Sentences with word «benignity»

Then the bishop of Beauvais who was the ecclesiastical judge exhorted her with benignity to care for her soul and to remember all her transgressions so as to rouse herself to contrition.

The play does allow a certain benignity, color, and agility to the man, if only to give Drummond a worthy adversary, but in many ways it belittles him.

«Saint Anthony, who presides over fishermen and cooks alike, usually is represented in the Brazilian kitchen by a small painted wooden statue that looks down from his little shelf with especial benignity when roballo (a sea pike) or pompano is ceremoniously laid out on the board and the dressing of it begun, while the tail is being wrapped in a bit of oiled paper to keep it intact and the head perhaps is being tied with string to keep the jaws from sagging open in cooking.

As the film goes on, Caleb's growing personal attachment to an illusory woman seemingly fashioned out of his dreams is pitched as an exposé of the possessiveness and objectification behind nice - guy benignity — a neat trick, though one with very little payoff.

She gazed, with vague benignity, at trees, fields, hedgerows, livestock.

Owen continues: «The key to New York's relative environmental benignity is its extreme compactness.

Another — predictably still attending Mass — cited monastic preservation of the classical heritage and papal restraint of feudal warfare, which proved its benignity.

It is also the freedom to acknowledge the world's terror and alienation no less than its benignity.

A visit to the website of «The Stockholm Initiative» shows that not only does the group as a whole lack the technical qualifications to speak on any climate change issue, but that their mission is to debunk AGW and push the benignity of fossil fuels.