Sentence examples for mildly contentious from inspiring English sources

But the project has been mildly contentious.

Now, she cannot express a mildly contentious view in a literary journal without waking to find an outraged press pack camped on her front lawn.

Take her famous, still mildly contentious photographs of the mentally disabled, shot at anonymous New Jersey institutions from 1969 to 1971.

Unfortunately – like the rest of the film – what follows is largely listless, save for a mildly contentious climax that comes out of nowhere.

The attacks and subsequent American airstrikes against Afghanistan have turned the Shanghai assemblage from a relatively toothless good-will exercise into a mildly contentious effort by the United States to strengthen its antiterrorism coalition in Asia.

Naming a Netflix film the year's best is only mildly contentious relative to the critical debate that ensued when Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series (Universal, 15) came in at No 2 on Sight & Sound's films of the year list (and No 1 on Cahiers du cinéma's).

This could potentially be a pretty powerful tool — while users might normally pass over an article that they're only mildly interested in, an insightful or contentious comment could catch their eye and lead them to leave a comment of their own.

Teachers hesitated when they pronounced my last name and giggled mildly (as anything more would be contentious bullying) when the reactions of students went from chuckles to a flurry of new jokes.

THE question of what exactly inspires ultra-militant Muslims to hate America has been a contentious one, to put it mildly, ever since George Bush gave his own sonorous explanation, in an address to Congress after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

But targeted advertising requires sophisticated techniques to track users and their browsing habits - a highly-contentious issue, to put it mildly.

The mood was contentious and combative, to put it mildly.