Beneficent

Late during those October sessions with Lappin, she sang “I wish you well,” her beneficent greeting for two people who had hurt her badly.

In recent years, Communist China has mostly dropped its “,” its effort to persuade other Asian countries that it is an inoffensive and trustworthy—if not beneficent—great power.

Mr. Pourkay, who left Tehran in 1978 during the Iranian Revolution, was a beneficent figure in the Flatiron district, doling out samples of stews in tiny spoons, eager to share his cuisine with those merely in search of a New York slice.

Nor are we referring merely to the Fed’s beneficent impact on arcane speculations like the 2s/10s steepener trade.

Ralph Fiennes’s central turn as charming concierge M Gustave, all beneficent sex and abashed camp, remains the man’s finest hour.

This specific form of incompetence may be one of our president’s most beneficent qualities.

In that pure state, the power is benign, beneficent and benevolent.

He entered his club to play from five to seven, before going home to dinner, forgetting for those two hours whatever was distasteful in his life, as though the game were a beneficent drug for allaying the pangs of moral discontent.

It was used as a magical formula by the Gnostics of the sect of Basilides in invoking the aid of beneficent spirits against disease and misfortune.

One vagrant bishop blended Catholicism with theosophy and built his cathedral around a massive brass funnel through which God sent down beneficent rays to the faithful, who stood underneath the blessed metal conduit to receive them.

Pear and walnut trees were held to be the sacred abodes of beneficent spirits in pre-Islamic Chechen religion and, for this reason, it was forbidden to fell them.

Rada loa The Rada loa are generally the older, more beneficent loa.

The Grizmallt leader, Queen Elsinore den Tasia, sponsored a fleet of three ships (Beneficent Tasia, Mother Vima and Constant) to colonize new worlds, commanded by the explorer Kwilaan.

When actual, the king's personal virtue (de) spreads beneficent influence throughout the kingdom.