"Franzen once in a while says something that people might mildly disagree with," the novelist Gary Shteyngart said, referring to Jonathan Franzen.
[See related article, Page 4.] In his best-known work, "The Overwhelming," Mr. Rogers sent members of an obtuse American family into civil-war-torn Rwanda, where they spent what might mildly be described as a season in hell.
Ho-hum, nothing big, probably just some investors worried they might mildly disappoint once again this quarter.
It might then prove mildly reassuring for anxious parents to know that students in the 19th century displayed an identical impulse to impress new friends by drinking copiously.
(It might have been mildly interesting to know what the Irish think of the anti-British militia members who populate the Patriots' iconography).
It might have been mildly amusing when he tweeted that the scandal was helping him catch up with Michele Bachmann, in terms of followers, and appended "#scrappychasingcrazy," but for him to refer to that as "the famous hashtag," in a press conference a couple of days later, just wasn't.
If I were considering my options, this might be mildly useful — it might be, as happiness experts like Daniel Gilbert and Gretchen Rubin say, that we do not always know what will make us happy, which makes it more useful to know what has affected the happiness of others.
If you have digestive problems, it might be a good idea not to eat anything even mildly spicy.
Others were mildly concerned at the level of take-up and how easy it might be to pass.
"Calling it glamping is putting it mildly.
