Word: mildly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Accurate and timely . . . Last year I visited ten or a dozen of these refugee camps. Your description is a mild understatement of the true conditions...
...protest had been mild, almost perfunctory. Since the incident had been real and not a piece of propaganda trumpery, the Reds seemed almost to regard it as only a nuisance. For reasons of their own-perhaps the weight of allied firepower in the battle zones-they seemed anxious to get on with the truce talks...
...more convenient an empirical attitude: "We'll see when we have to tackle the problem and get all the facts"-which also assumes that those problems will be better tackled by practical Tories than by Socialist theorists. Partly it is due to what Lord Woolton-"Uncle Fred," the mild, silvery-haired and able chairman of the party's central office-calls "Deweyism." Overconfidence, that is, which in this case takes the form of assuming that the Tories can ride to office on Labor's bad record...
...Deceptively mild: vague pains and nausea, far less severe than the symptoms of peptic ulcer...
...Fourposter" is a mild comedy which covers a period of 35 years without leaving the bedroom of the two actors, a man and his wife. From this brief description one might assume two things: it is a dull and dirty play. I am pleased to report that it is neither...