benignantly
Example Sentences
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Plato would smile benignantly on your progress, from the particulars of something sketched in the real world to the transcendence of pure form.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2015
In Ms. Tushnet’s time, as in mine — I was four years ahead of her at Yale — the Party of the Right had a benignantly cultish quality.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2010
He looked up and, out of priestly habit, smiled benignantly at Milton, his white teeth appearing in the great bush of black beard.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Again he may say benignantly: "To—my faithful friend—Murray Hill—who made possible this volume"; or "the illumination of whose personality has lighted my way to truth."
From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday
My sisters had swooned at the feet of Jesus, who was smiling benignantly upon me.
From In Both Worlds by William Henry Holcombe
