Sentence examples for a mild office from inspiring English sources

With uncharacteristic modesty, he said: 'I squeezed out what little talent I possessed.' I once asked him jokingly in the course of a mild office altercation: 'Are you so big-headed because you won an Olympic gold medal, or did you win a gold medal because you were so big-headed?' Looking chastened, a rare occurrence, he chewed on his filthy pipe and growled: 'Good question.

After Hours (1985) was a minor but amusing diversion, with Griffin Dunne as a mild-mannered office worker who finds himself imperiled by a colourful variety of lunatics on one long, strange night.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, left, Democrat of Massachusetts, who is being treated for a malignant brain tumor, was taken to a hospital near his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., after suffering a "mild seizure," his office said.

Pathos, madness, emotional strain, and naked need shape and pierce his stories about race, such as the early "Big Black: A Mississippi Idyll" and his still shocking tale of sadomasochism, "Desire and the Black Masseur," in which a mild-mannered white office worker encourages his black masseur to devour him — literally.

It also points up a mild generation gap in the office.

Gerrard is Mark Taylor's countertype -- a mild, reasonable, bookish soul whose office features a chess set, not a pile of canisters full of dirt from dead thinkers.

Jim Edgar was a mild-mannered, moderate office-bearer who became popular as governor, earning broad public support in Illinois during his eight years in office.

Senator Robert C. Byrd was taken to a hospital Monday evening and will be treated there for a mild infection for several more days, his office said.

So many times we had visited the office, in a panic, over a mild illness, one of my children had been experiencing.

The talk of a "barbecue summer" and a "mild winter", it is insinuated, lay bare the Met Office's shortcomings.

Some employees in offices at the plant reported sensing a mild shaking, Mr. Nappi said.