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You chose great examples of the benign and malign forms of this phenomenon, in citing FDR and ER's tag-team response to the Bonus Marchers and ER's later cover for FDR's neglect of the refugees.
sweetly, unfashionably benign ...
The universe exists to humiliate Brooks' protagonists, to remind them of the precariousness of everything that they'd smugly assumed was fixed--the steadiness of a job, the permanence of a relationship, the support of a mother, the benign regard of the universe.
Gore has alleged in the past that he was protected in a different way at an earlier stage, but not out of a benign motive.
Although hanging fire is defined as being the opposite of point-blank , the two are unrelated in the field of firearms: a hang-fire is a `delay in the ignition of the powder charge in a firearm'--not a benign delay but a serious, potentially deadly situation.