Sentence examples for mild acts of 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.
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.
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.
However, we are all guilty of mild and extreme acts of over-protectiveness and over-parenting that can be very damaging to a developing child.
His mother, Marie Minichiello, a social worker, told me that although she punished him for his acts of mild disobedience, she always supported him.
The worst aspect of the violence here is not so much its methodical nastiness, or even its taint of exhibitionism ("Gaze upon this, if you dare," von Trier seems to say), as the way in which it debases the milder but more serious acts of aggression in the earlier scenes.
