The situations range from relatively mild to world changing.
Six months later, the recession is looking like one of the mildest since World War II.
Here is cosmopolitanism showing its sunniest face to the world: mild, pragmatic and touchingly convinced that it is doing its best by everyone.
Before Yellow Submarine, animation was a mild, goody-goody world of personality-free gloved mice and cartoon bears stealing picnic baskets.
The symptoms you are experiencing may simply be a mild case of World Cup fever.
The current unemployment rate, 6.1percentt — up more than a percentage point since April — is still relatively mild by post-World War II standards.
As he observes the idiocies of contemporary political life, the little defeats and victories of the dogsbody in John Prescott's ministerial team, the vanities of the trade (his own included) and the savage cynicism of the 24/7 media, Mullin's tone is mild, ironical, even world-weary.
Will generalised nagging by the new public health campaign be the thing that pushes me over the edge and into the world of mild to moderate exercise?
This seems nothing more than a mild prophylactic against the world joining Tom Watson on Snapchat, but it raises the same kinds of questions raised by Banks's chilling assertion that facts don't matter in political campaigns.
Already the crowds seem darker and more hurried and the slang grows stranger and stranger, and you do not understand what you love, yet here, rounding a corner in mild sunset, is the world again, wide-eyed as a child holding up a toy even you can fix.
