Sentence examples for quite mildly from inspiring English sources

On one hand, a sharp-tongued street preacher has been found guilty and punished, albeit quite mildly, under a piece of legislation which many regard as dangerously illiberal.

This week, by contrast, the Sadrist movement reacted quite mildly to the increasingly widespread arrests and also made a conciliatory gesture to Mr Maliki's government: several leading Sadrist politicians declared they would end a two-month boycott of parliament.

It was however associated with time since last use of opiates, but was rated quite mildly in the patient sample as a whole.

What followed started quite plainly and mildly but gathered pace into what must be one of the most eloquent and devastating denunciations in literary record: "Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news.

My reaction was a mixture of bafflement and dismay as I watched rows and rows of middle-aged Englishwomen — and quite a few mildly embarrassed-looking Englishmen — bouncing to their feet with glee to join in the megamix finale.

There are quite a few mildly poisonous rear-fanged snakes, brightly banded in red, black, and yellow (colours found in the coral snakes), that can make a predator suffer a sufficiently painful lesson that it will avoid contact with all similarly coloured snakes, including the fatally venomous coral snakes and the completely harmless milk snakes (Lampropeltis) and scarlet snake.

Which is — to put it mildly — quite the contradiction, given Facebook's long-standing public characterization of its business as just a distribution platform, never a media company.

And the results were, to put it mildly, quite sobering.

The idea that, say, Glenn Greenwald or Jane Hamsher or Bill McKibben or Rachel Maddow or me or anyone else slandered as the "Professional Left" is somehow responsible for public opinion trends among the national Democratic electorate - and the White House, the Democratic Party and others are not - is, to put it mildly, quite preposterous.

This will be achieved by asking the question: "During the past week, how much has your neck symptoms interfered with your normal (pre-injury) activities (including work outside the home, housework, sport, recreation and family activities)?" (Response options: Not at all, Mildly, Moderately, Quite a bit, or Extremely).

Mildly drizzly, but quite wonderful.