"We've come through a half-century of history where recessions have been sort of mild," notes Richard Sylla, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.
Al Bernstein, the main Showtime announcer, struck a note of mild skepticism as he rewatched the sequence.
Another contributor, Elvis Presley, sits in with "Heartbreak Hotel" -- the only inclusion from the 1950's, and a mismatch that closes the set on a note of mild embarrassment.
The audience, peppered with friends of Jazz at Lincoln Center, applauded this declaration with enthusiasm and perhaps a note of mild astonishment.
Although the room starts to feel like a pressure cooker at times, and the staff occasionally betrays a note of mild desperation (there's barely anywhere for them to stand), for the most part, they keep it together, because, as one lovely waitress said, "There's no crying in baseball".
The flavor is pretty mild, ranging from notes of fennel to almond.
The first would be uttered in tones of mild awe, the second with a note of scepticism.
It would have been wise to take more note of Wayne Rooney's mild words last week about the boredom of a day composed of training, rest after lunch and an evening to be filled with difficulty.
Usually any note of embarrassment, any mild tang of shame, is the result of painful memorial retrieval a self-inflicted attack on the self that sees you scratching away at emotional scabs which had healed into a surface invisibility.
The time is upon us to take note of yet another milder winter and rejoice in the festivities of the holiday season.
