Wolf, by contrast, has written an extremely charming, mildly affecting debut novel about what one young man did one summer.
Reading arousing literature, whether it is a mildly explicit romance novel or "Fifty Shades of Grey," helps women to create fantasy-type thoughts that get the mind away from life's pressures.
A line of rats has been selectively bred on the basis of their locomotor behavior in a novel, mildly stressful environment, thus producing bred High Responder (bHR) and bred Low Responder (bLR) rats [ 10].
Mark Ginbings-Jones Set in a magic-tinged and heavily feudal Britain, this feature-length family adventure – based on Jasper Fforde's mildly subversive fantasy novels – harks back to Sky's handsome, star-stuffed Discworld adaptations.
The Rev. Andrew Greeley, though better known for his mildly pot-boiling novels full of ostentatiously heterosexual priests, has written extensively on the idea that it is the poetry of Catholicism -- its incense and music, rites and rituals -- that keeps Catholics tied for a lifetime to the church's symbols, if not to its doctrine.
Now mildly obsessed with Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho, and working with British indie type Mr Hudson, we're right to expect the unexpected here.
But for the most part we are back in the land of platitudes, as Scott and Ginevra hash out their regrets and recap the themes of this mildly engaging but unsurprising historical novel.
(The conceit of the governess as sinister interloper has a separate life of its own, from "The Turn of the Screw" to "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle".) Film interpretations of "Jane Eyre" are not nearly as daring: the only aspect of the novel that is mildly reworked in this version is the depiction of Bertha.
Exposure to a novel environment is mildly stressful and inherently arousing experience for mice [ 1- 3].
