At one point Ellis tells me, apparently in earnest, that they want to be "mildly unique" ("Yeah, only mildly unique, just mildly," chorus his bandmates).
It's good to have someone who is mildly interested and mildly proud, and also slightly uninterested.
As directed by Tomàs Aragay and performed by these two, it mostly just was, in a mildly interesting, mildly tedious sort of way.
TOM ODELL This young singer-songwriter won the critics' choice award at this year's BRIT Awards, likely for his stubborn sincerity and his mildly tortured, mildly quavering voice.
As usual the offerings are mildly funny, mildly annoying and only barely distinguishable from actual real-life products offered for sale.
Waiting for a drink, you are more likely to encounter a mildly annoying (or mildly ego-boosting, depending on your mood) flirt than serious harassment.
There I found this definition for "rotflmao": "A chat-room abbreviation used mainly by imbeciles, usually in response to something mildly, often very mildly, amusing.
Mr Schlink manages to make engaging an uncommitted, indecisive protagonist, self-described as "a man in his mid-forties, an editor, mildly successful, mildly accomplished, boring car, tidy flat".
But all those mildly (emphasis on the "mildly") witty updates that get retweeted 5,000 times by sheeple are doing nothing measurably good for the brand, either.
As in: "So, Marianna, where did you come up with the idea for your movie, Good Dick?" Palka confesses that it's a lot of fun to put mildly uptight people through mildly uncomfortable situations like that.
In a letter to a friend, he described a holiday, meant to be restorative, as "benefit to carcass nil, to put it mildly"."To put it mildly" is typical Beckett.
