But I was small, female, and looked fairly benign, unarmed.

"If the consumer price numbers look pretty benign, then the market might take comfort from that," he added.

Still, it all looked too benign to be really scary.

In a halo of pink smoke he looked quite benign.

But if you are on the other end of an Ofsted visit, things do not look quite so benign.

Somehow in the warm lantentlight even he looked more benign.

Only it seemed probable that Elijah may have looked more benign.

Before Sept. 11, these works would have looked quite benign.

At around 1 percent a year, these costs look positively benign.

The school building, yellow in the evening light, looked benign.