STRIPPED of the corporate image-crafters and lawyers that surrounded him in his last days at Disney, and with the benefit of distance — three years, to be exact — Mr. Eisner appears mellowed, happier, different.
Though they appear mellow here, they were actually a fun and spirited group.
Most of the killings were in Cyrenaica, where resentment against Mr Qaddafi also stemmed from economic neglect, the attachment that some retain to the royal family he overthrew, and the fact that Cyrenaica has historically been independent of western Libya.Mellowing, but not changingIn recent years Mr Qaddafi has appeared to mellow.
Sir Colin's second marriage appeared to mellow him.
Over the past decade the party appears to have mellowed, eschewing xenophobia, academic commentators suggest.
Almost a decade and a half after she left office, neither the adulation nor the hatred appears to have mellowed.
Even Sudan, a country that has been reduced to near-pariah status by a heavy-handed Islamist government and an interminable civil war, appears to be mellowing.
Flex appears to have mellowed since then, and with me he talked about how the decline of the small-time drug business was hurting hip-hop by introducing a "persistent, annoying" element into the industry.
Arsenal released him to the Togo squad initially on the understanding that he would not feature in their qualifier, to be played tomorrow in Accra, Ghana, though that stance appears to have mellowed.
Retaining the title is the aim yet winning the Champions League is not a directive ordered down from Roman Abramovich, whose pure desperation to be crowed king of Europe appears to have mellowed recently.
