Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal

We waited for him to speak, like a congregation expecting the minister’s benediction.

He does just that, becoming a wealthy benefactor of the impoverished, a generous and kind man beyond compare.

The best way you can take advantage of the beneficence of the mentor is to be prepared and follow up on their suggestions.

No thoughtful man can fail to appreciate its beneficent effect upon our institutions and people.

Education at any stage of life is beneficial for brain health, from an online course to classes at your local community center or college.

One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

He sometimes wondered if the country had lost its moral center, its sense of benevolence.

She smiles down upon them, always the same benevolent smile, and is described as radiant.

There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore’s face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles.

People like to predict the future, often a dismal future, but the future is not written.

He had been maladroit, he thought, had lost his presence of mind.

The general advice trends toward aiming for a healthy weight, eating nutritious food and getting exercise to prevent health maladies.

He fell ill with malaria and nothing the healer concocted saved him.

He dismissed them as “a malcontent group that is very vocal.”

But the emphasis can’t be only on prosecuting those malefactors, or protecting the whistleblowers who reveal their identities.

His Willy Wonka was gentle and generous but also vaguely malevolent—though only if you were a child bent on misbehaving.

The government would be accused of negligence, incompetence, even malfeasance in its handling of the case.

It still surprises me to hear such malice in his voice.

It was not clear whether the lesion was benign or malignant.

Malodorous trash piled up on the sidewalks of Beirut in August after the government closed a main landfill, suspending garbage collection.