous 'synthetic marijuana' to evade drug tests 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z It was benign and I didn't need the radio treatment I'd been about to start. United front: breasts without the airbrush 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z From the start, he was making up benign lies about himself and mixing grave, socially conscious songs with dark comedies. Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Whether manipulative or benign, they all sound the same to me. Modern Love: The Radiance, Then the Ashes 2011-06-09T20:54:29Z That didn’t seem to be a problem, because I was taught that sugar causes dental cavities but is benign otherwise. Perspective | Fat, fructose and calories: 5 nutrition ‘facts’ we used to believe 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Larsen’s feelings about Irene are embedded in her narrative choices and in her chilled reserve, in the archness of her tone and in winding sentences that seem fairly benign until the final telling clause. ‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z They say the “Kennedys” screenplays contain many factual errors, some benign and others less so. 2010-02-16T23:30:00Z Of course, any artist drawn to a symbol so benign probably isn’t the most happy-go-lucky guy on the planet. Up Close: Why Isn’t Nate Lowman Man Smiling? 2012-12-26T23:31:13Z Am I giving the image too benign a reading? ArtsBeat: After a Flap, a Work Draws Attention 2010-12-09T20:09:00Z He was much more benign off his own turf, and did a lot of nodding and smiling. My teenage respect for the rules led me to risk poisoning the whole family 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z There is Mole, the benign, quiet provincial peering at life through thick spectacles. The Wind in the Willows ? review 2010-12-08T22:01:00Z It is a benign and cheerful fantasy, and restorative, like the sight of the year’s first tulips growing next to a freeway on-ramp. 2010-02-11T06:20:00Z I manage to find out the age range of the six-woman, four-man choir – 26 to 60 – before the conversation collapses into benign confusion, with lots of smiling and shrugging. The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z It provides a rare opportunity for us to confront the far-reaching moral consequences of our seemingly benign actions, like driving. Why the Polar Bear Is the Undisputed Image of Climate Change 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z All of this behind the benign mask of democracy. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z But mostly a benign if paternalistic joy at the world prevails. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z But this sometimes gripping show isn’t so benign. Television Review: Playing Hide-and-Seek With a Stash of Cash 2011-08-01T22:58:23Z There’s nothing banal or benign about the hat, no matter its wearer’s intent. Perspective | The MAGA hat is not a statement of policy. It’s an inflammatory declaration of identity. 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The process of ratification is funny: the objective beauty in a benign or omnipresent object is recognized, and then the source material is curated and recontexualized. The Folk Power of Jamaican Dancehall Signs 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The antithesis of a benign nature lover, Kate is an angry and easily provoked woman. Movie Review: Halle Berry in ?Dark Tide? 2012-03-29T23:00:09Z His “Confessions of a White Racist” — he called it “a gratuitous admission of guilt on behalf of all white racists past and present, malignant and benign” — was a finalist for a National Book Award. Author, ‘Whorehouse’ Playwright Larry L. King Dies 2012-12-21T15:05:08Z The singer had a setback this month when she had surgery in Boston to treat a benign polyp on her vocal cords, which was causing recurrent bleeding. Maroon 5, Taylor Swift win American Music Awards 2011-11-21T01:35:22Z Paralleling pest control and racial oppression, this first documentary feature from Theo Anthony presents a collage of ideas that rock gently between the real and the surreal, the benign and the batty. Review: In ‘Rat Film,’ a City of Rodents and Racial Oppression 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Some species have shown promise in cleaning up environmental waste sites, happily digesting toxins and blooming into benign fruit. The Mushrooms Will Survive Us 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Becoming a sex worker is now seen, by an ever-increasing number of people, as a viable, non-judgment-inducing career choice, as benign as working in an office or at any other “straight” job. The new normal: why television has chosen to humanize sex workers 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z In it sits a relatively benign space gun alongside the Johnny 7 OMA gun and then simple sticks that Hopkins' four-year-old son foraged. Guns, grenades and toy soldiers: museum explores children's war games 2013-05-19T15:26:23Z They will use other pesticides, as benign as possible, to save crops. In the Garden: Jefferson?s Vegetable Garden Still Grows at Monticello 2010-07-01T13:37:00Z Fabian's film is so benign and enjoyable, viewers may find themselves uttering one of its heroine's oft-used refrains, "Oh, that's lovely." Lesley Manville is endearing in "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," a feel-good couture fairy tale 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Most infections are benign, and nine of 10 fade within two years. We have a vaccine for six cancers, so why are less than half of kids getting it? 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z It also allowed truth seeking to blur into wishful thinking, as Europeans’ yearning for a benign resolution to the global crisis trumped all rational skepticism. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Luckily, most of our co-habitators are either benign or actually beneficial in some way, like the house spiders that keep down indoor populations of flies or mosquitoes that can carry disease. A Book That Will Make You Terrified of Your Own House 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z When you add it all up, it makes songs like “Movin’ Out” or “We Didn’t Start the Fire” seem benign by comparison. The Fieri-ssance is here: Sorry, Anthony Bourdain — it’s no longer cool to hate on Guy Fieri 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Mostly, Bush got to spout off talking points, branding himself as a benign presence, who was, unlike Trump, a small-government conservative interested in “fiscal restraint.” The Colbert Rapport 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Still damp and stinging, I tried out some of Mr. Höller’s more benign projects. Art Review: ?Carsten H?ller: Experience? at the New Museum - Review 2011-10-27T22:24:36Z It always plays down its influence, trying for a benign image of connecting us all in a warm bath of baby pictures, tropical vacations and games of Candy Crush. Perspective | Facebook’s role in Trump’s win is clear. No matter what Mark Zuckerberg says. 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Thus, scrubbing out references to women’s anatomy in the image was not a benign or neutral act of family-friendly censorship. Perspective | The National Archives used to stand for independence. That mission has been compromised. 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Despite being comparatively benign, “Enter the Void” has proved as polarizing as Mr. Noé’s other films. Film: Turn on, Tune in to a Trippy Afterlife 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z If blackness is perceived as something monstrous by America’s police, then whiteness is perceived as a type of innocence, an identity that is inherently benign and harmless. A 10-year-old boy? An 84-year-old grandmother? Police brutality will not end in America until cops stop perceiving blacks as monsters 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z While the emails are fairly benign, they also show the friendly relationships between government staffers and industry executives. 'Transformers' wins weak Fourth of July. Moguls head to summer camp. 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z These tumors rarely produce symptoms in their early stages, and when they do, their victims commonly mistake what they’re feeling for something far more benign, like constipation. Sniffing out ovarian cancer: Working dogs help in the war on cancer — with their amazing noses 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Every year its pastoral bliss high above Central Park is complemented by some sort of benign sculpture exhibition, usually three-dimensional works of formal decorum or playful ingenuity. Art Review: ‘The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi,’ at the Met 2013-05-16T19:09:59Z As a balm for a latent terror of lethal microscopic airborne particles, I spritz myself each morning in a benign aerosol cloud. A Scented Diary of a Lockdown 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z In the case of this year’s special, “The Snowmen,” to be broadcast Christmas Day at 9 p.m. on BBC America, you may never see a familiar holiday icon in the same benign light. ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special has scary snowmen — of course 2012-12-22T01:12:55Z Before Feb. 24, Prymachenko was regarded as a benign, cheery folk artist. How the War Changed a Kyiv Museum’s View of Its Past 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z By the time Parks took his seat in the Festival Hall to witness its re-emergence, he had long been accepted as a kind of benign enfant terrible of pop. Van Dyke Parks: return of a musical maverick 2012-06-15T21:55:10Z But the tree's presence eventually becomes less benign. 'The Tree': This sad tale will grow on you 2011-08-11T20:58:04Z So far, the film's beaming black drudges and benign white bosses have remained beyond the pale. Blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite may be witty, but is it racist? 2010-08-16T11:25:00Z The broken mug was one of the more benign examples. “I think I remember saying no”: The sexual assaults were harder to get over than my drinking 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z She is less inspired when working in two dimensions, to judge from a series of collages that arrange the patterned interiors of torn-up security envelopes into benign gradations of color. Art In Review: HAEGUE YANG 2012-03-15T21:44:12Z It’s worth trying to understand whether you are being true to yourself in your flight from less heightened relationships, or whether your impulses are influenced by less benign forces. I dump my girlfriends after 18 months. What am I so scared of? | Dear Mariella 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z EDT, when Baldwin, via Twitter, called New York City "a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign." Alec Baldwin: 'I asked for no special treatment' from cops 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z In one of his more benign moods Lévi-Strauss equated existentialism with “shopgirl metaphysics.” Books of The Times: A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z A benign climate blesses their exchange, and he can tell her not that he wishes to marry Harriet, but that he loves her. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z “It is like acting, actually — attempting to make people think that I’m a benign person” Stanfield says. Is Hollywood ready for the brilliant weirdness of Lakeith Stanfield? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z "Everyone's description of du Pont, and I spoke to more than a dozen people who knew him, was that he was benign, nobody could believe he would do what he ended up doing," Miller says. Bennett Miller's 'Foxcatcher' is a true American horror story 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z "The cruelty and unspeakable anguish in Grünewald's altar turned the volume up high, but the image had a benign purpose," he wrote. Why Kenneth Jarecke's gruesome war photo needs to be seen 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Just the combination of regular backyard barbecue conversation — “How’s your golf game?” — juxtaposed with flying off the handle, screaming at your kids for a benign reason. Will Ferrell on Donald Trump, Michelle Obama and His New Movie 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z A spokesman for Massachusetts General Hospital says the British singer underwent vocal cord microsurgery to stop recurrent bleeding from a benign polyp. Singer Adele has vocal cord surgery in Boston 2011-11-07T20:13:08Z Their presence makes Squire feel as if he's dancing in the presence of benign spirits: "It's lovely to feel Merce is here in this space, surrounded by his old friends." Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z Not all patterns are so benign, though, and some reveal more of the true sensibility of the show and its creator, Kevin Williamson. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Following,’ on Fox, Returns With More Gore 2014-01-26T22:13:19Z “Search,” the couple’s most successful collaboration, is a series of quirky characters channeled by a philosophical bag lady, Trudy, who is trying to explain the human race to benign but baffled aliens. Why Lily Tomlin said yes to 'Intelligent Life' without her 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Schubert's sole surviving completed movement for string trio, the Allegro in B flat, nevertheless provided a benign, rippling opener, full of characteristically obsessive figurations from the viola and dying falls from the cello. Leopold String Trio/Osborne – review 2012-07-11T17:00:01Z "Arthur" - Another inferior, unnecessary remake, Russell Brand's comedy at least is benign fluff that should please younger audiences unfamiliar with the 1981 comedy, even if purists who adore the original may hate this version. Capsule reviews: `Arthur,' `Hanna' 2011-04-07T17:01:22Z This is why we are wired to sort sounds as we sleep, he said, to differentiate the threats, or a baby’s cry, from more benign noises. The Sound of Silence 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The implication is that we may be spending hundreds of millions of dollars on ineffective measures or guarding against pathogens that are relatively benign, while lethal strains still find ways to slip through. In food safety regulations, a surprising paucity of research 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z He assigned a benign playfulness to his behavior and said his motivation was crucial to understanding his position. ‘Oxford American’ Editor Fired in Sex Harassment 2012-08-08T22:09:50Z Szablowski interviews two of Fidel Castro’s former cooks who offer a single, benign criticism of the Cuban leader: He was a know-it-all. Review | What’s it like to cook for a dictator? A new book takes us inside the kitchens of Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot and more. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z His benign gaze falls on a sedate clientele of avid eaters glad that this unpretentious spot remains a destination for seriously creative cuisine. A quirky name and creative cuisine combine at Blind Pig Bistro 2012-02-16T21:35:04Z Most viewed it as fairly benign, and I largely did too. What I learned talking to 120 women about their sex lives and desires 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Others include Richard Dreyfuss as a seemingly benign professor, Geena Davis as the hospital’s head of psychiatry and James Woods as the chief of staff. Television Review: ‘Coma,’ an A&E Mini-Series With Lauren Ambrose 2012-09-02T21:56:33Z The puzzling reality is that human depression is increasing in an era when environmental conditions are relatively benign. You’re making your depression worse: Self-help is bringing us down 2014-02-16T16:30:00Z About a tumor, Ms. Schiff says, in words that reverberate over everything she writes, “In fiction, it’s never benign.” Review: The Bold Voice of Rebecca Schiff, in 23 Stories 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z But that literary disguise may be the most benign of Mallory’s poses. If the author of ‘Woman in the Window’ is a serial liar, can we still love his book? 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Music plays a more benign role in the National Theater’s bouncy revival of Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops To Conquer,” which opened on Tuesday night. Critic?s Notebook: London Theater Journal: It's About Time 2012-02-02T15:38:37Z The dark eyes of Anne in the London cartoon become a benign gaze in the French painting. Leonardo swap will make for the greatest gathering of his work to date 2011-07-28T10:39:30Z It's tempting to liken her to a chemist handling potentially toxic substances, but most of the found objects in her assemblages are familiar — and ordinarily benign. What to see in L.A. galleries: Betye Saar, Tom Knechtel, Kay Sekimachi 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The advertising for Turbo tried to make young customers and their moms think it was a Disney or Pixar cartoon, yet the early audience response to this $135-million production was benign indifference. Conjure This: Low-Buget Horror Film Scares Off Pricey Tentpoles 2013-07-21T20:29:33Z At one point, Marker’s narrator compares Greek words to the angels in Wim Wenders’s “Wings of Desire”: benign, invisible, ubiquitous presences. ‘The Owl’s Legacy’ Explores the Glory That Was Greece 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Some observers have a less benign view of Mr. Trump’s rapport with his children. The Other Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z And, in so far as corporations are mentioned at all, they are generally seen as benign forces. The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen – review 2013-04-29T06:30:05Z The city's exhausted residents are dodging attacks by V-1s, flying bombs with the deceptively benign nickname of doodlebugs. Crime fiction: lingering shadows of World War II in three new suspense novels 2011-04-06T23:05:04Z He favors benign lies or the thuddingly obvious stated with conviction. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Laughing, he added, “In this particular case, the danger is seemingly benign children, mysterious children.” In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z And she behaves as if her role is benign diplomacy, rather than what her role should be — acknowledging and fighting against the madness. Perspective | Ivanka Trump is acting as if everything is normal 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z What goes unsaid is that were Blackness politically benign, then it should make no difference if voters were reminded of it. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Veggie burgers are, on the other hand, pretty benign. Beauty is in the mouth of the beholder: why veggie burgers deserve a chance 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z But this benign interpretation is difficult to reconcile with the finding that the positive returns are concentrated around corporate news announcements. Can’t a capitalist be moral? 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z A benign group delirium progressively takes hold as everyone becomes moved to tears in Abramović's presence, many unselfconsciously adopting a hand-on-heart posture. Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present – review 2012-07-05T20:29:01Z Many argue that the Banana King's passion for ballet began when he felt the need to put a benign public face to his business practices. Russia's ballet wars: dancers in the dock 2013-03-13T19:30:02Z It’s a benign role but a modest one, reinforced by the music. Review: Janet Jackson’s ‘Unbreakable’ Focuses on Love Outside the Bedroom 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Manilow gondola-ed effortlessly through it all like a benign force of nature; getting steamed up about him is like shaking your fist at fluffy clouds. TV highlights 18/05/2012 2012-05-17T19:00:01Z “New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign,” Baldwin tweeted. Alec Baldwin arrested for 'belligerent' behaviour with New York police 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Fairly benign song titles — "Flies," "Owls," "Woodpecker" — are merely doorways into worlds shaped by dreams, folk tales, science fiction and the couple's wicked imaginations. The Handsome Family crafts a gem 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z At the end I said: "Thank you for your benign Teutonic countenance," and I don't think they got it. The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011-08-04T22:00:01Z However, these food items are benign and beloved enough that they are actually merchandisable as an identity signifier, unlike, say, valium, a commonly-prescribed benzodiazepine that became known as "mother's little helper." Where are the "wine dads"? How gendered alcohol merchandise speaks to inequity in domestic labor 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z So does Willard White's generously sung Don Fernando, who brings benign solidity to the final scene, despite Pizarro making a reappearance not scheduled in the original. Fidelio ? review 2011-03-30T18:45:01Z The profession of movie director is not one that we instantly associate with the modest and the benign, but somehow, like Anthony Minghella, Demme rose through the ranks. The Loss of Jonathan Demme 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z An insidious nostalgia is spreading, through Member Berries, a grape-like “superfood” that squeals with sentimentality as benign as “Member the first ‘Ghostbusters’?” and as disturbing as “Member when there weren’t so many Mexicans?” So much for hope: “South Park” abandons serialization, apparently all really is lost 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Above in the gallery sat Penny Condry, widow of Bill who died in 1998, and now a benign presiding spirit over the festival. Bill Condry's legacy lives on at Festival of Nature Writing 2010-10-22T15:07:00Z By alerting readers to the ways that modernity’s very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, “Sugar” raises fundamental questions about our world. How Sweet It Is. And How Malignant. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z With furniture, drawings, photographs, textiles, videos and much else, this exhibition forms an immersive visual biography, a fascinating chapter of the British Arts and Crafts movement and a story of relatively benign colonialism. 5 Great Art Exhibitions to See in New York Before They Close 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z On May 14, she was hospitalized for five days following a procedure to treat what the White House called a benign kidney condition. ‘She wouldn’t miss this for anything’: Melania Trump holds first White House event after 24-day absence 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z His fixed expression of benign puzzlement and unfortunate propensity for grunting don't exactly bode well for the next generation of Hollywood leading men. The Green Hornet buzzes to the top of the box office 2011-01-17T16:46:23Z Why is the bonobos’ environment more benign than that of the chimps? Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z This relatively benign expression of Euroscepticism started to turn toxic as the contest expanded in the late 1990s and the UK, along other well-established nations, started to fare poorly. Eurovision: it's time to stop laughing at foreigners 2013-05-17T11:47:54Z Plageman: We assume, Well, it’s relatively benign, and we have no historical precedent for it, until the next Hoover steps up and says, “Thank you for all this fantastic information.” Binge-Watching Picks for Edward Snowden 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Lloyd – long overcoat, benign demeanour, lovely smile – shepherded Diane through her first house party, was sweet to the clients at her dad’s retirement home. John Cusack: ‘Hollywood is a whorehouse and people go mad’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “In the evening, you can smell the Botox,” Hayman adds with benign sarcasm. The 200-Year-Old Bar Beloved by Book Editors and Longshoremen 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z In sharing intricate details of a benign encounter with a young food consultant on the set of a movie she wrote, Wong is finding comedy in fantasy, the glorious sins of the imagination. Ali Wong’s Raunchy New Stand-Up Set Brings the Laughs We Need 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z The Phantom Tollbooth's message is bracing but benign: it calls on us to rise to the challenge of the world by paying proper attention to its wonder and difficulty. Summer Voyages: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster 2013-07-17T09:16:27Z With rows and clusters of boothlike spaces prevailing — many generously devoted to several works by one artist — the totality resembles an art fair, but a benign, dealer-free one. Last Chance: ‘Come Together: Surviving Sandy’ Samples 300 Artists 2013-12-06T23:32:35Z What a California lawmaker intended as a benign resolution honoring a late, world-renowned movie star has exploded into an emotional debate over decades-old racist comments. California lawmakers reject John Wayne Day over racist statements 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, Shchukin’s first purchases were creditable but benign, including a whiff of Romanticism: a lakeside enchanted castle by the Scottish painter James Paterson. ‘Icons of Modern Art’: Picassos, Matisses, Monets, Oh, My! 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Friday morning at 10 he's scheduled for surgery to remove a benign tumor the size of a softball that's pressing on his brain. Despite tumor, radio's Pat O'Day still reaching out to fans 2012-06-29T03:27:04Z They may be coiled in pity, but they are never benign; their pity is unregenerative. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z In a 1,600-word Facebook post last month, Dr. Tyson described the first two incidents as benign and denied the third. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Show Is Pulled Amid Misconduct Allegations 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Parents can’t always find the source of benign aches and pains. Perspective | What’s behind this 5-year-old’s violent play? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z As such, the bulk of the T-shirts and tote bags that are alcohol-themed and marketed to men display a pretty benign indication of enthusiasm. Where are the "wine dads"? How gendered alcohol merchandise speaks to inequity in domestic labor 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z At a recent show most of his jokes essentially involved elaborately making fun of relatively benign things that someone once said. Critic?s Notebook: Todd Barry at Caroline?s Comedy Club 2012-03-21T20:54:48Z Although shots of this figure on the stairs reminded me of creepy Bob in “Twin Peaks,” the ultimate impression is of a more benign spirit, one who apparently just wants to get down and dance. La MaMa Festival Is Still Moving, if Somewhat in Place 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z But not all experiences of unwitting internet fame are so benign. Meet Gavin, the eight-year-old with a face shared more than 1bn times 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Skeptical Hazel comes alive at the innocent touch of Augustus, whose charm is as urgent as it is benign. REVIEW: "The Fault in Our Stars" Earns Its Big Fat Tears 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z But where this latest superfood differs from benign rivals such as blueberries, goji berries, kale and avocado is that a diet rich in coconut oil may actually be bad for us. Coconut oil: are the health benefits a big fat lie? 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Subtitled Once Upon a Time, it conjures up stately Nordic forests teeming with supernatural life that is not entirely benign. Prom 50: BBCSO/Vänskä – review 2012-08-21T15:14:53Z Sure, the benign neglect of hippie parenting had some side benefits. Boomer parents destroyed us: I needed rules and boundaries, not parents who want to be friends 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z |
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