Mild acquaintances can become brothers, catch-ups can become orgies, and simple clothes lines can whirl you into states of irresponsible joy.
"We expect that firing a close family member" amounts to unlawful retaliation, Justice Scalia wrote, while "inflicting a milder reprisal on a mere acquaintance will almost never do so, but beyond that we are reluctant to generalize".
Friends and acquaintances invariably describe him as "mild mannered" or "soft spoken", even "nervous", which is all true.
"He cannot afford to be more mild than this, he will lose," says an old acquaintance.
Conversely, a significantly greater proportion of patients with severe disease had disclosed to at least some acquaintances (60%) compared with patients with moderate (45%), mild (45%), and normal disease (40%) (χ2 (3, 714) = 12.70, p <.01; effect size Cohen's d = 0.27).
Asked if he has hard-core social-conservative acquaintances, he answers simply: "No .GroupthinkBecause Americans are so mobile, even a mild preference for living with like-minded neighbours leads over time to severe segregation.
After a mild freakout, Samuel L. Jackson's character, Jules Winnfield, steers the blood-soaked Chevy Nova towards the nearby home of Jimmi, an acquaintance played by Quentin Tarantino.
"Delete them," the acquaintance responded.
One Facebook acquaintance suggested "cinesthesia".
Pleased to make my acquaintance".
