A major minor, if you will.
Most Americans consider thunderstorms minor, if dramatic, inconveniences.
"It's minor, if it matters at all," he said.
His father was a minor, if kindly, servant of Tammany Hall.
In fact, this proves only a minor, if rewarding, part of its attraction.
A minor, if embarrassing, market hiccup was prevented from metastasizing into something worse.
It took 18 months to reach agreement on the relatively minor, if symbolic, step of releasing Miss Suu Kyi.
Chopin's Scherzo in C sharp minor, if admirable for the performer's reckless courage, was made pretty much into a mess by Mr. Fleisher himself.
It is probably this, more than the relatively minor, if very painful for some, cuts to Pip that explains Duncan Smith's resignation.
It was then that he crossed the line from minor, if successful, sportsman in a fringe sport, to near-national treasure status.
Resuscitating minor (if best-forgotten) works by leading composers such as Prokofiev (or his coeval Shostakovich) tainted by their political climate is one thing.
