All 10 Uses of
benevolent
in
The Fountainhead
- His heavy face bore the benevolent, paternal smile that had always been his passkey and his trademark.†
Chpt 1.12
- He stood smiling benevolently in silence.
Chpt 2.3 *benevolently = kindly
- He remembered the magnificent voice he had heard in the lobby of the strike meeting, and he imagined a giant of a man, with a rich mane of hair, perhaps just turning gray, with bold, broad features of an ineffable benevolence, something vaguely like the countenance of God the Father.†
Chpt 2.3
- He was accustomed to hostility; this kind of benevolence was more offensive than hostility.†
Chpt 2.6
- He walked straight to her table, determined to act like an old friend who remembered nothing but her incredible benevolence.†
Chpt 2.8
- But if a man worked well, he needed nothing else to win his employer's benevolence: it was granted, not as a gift, but as a debt.†
Chpt 2.10
- Holcombe muttered a few benevolent generalities and escaped.†
Chpt 3.3
- They all seemed remote and pure, far above him in the safety of their knowledge, but their faces had hints of smiling warmth, a benevolent invitation extended downward.†
Chpt 3.6
- Toohey's eyes looked straight at him, dark, gentle, benevolent.†
Chpt 4.7
- And for that instant, each man was freeāfree enough to feel benevolence for every other man in the room.†
Chpt 4.18
Definition:
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(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable