Sentence examples for mild acts from inspiring English sources

As always, precedence will be given to public stunts and mild acts of psychological self-harm.

Douthat also believes that Schaeffer's only real calls to action were mild acts of protest "chosen to evoke the peaceful civil disobedience of a Henry David Thoreau or a Martin Luther King Jr".

Speaking as a researcher in the field, the evidence linking violent media to even mild acts of aggression is inconsistent.

Stoudemire raced up the court in protest, a relatively mild act, but Delaney assessed the technical.

In a mild act of patriotism to mark events that were happening back home, I even handed out some Royal Wedding Shortbreads that I had brought from the UK.

Whether a mild act of embarrassing stupidity, such as putting one's foot in one's mouth with an untoward comment, or an act of career-ending idiocy, such as insulting the boss around the water cooler, bad decision making is a decidedly human attribute.

Whether a mild act of embarrassing idiocy, such as putting one's foot in one's mouth with an untoward comment, or an act of career-ending idiocy, such as bad mouthing the boss around the water cooler, idiots abounded, but the "blast area" was limited by the still unsophisticated means of communicating the idiocy to the world.

Scenes may show how the crime happened, for example someone stabbing someone else, mild sexual acts, and someone falling off a building and hitting the ground.

The penalties for getting caught, meanwhile, are generally too mild to act as much of a deterrent for poachers and traders.

2. The meek and mild may act anything but angry.

What I find disturbing about this trend of disciplinary commentary is the assumption that (a) the past was so dramatically different from today and (b) that the only way to manage a child is through physical force no matter how mild the act of punishment.