How To Use mild-mannered In A Sentence
- Presently, Larry is working as a mild-mannered library clerk at a community college in Kingston, Ontario.
- A mild-mannered, Shakespeare-quoting, philosophic serial euthanasiast -- sort of a cute old Kevorkian. Comic Book Movie
- The ballet tells the rags-to-riches tale of a mild-mannered bootmaker named Will Mossop.
- These are startling things to hear from such a quiet, decent, mild-mannered man.
- He was a kind, mild-mannered man who did not like the trials of leadership or the political intrigues of court.
- Privately, they are not so sure if the country is ready for this mild-mannered man, big on principles and always ready to conciliate, one who believes that one day the meek will inherit the earth.
- If there's a human face on Rising China, it belongs not to some Politburo chief, not to an Internet tycoon, but to a quiet, mild-mannered teenage girl named Hou Yifan.
- Overlooked crime thriller starring Elliot Gould as a mild-mannered teller who gets into trouble when he secretly absconds with part of a fortune missed by a psychotic bank robber (Christopher Plummer). 2010 January : Scrubbles.net
- At first hearing, the almost pathological self-effacement of Tim (the mild-mannered bong-builder who goes head to head with lagered-up Terry the law-abider in the Streets 'Socratic dialogue The Irony of It All) seems about as far from the defiant self-assertion of the Who's "Hope I die before I get old" as you could possibly get. The Guardian World News
- A mild-mannered man is wrongly accused of a crime and sentenced to anger-management treatment.