It was an uncomfortable realization, to speak mildly.
This is the mode of social intercourse for visiting in our time: not to reassure, or to speak mildly, but to give voice to the outrageous, the never to be sorted out.
A huge one: the subject matter is as fresh today as it was then - the economic interests of the few still blight (I speak mildly) the lives of the many (new material neatly throws Donald Trump, for instance, into the original script).
Some Republicans spoke more mildly than Mr. McInnis about the Bermuda move.
For when you see that people whom you trusted, whom the government trusted after all and allocated huge funds for certain purposes, and they are used, mildly speaking, not for the purpose they were allocated for, well how can you treat such a person?
Commercially speaking, this mildly smutty comedy starring that bloke out of Mind Your Language gave Travis Bickle a hearty kicking.
As he signed books he was at ease, speaking with an earnest, mildly self-deprecating naivete.
If someone answers their phone in the reading room and walks out while speaking, they should be mildly electrocuted and not allowed back in for at least an hour after the first offence.
"I'm against this phenomenon which is imposed on us, against homosexuality, against non-traditional values to put it mildly, or speaking (plain) Russian: against pederasty and sodomy," she said.
My instinct is to trust this man, so mildly spoken and full of precisely articulated reason.
