Benign in sentence

295 examples of Benign in a sentence

If the inflationary consequences of using SDRs in this way are benign, it could be used to justify the additional, extra issuance of SDRs, say, every five years, again, with the commitment that developed-market countries would direct their share of the new reserves to the Green Climate Fund.

But if the host needs to be mobile in order to transmit the pathogen, then it's the benign ones that tend to be the winners.

It sounds like a benign and useful feature, except when it isn't.

Teens and their parents need to know that while e-cigarettes may contain less toxins than cigarettes, they're certainly not benign.

Bio- and cybertechnologies are environmentally benign in that they offer marvelous prospects, while, nonetheless, reducing pressure on energy and resources.

First, any scientific discovery has benign consequences as well as dangerous ones.

Now, here's a benign example.

In the new industrial revolution extractive must be replaced by renewable; linear by cyclical; fossil fuel energy by renewable energy, sunlight; wasteful by waste-free; and abusive by benign; and labor productivity by resource productivity.

Two stunt guys doing what I consider to be a rather benign stunt.

Samuel Pisar, an Auschwitz survivor, said, and I'll quote him, "The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man, when he loses his moral compass and his reason."

When we think of marine-protected areas for animals like dolphins, this means that we have to be quite conscious about activities that we thought were benign.

Nevertheless, it's a benign movie with its heart in the right place, there are some fine performances, and you just get the feeling that everyone involved felt deflated at the final 'cut!' That good feeling permeates the film.

As a huge fan of horror, I had given up on the vampire sub-genre due to the fact that in most vampire flicks the vampire has become feminine and non-threatening, benign and basically weak.

According to the book THE MAKING OF STAR TREK, in Roddenberry's writer's guide to his story writers, he states that any alien creature, no matter how hideously ugly, impossible to believe, benign or malicious, MUST hold some semblance of humanity that the TV viewing public can empathize with and/or relate to.

The two of them also play Japanese soldiers, and the way they do it makes Jerry Lewis' infamous playing of Japanese characters as thick-lensed, buck-toothed, gibbering mental defectives look benign by comparison.

Tim Robbins is oddly benign here, cast as a garage mechanic in 1950s New Jersey who falls in love with a perky blonde who turns out to be Albert Einstein's niece!

It's a noble attempt, however, to salvage the unused bits from the first movie, including an entire plot about some pretty benign would-be domestic terrorists called "The Alarm Clock."

The ogre scene in the beginning was a little scary for her, and she was a little nervous when we saw him again at the end, but it was mostly benign.

We are far more likely to encounter the benign evil of Jackson Rippner than Freddy Kruger, and Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins) does an excellent job of presenting a sociable, friendly, even charismatic killer.

The host, John Newland, had a very benign style all his own.

What I found most intriguing and refreshing about this film was the seemingly benign approach it creates allowing the terror to build gradually.

.....Plus, later on, this creaky device is just dropped from the movie altogether!..... Something else now: Is Arriaga making a political statement by showing virtually all of the white Americans as defectives in one way or another while all the Latino's are benign, generous and overall, good guys?

Even as a sort of benign curiosity, it fails to work for me.

SEX MONSTER (2 outta 5 stars) No, this is not a porno... except for some four letters words and some swimming pool nudity this is as benign as a typical TV sitcom.

BARKER tried to mix the HAMMER blend of actual, legitimate mysteries and crime plots along with slapstick and comedy, but the problems lie in the fact that the lousy writing was funny, the plots were stale and the main character was bland and benign without a decent comic attitude.

The supporting cast includes Verna Bloom as Duvall's long suffering girlfriend and Eddie Egan as his crusty yet benign superior.

Here, by 1943, MGM had been producing the series for 5 years and allowed it to descend into what might be called benign disinterest only to be summarily shelved when studio bean counters pointed out the last several productions had actually lost money in their initial release.

Lou Gossett Jr. is a less than patient fellow cop and Anthony Zerbe is Matthau's crusty yet benign superior.

But what bothered me incredibly about "Amu The Film" was that the script was so benign that the history was getting a fairly weak treatment.

If this were simply a sign of a new, tighter focus on viable long-term strategies, it might be regarded it as a benign development.

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