What is "benignly"

Usage examples of "benignly".

Quigg watched benignly for a few minutes this commencement of my studies, and then strolled back towards the house.

Tiny lights brightened within and names floated benignly beneath them.

There was always some of both going on here, a lot of hide-and-seek, some people hiding, some seekingwith El Supremo looking down benignly on it all, raking in his cut.

El Mirador again, Farkas very quickly took cognizance of everything around him: the ring of jolly little cafes, the flowing fountain in the middle, the statue of Don Eduardo Callaghan, El Supremo, benignly looming down to the right.

Sir Francis smiled down on them benignly for a while as he let them give vent to their joy.

Jane stood facing them, her arms thrown over the shoulders of two men, smiling benignly as they kissed her neck, one on either side, and kneaded her breasts.

How infinitely is thy puddle-headed, rattle-headed, wrong-headed, round-headed slave indebted to thy supereminent goodness, that from the luminous path of thy own right-lined rectitude, thou lookest benignly down on an erring wretch, of whom the zig-zag wanderings defy all the powers of calculation, from the simple copulation of units, up to the hidden mysteries of fluxions!

And Bertha Brachiosaur is munching away in Ostrom Meadow, benignly supervising the whole scene.

As a result, the vast majority of Coloradans view the decidedly less-than-conservative city of Boulder either as an amusing curiosity or, less benignly, as an irritating oddity.

Hu Shih smiled benignly toward Hrrula, who gave no suggestion of hostility as he grinned down at Todd beside him.

And from revolving his thumbs benignly towards himself he began to revolve them urbanely from himself.

Somehow the two of them were walking together, and Sandur was smiling benignly at them as he kept the Mediators occupied.

The old Judean Bible used by some of the old religious sects on Earth contained a great many commonsensible suggestions for an agricultural society, and some moral and ethical traditions which are worthy of retention she held up a hand, smiling benignly but without any hint of fanatic adherence!

Control looked on benignly, an inter-services committee was formed (known as the Alleline Committee), a team of boffins from Nuts and Bolts made a survey of the foundations of the Soviet Embassy in Athens, where Alleline counted on the unstinted support of the latest military régime which, like its predecessors, he greatly admired.

Benignly, he looks down on the nocturnal frolics of animals and children, of the knife and the spoon.