Sentence examples similar to mildly stricken from inspiring English sources

I remember Pressler, looking through its pages, as mildly struck and amused: "I see you use the semicolon".

The Container Store, where more than a dozen shoppers had lined up outside before the 7 p.m. opening, was a crush of students debating the merits of various styles of laundry bags or selecting storage boxes in a frenzy, and weary parents pushing carts or following their offspring with mildly stunned and stricken looks on their faces.

This is good news, and the chancellor will be entitled to strike a mildly celebratory tone.

I know several non-playing contemporaries who say that bridge is beginning to strike them as mildly attractive and age-appropriate, partly for that reason.

You are mildly annoyed; it thinks it has struck a blow for freedom.

We are staying on Adolf street, which strikes all of us as mildly offensive.

Cummings wrote back, "The question Is Joe Gould Crazy strikes me as, putting it very mildly, irrelevant.

Leafing through my copy of the biography, I am struck anew by its quality of mildly exasperated tenderness toward its subject.

This struck me as very peculiar, to put it mildly.

That doesn't strike me as particularly independent, to put it mildly.

But he always struck me as someone who was not just socially awkward, but mildly belligerent about his awkwardness, too.