Example Sentences

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One was a standard something-is-wrong-with-nature film that made monsters of benignities, the other a headlong black-comic attack on the nuclear threat.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are disturbing to look at, nightmarish, but most of them, oddly enough, are intended as lucky benignities.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

There is nothing like surface-mining to snatch the graces and beauties and benignities out of a paradise, and make an odious and repulsive spectacle of it.

From Following the Equator, Part 3 by Twain, Mark

The balsams shed upon the air their perfumes, so pervasive, so tonic, that the lungs breathed health and all the benignities of nature.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Many of the people shook hands with me at the door, and the bald old gentleman led me to his wife and daughter, whose benignities were almost parental.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred