The Weber test consists of placing the tuning fork on the forehead; the sound is better perceived either in the ear without nerve deafness or, paradoxically, in the ear affected by mild middle-ear deafness.
It tells the story of four mild, middle-class men from suburban Atlanta who embark on a canoe trip, snaking down a remote Georgia river that will soon disappear beneath a dam.
I would love to say there are no similarities between myself and the mild mannered, middle aged, middle class Mr Braithwaite but then I might possibly be in denial!
The idea is not entirely far-fetched for a composer who incorporated mild Middle Eastern touches in his opera "The Abduction From the Seraglio".
Goya's fascination with life's extremes of torment and emergency and broken-down order suits our modern sense that these extremes, and not the mild quotidian middle ground of human experience, hold the real truth.
According to the questionnaire for diagnoses of depression CES-D instituted before testing, 51% of women did not report any signs of depression, 27% reported very mild, 14% middle and 8% severe signs of depression.
"If you call us a boutique hotel chain, I'm going to scream," said Michael Pomeranc, 50, the otherwise mild-mannered middle child of the Pomeranc family.
Even a widely talked-up show of support for the world's most unembattled embattled manager ended up treading the mildest of middle grounds: the home fans sang "one Arsène Wenger", but politely, in the closing minutes, and without any real sense of answering defiance.
Yes, even me, mild-mannered, middle-class, mother of two.
After learning what he had done, I actually had trouble speaking to the inmate, a mild-mannered, middle-aged former accountant.
