"The mayor is mellowing for a lot of reasons and it certainly appears that Levy has cemented a strong relationship with him," said Seymour Fliegel, president of the Center for Educational Innovation, a policy group.
Pappas is known for being mellow, but O'Brien said he had sensed a passivity that contrasted sharply with the focus he had seen in Clay.
HERE I am in this highly gay summer vacation village at the end of Cape Cod, trying to be mellow and uncritical for a month.
The Surf Lodge is known, somewhat infamously among locals, for its after-hours party crowd, but try it, too, in the late afternoon when it's mellow (save for the occasional child running amok) and you can still get a seat at the bar, an outdoor table to savor a meal by Sam Talbot of "Top Chef" fame and, perhaps most satisfying of all, a parking spot.
Would his yearning for honesty, and the consequent discomfort that honesty always brings, be mellowed by a resigned desire for comfort?
It was mellow, she said, except for the strange weather.
The tomato sauce has spice and flavor, the cheese is mellow and the extra ingredients ($3 for the first, $2 for each additional) are superb, including pungent anchovies, rich fennel sausage and freshly charred peppers.
That is "Mellow Johnny" as in the French for yellow jersey, "maillot jaune"; and "Juan Pelota" as in "one" and the Spanish for "ball".
Life is mellower now for Tyree.
