benignancy

Example Sentences

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The beauty of the morning, its stillness, its serenity, its odorous opulence, struck upon my senses with a kind of ironic benignancy, as if to say, "Why agonize over so small a thing?"

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

Under their benignancy no loss could befall, no fate miscarry—for in his last thought he felt his vision opened, for the moment, to perceive a fine tracery of fate.

From The Gentleman from Indiana by Tarkington, Booth

Although not great, the group of the Madonna and Child now over the central door of the Duomo has much charm and benignancy.

From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

Then her kindness to me, her looks, her smiles, her actions, are all intentional benignancy.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

The face which had not lost all its underlying benignancy even when it looked its coldest, had now become settled and hard.

From Dark Hollow by Green, Anna Katharine