But Mr. Cosby sharpened his mild stories with timing and nuance and the credible voices of characters from childhood to senility.
But then, also, it is entirely necessary that McCloud plays the dickhead here: he is the doubter, pushing mild stories about homebuilding forwards: he needs to add narrative to something that is so often just two people stood alone in an empty field, imagining things.
"We begin with milder stories, and then the audience is warned, and they stay at their own peril".
At the same time, there are different dimensions to my writing, with books such as "Brothers" and "To Live" that address the cruelty and violence of the Cultural Revolution, as well as the milder stories in "Boy in the Twilight".
That's the reason why so many texts that we now think of as blameless, mild-mannered stories suitable for family consumption – Jane Eyre, or Madame Bovary – were received with horror by some contemporaries as disgusting, wicked, the sort of filth that you would never give your daughters.
Unfortunately, this is the real world; for every mild success story, there are greater extremes and greater tragedies.
Lewis plays a comic-book-crazed writer of unpublishably mild children's stories who erupts in his sleep with lurid tales, which his roommate (Martin), a penniless artist, transcribes and sells to a pulp publisher who is struggling to compete with television's violent fare.
Though at first blush Hunter's writing has all the elements of a story that's been smoothed and workshopped to the point of lacking originality -- quirkily named characters, third person narration enlivened by mild colloquialisms -- the story is expertly paced and contains chapters that lend it layers of complexity.
If the oil industry continues to get the best of us, our shortsighted greed will leave nothing but stories of mild winters for our grandchildren.
Less contentious are her recent dating and parenting stories – the mildest part of the show, but often droll.
The series my sons favored were milder, more immersive, with stories that reflected child-size dramas: tantrums, sharing, and fantasies of adventure in the larger world.
