Sentence examples for mild affair from inspiring English sources

Before Sept. 11, anti-Americanism in Europe was a mild affair and a key part of the love-hate relationship between the French and the Americans.

Eliot's own version, in an unpublished memoir written near the end of his life, was: I think that all I wanted of Vivienne was a flirtation or mild affair: I was too shy and unpracticed to achieve either with anybody.

Admittedly last year did feature some scandal, but this was a mild affair that centred on the hurling of a ruined Baked Alaska and accusations that the ill-fated pudding had been sabotaged.

Played in the Eighteen Seventies as an outdoor version of racquets and court tennis, the game was a mild affair, as is proved by the fact that Wimbledon, where it was first welcomed as a sporting event, was the home of the All England Croquet Club, and the first triumph of the new tennis was to displace croquet in public favor.

What could have been the battle of the mustards became a mild affair, with Health Minister Jonathan Coleman pulling out of the race to be Prime Minister, leaving Bill English in charge.

BY AMERICAN standards, German culture wars are mild affairs.

This week, Le Monde, noting that Europeans see Americans as "arrogant, bellicose and deaf to all criticism", decried a new period of American "messianism .British anti-Americanism is a milder affair, though Mr Blair's claim that he exercises a restraining influence on Mr Bush is seen by many in his own party as a self-flattering illusion.

Instead of lighthearted and repetitive mild S&M, the "love affair" is now the twisted work of an utter psychopath.

Later, Foot happily indicated they shared more than Marx and Dickens in front of the gas fire of a small flat in Bloomsbury, but she angrily denied there had ever been an affair and Foot, professing mild surprise, loyally retracted.

In domestic affairs, Godoy supported a mild version of the enlightened reformism of his predecessors; like them, however, he failed to find a satisfactory place for Spain in the Europe of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (1800 15).

There is a mild disagreement over child-rearing, a hint of an affair (a scene that's oddly powerless in the Keen Company production), a moment of emergent women's liberation.