"He cannot afford to be more mild than this, he will lose," says an old acquaintance.
The DVD of Kosminsky's Wuthering Heights timidly warns that the film "contains mild horror" – but could anything be less mild than the crazed, haunted novel?
Paella, a riot of shrimp, clams, mussels, scallops, calamari, itty-bitty chorizo pieces and saffron rice, was perfectly cooked but more mild than piquant.
No one has a greater stake in keeping the recession mild than Doug J. Marchand, executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority, which operates the port here, a mile upriver from the Atlantic Ocean.
Parents in the newer survey who reported that their children had received a diagnosis between 2008 and 2012 were far more likely to report that the diagnosis had been characterized as "mild" than parents who received the diagnosis earlier.
Some of the television executives who met with Mr. Fox last week said that they were struck by the fact that his tics and tremors were more mild than they anticipated.
