Sentence examples for merely mild from inspiring English sources

Later, he riffs on our culture of sentimentality, nailing its fraudulence while professing merely mild personal distaste.

But not even the appearance of Imelda Marcos and her infamous footwear collection ("I did it for tourism") can spice up what is merely mild, forgettable fun.

But almost exclusively because she is a woman, she has been on the receiving end of what she considers, incredibly, merely mild abuse.

The Jamaat ud-Dawa volunteers I met offered only mild criticism of Musharraf and the Army, merely wondering why it had been so slow to organize.

(It was my daughters, with merely a mild contretemps).

Or are they merely in mild agreement with Mr Turner that yes, it was rock'n'roll that saved us all.

His belated follow-up Almost Christmas (Arrow, 15) is merely a mild distraction, starring the reliably woebegone Paul Giamatti as an ex-con chasing a not-so-quick buck by selling fir trees at peak yuletide.

They seem torn over whether a restriction on ammunition erodes the rights of law-abiding gun owners, as its opponents insist, or is merely a mild annoyance for those owners in the name of public safety.

It's quite menacing, I think, the counterpoint in that chant, with the understated use of the word "like" confirming that half the fun is in embracing a powerfully destructive and hateful identity in a casual way, as if it's merely a mild preference.

I became slightly less outspoken, a little more conventional and by the mid-nineties, when Ben and Jerry's announced it was retiring White Russian to its flavor graveyard, what would have been devastating news a decade earlier was merely a mild disappointment.

During the war, David Astor didn't merely suffer "a mild attack of dysentery" as suggested in the review.