Both Uses of
benign
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- Hodge was a wide, benign man in white socks, with a face as orange as the bricks of his house and hands like rusty shovels.†
Chpt 1 *
- Turning suddenly, seeing that face—wide, white, benign, expressionless as a planet depopulated by fire and flood and war and plague—eyes like a bubonic rat's, the hat high, high on the forehead yet perfectly level, like a child's fedora placed, tres amusant, on the head of a fat, new corpse.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
kindly, mild, or harmless
(In medicine, a tumor that is not life-threatening, is called benign.)
(In medicine, a tumor that is not life-threatening, is called benign.)