At the end, amid ominous bass-drum thuds, a voice haltingly intones the phrase "Mild, light / See him smile".
While I was going through chemotherapy, the phrase "mild cognitive impairment" did not pertain to the stupefaction I experienced at forgetting a close friend's name.
Between these letters, Simmons engages in threatening tomfoolery with the audience – pressing a packet of pasta sauce against the face of a front-row stooge, while singing the phrase "mild cheese and broccoli" again and again.
He was chubby and pink, and reminded me of the phrase "tender and mild" in "Silent Night," one of the songs my mother and I sang together at the piano.
A major poet, a master, the most important writer since X — none of that seems right for a poet so enamored of the minor: his love for "other traditions" (as he titled his Charles Norton lectures), his interest in "mild effects" (to quote a phrase from "The Skaters"), his method of "wandering away" (the formulation appears in several books; "wandering" is Ashbery's version of Whitman's "loafing").
"Great national rejuvenation" replaced a phrase that sounds milder in Chinese, "zhenxing zhonghua," or "national revival," the Topics Today post said.
Later that evening, while Seb slept beside her, she read what the doctor had written in Seb's notes and typed the phrases into Google: "mild hypotonia" and "flat features".
He is, in his own phrase, a modest realist, a gentle, ingenious debater, brilliant at taking over the fragments of good sense in the excesses of his opponents and finding mild, true uses for their slogans, thereby voiding their rhetoric.
While many simply offered their mild amusement at hearing the Queen use the phrase, others went so far as making videos mixing the footage with dance music and flashing lights.
While this speech has not gotten a whole lot of attention so far, one phrase of it is garnering some mild interest: the idea that America is experiencing a "Sputnik moment".
