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(Dumbledore's benevolent but strict theology, involving the operations of free will in a supernaturally determined world, is classically Miltonian--an odd note of Protestantism in this decidedly pagan cosmos.)
(A quarter century after high school trigonometry, about all I can remember of it is the benevolent Indian “Soh-Cah-Toa”: Sine = o pposite/ hy potenuse, C osine = a djacent/ hy potenuse, T angent= o pposite/ a djacent, relating the lengths of the right triangle's sides to the functions of its angles).
He was especially harsh with his former friend Ernest Dowden, who espoused a benevolent Irish cosmopolitanism in opposition to Yeats' literary nationalism.
The Maya viewed their gods not as benevolent guides but as changeable spirits in need of constant appeasement.
In the early decades of this century, when racist views were the norm, Phillips' picture of slavery as benevolent institution held sway.