** Canetti's fierce spell was incongruously broken by the advent of mild, innocent, stammering, hyper-English John Bayley.
Canetti's fierce spell was incongruously broken by the advent of mild, innocent, stammering, hyper-English John Bayley.
L'Oréal's innovation was to carve out a niche for itself in between the sunny blondes — the "simple, mild, and innocent" blondes — and the smart, bold, brassy blondes, who, in McCracken's words,"do not mediate their feelings or modulate their voices".
This may have been responsible for his choice of a beautiful but terrifying lion the size of a small elephant as his allegorical figure of Jesus, rather than something nearer to the traditional innocent, meek and mild Lamb of God.
(Pretending to be something milder and more innocent than you really are? That's Mertensian mimicry).
When I look at pictures of myself as a young girl, young teen and young woman, there's always a moment of mild surprise at the naked innocent hope that I see.
In An Alphabet For Gourmets, M. F. K. Fisher calls it "a warm, mild, soothing thing, full of innocent strength" in a recipe titled, appropriately, Milk Toast (for the Ill, Weak, Old, Very Young, or Weary).
The lawyer argued that Corona was more mild-mannered than his brother, and innocent. .
Molly: Maine's harsh winters bring below-zero weather to kill pests while Idaho's milder winters allow these varmints to terrorize innocent crops for another season.
A seemingly innocent tangle of greens is neither gentle nor mild.
For all its "mild comic horror and violence, frightening sequences and innuendo", this is a film with an innocent heart: perfect fare for aspiring goths and their balding parents alike.
