Tom Rosenthal is the perfect choice to play crap-haired milquetoast Alfred the Great, thrust on to the throne after the deaths of all four of his elder brothers.
But at its best, the show has the ability to make viewers care about its characters (Carol has developed from milquetoast into a modern-day equivalent of the Ellen Ripley of the "Alien" films), to deliver genuine shocks and to raise some decent moral dilemmas.
The attorney-general is a skilled prosecutor with a milquetoast public profile who has run a somewhat boring campaign.
DEPENDING on your perspective, it was either a pointless bit of argy-bargy outside a milquetoast legislative council or a soul-stirring "siege of Legco".
Neither deserved it, suggests Mr Blom.Voltaire, he insists, was a milquetoast careerist, too concerned with his own reputation and his comfortable life to say anything truly unsettling.
After a blog called him "milquetoast establishment" for not endorsing a conservative candidate in New York over a moderate Republican, Mr Pawlenty hastily endorsed the conservative.
Robinson delivered another extraordinary performance as the appropriately named Chris Cross, a milquetoast department-store cashier whose shrewish wife (Rosalind Ivan) denies him every pleasure except the one he finds as a weekend painter.
Just as Breaking Bad depicted Walter's moral descent from milquetoast high school chemistry teacher to meth kingpin, so Better Call Saul will chart Jimmy's development from broke public defender to local TV celebrity and facilitator of organised crime.
Singer, songwriter, and so much more Singer-songwriter seems a little milquetoast for a multi-faceted artist such as Juana Molina, who writes everything, performs all the instruments – veering between the organic and the electronic – while recording and producing the thing as well.
All he needed was a trigger to explode his notion of who his barbecuing buddy really is: the mild-mannered, milquetoast chemistry teacher.
But even Jokowi's most milquetoast statements about reconciliation have met harsh resistance from conservative politicians and Islamist groups, who paint the P.K.I. as a symbol of the secular and progressive forces that they believe continue to undermine Indonesia.
