Sentence examples for a harmless manner from inspiring English sources
The "Scottish" Symphony (No. 3 in the unchronological standard sequence), he said, is often played in a "harmless" manner, which "is a great mistake, as it's a very serious and dramatic piece".
Players who flirt with it are doing so to save their own skin, to escape a snooker in the most harmless manner possible.
A story is told that the 16th-century pope Adrian VI was highly offended at satirical verses written against him and affixed to Pasquino's statue (a famous repository for lampoons in Rome), but he became a willing target once he realized that his enemies vented otherwise dangerous hostility in this relatively harmless manner.
If you are certain that the snake you are attempting to catch is a harmless garter snake, then you can scoop it up in almost any manner that you like (or are able to).
A harmless, bumbling toff.
A harmless commentating joke.
Is it a harmless frivolity?
A harmless eccentricity, it might be thought.
