Whatever the reasons, "Monsters University," the prequel to the mild-mannered "Monsters, Inc.," is mostly memorable for being fine but forgettable.
They were "mild and torpid monsters," according to Darwin.
Plaxo, the Sequoia-backed start that transformed itself from a hated spam monster into a mild mannered and interesting business social network, has started a sale process according to a source.
"Monsters" takes some mild shots at the jaded little members of its target audience, but it doesn't really want to upset them or their parents.
At moments "City of Ember," directed by the British filmmaker Gil Kenan ("Monster House"), suggests a mild satire of end-of-days ideology, especially when Mary Kay Place appears as a prating, singsongy proselytizer for the status quo.
Claudio Abbado, who succeeded Karajan in 1989, and is now entering his final season with the orchestra, may seem a little mild in comparison with those sacred monsters.
A bite from a mutant rabbit turns a mild-mannered scientist into a vengeful monster.
But behind the walls of the estate lurks a dark ugliness: Paul de Marseul (Niels Arestrup), the passionate, brilliant winemaker with the heart of a monster who treats his mild-mannered grown son Martin Lorànt Deutschh) like a dog.
Throughout that time we've also been battling to master what originally turned him from a mild mannered scientist into a super-powered monster: gamma radiation.
When angered, the usually mild-mannered man would turn into a monster of immense strength.
Cotton Mather, the powerful Puritan minister, advocated using pus from a smallpox scab to infect another person, producing a mild case and long-term immunity to the "speckled monster".
