How To Use Mild-mannered In A Sentence
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Presently, Larry is working as a mild-mannered library clerk at a community college in Kingston, Ontario.
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A mild-mannered, Shakespeare-quoting, philosophic serial euthanasiast -- sort of a cute old Kevorkian.
Comic Book Movie
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The ballet tells the rags-to-riches tale of a mild-mannered bootmaker named Will Mossop.
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These are startling things to hear from such a quiet, decent, mild-mannered man.
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He was a kind, mild-mannered man who did not like the trials of leadership or the political intrigues of court.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
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A mild-mannered man is wrongly accused of a crime and sentenced to anger-management treatment.
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But even though he was unceremoniously deposed from office last year, could the mild-mannered leader really be capable of such deeds?
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After returning, we've reverted back to our normal roles as mild-mannered students.
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The normally mild-mannered Bale was fuming.
The Sun
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Mild-mannered Stanley morphs into a confident, grinning hero.
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In formulating a rather mild-mannered anarchism, which promises no windows will be broken, the filmmakers, probably unwittingly, have tailored their work to the present conformist climate.
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He's a modest, mild-mannered man, without a trace of self-importance.
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The book is in essence the life story of a mild-mannered and cultured intellectual living under communism.
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Mild-mannered yet talkative dental supplies salesman, Andy goes to Detroit to give a speech at a dental convention.
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He is a virtuous, moral man with dignity and strength, not the mild-mannered pushover of decades past.
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And he is on BBC2 in the evenings now, asking his aggressive questions at mild-mannered members of the public.
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During the bus boycott, local civil rights leaders described her to the press as “mild-mannered and soft-spoken,” a “lady . . . who was too sweet to even say damn in anger,” and “a typical American housewife.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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He was a meek, mild-mannered fellow.
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At least I broke nothing and burned no one, although I did make mild-mannered old Jason downright peevish from all the messy sink water I splashed onto him.
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But this time it was not the defence secretary who spoke but the normally mild-mannered secretary of state.
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The wives inhabit a spectrum of tense to tanked; hubbies are mostly mild-mannered, but with a side order of oblivious.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mild-mannered politician is in favor of resolving Iran's nuclear row with the West through talks, an analyst said.
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Think of America not as the playground bully but as the well-muscled mild-mannered good kid who finally hauls off and whacks the loudmouth pipsqueak who won't stop bugging him.
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Off the field he is a quietly spoken, mild-mannered person; on the field, he's different.
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And who would have thought that mild-mannered Canadian fans of a famously gentleman's game could be so decidedly ungentlemanly in their reaction to curling on TV?
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They thwart dastardly supervillains and have saved the world countless times over but macho superheroes now face a determined new foe in the guise of a mild-mannered child psychologist.
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Besides, you can't have a fight when the other guy turns out to be a mild-mannered book nerd.
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Miss Waller was always smiling, almost simpering, and Miss Hooper was a mild-mannered pale-coloured personality.
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At first blush, this shoe evokes a mild-mannered street runner, but flip it over and you'll find an outsole that tears asphalt to shreds.
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A mild-mannered virgin businessman turned into a ‘deranged sex maniac’ under the influence of prescribed drugs, the High Court was told yesterday.
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He's normally mild-mannered, easy-going and a joy to work for.
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Along the way, the mild-mannered Green is introduced to the joys of groupie sex, narcotic-fuelled insobriety of dubious origin via a giant bifter known as a "Jeffrey", and various other staples of the rock star lifestyle.
Post-credits scene: Get Him to the Greek
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He's a modest, mild-mannered man, without a trace of self-importance.
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Mild-mannered, teetotal, often other-worldly, he was unswerving in his work for a party notable then for its lack of success.
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The next morning we woke up to find the mild-mannered videographer had been transformed into a devil-may-care, wild-haired punk!
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To construct his decoys , Paton inserted genes from two other bacteria types into the mild-mannered E. coli strain so that it would incorporate a chimeric molecule into its surface receptors.
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He may be absolutely mild-mannered (even meek and wimpish) in most respects, but no original thinker or doer gets anywhere in any field without aggression and stupendously high self-regard.
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One of the most mild-mannered people I know is driven into a frenzy by the fact that there is a caravan parked in a drive just up the road from her.
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He's very mild-mannered and studious, which is what makes the punchline work.
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He is too mild-mannered to be a manager; too nice to be nasty.
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Mild-mannered Stanley morphs into a confident, grinning hero.
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Mild-mannered, teetotal, often other-worldly, he was unswerving in his work for a party notable then for its lack of success.
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But my first exposure to Joyce was in a sleepy little black shoebox theatre, where a troupe of mild-mannered turtlenecked barnstormers read from Dubliners from a stage decorated with high stools, and where I, underexposed and underage and over my head, had too much to drink and fell asleep in mid-performance.
After the Race | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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Softness and that curiously mild-mannered touch dominated Lang Lang's playing.
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It was unscarred and perfectly ordinary, the face of a mild-mannered sixty-something-year-old man.
The Omega Theory
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Mild-mannered Donald may be, but as he so ably illustrated at last year's Ryder Cup in Wales – where he was the star man of the European team – he is something of matchplay specialist.
Cruel hand Luke Donald ends Matteo Manassero's dream run
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Along the way, the mild-mannered Green is introduced to the joys of groupie sex, narcotic-fuelled insobriety of dubious origin via a giant bifter known as a "Jeffrey", and various other staples of the rock star lifestyle.
Post-credits scene: Get Him to the Greek
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Superman may save the world on a regular basis, but he gets to come home and be mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent.
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I am usually mild-mannered but it was the competitiveness in me.
The Sun
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Two policemen are filming and photographing the apparently mild-mannered women holding the poster.
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My mom was mild-mannered compared to that, which was really saying something.
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Before the white man came, in fact, the kea was a mild-mannered fruit-eating or honey-sucking bird.
Science in Arcady
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Publicly, the Europeans have been following the script – "a good night's kip and then go out there and give it to them," said the normally mild-mannered Ross Fisher, sounding more like Paulie Gualtieri from the Sopranos than Clark Kent – but behind the scenes they have been in awe of the way Montgomerie has comported himself this week.
Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie uses dark arts to steel European team
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Two policemen are filming and photographing the apparently mild-mannered women holding the poster.
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O'Brien, on the other hand, is mild-mannered and conciliatory in his approach.
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Let me emphasize, straight away, that he isn't what I would call a friend, but I know him enough to say that he did purposely design himself: single, modest dresser in receding colours, mathematics teacher, sponsor of the chess club, mild-mannered acquaintance to all rather than a friend to any, a person anxious to become invisible.
Excerpt: Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
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To see him at work you would think he was a mild-mannered postal worker, happily idling along on a red postie bike as he delivers the mail.
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As a public speaker, mild-mannered Governor McKinley of Ohio was no match for the Boy Orator of the Platte, but as one McKinley enthusiast rejoiced to point out, the Platte was a river “six inches deep and six miles wide at the mouth.”
The Five of Hearts
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He was mild-mannered and polite, attempting light humour to put me at my ease.
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A Good Marriage" is an especially excruciating story of a woman who discovers that her husband of 20 years has maintained a secret identity beyond—and behind—the daily mask he wears as a mild-mannered numismatist.
Twelve Months of Reading
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He sounds like a slightly demented five-year-old child, while at the same time looking like anybody's mild-mannered uncle.
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His most successful role to date has been that of Thermoman - alias mild-mannered shopkeeper, George Sunday - in My Hero.
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Hormones can turn even the most mild-mannered -- or, if not mild-mannered, so passive-aggressive as to SEEM mild-mannered -- person into a total psycho hosebag.
I'm Back, Large (Very Large) and in Charge
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And what about Brown's mild-mannered demeanour, wondered Gray; could his intelligence and articulateness have been detrimental to doing the job properly?
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House of Fury: A mild-mannered bonesetter turns out to be a top-notch secret agent, semi-retired.
Action triple feature today, Raleigh-Durham shuttle departing at noon
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A mild-mannered couple use a variety of distract-and-grab schemes to steal laptops from business travelers.
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This week brings the publication of a book next to which Truss seems a mild-mannered word whisperer.
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Forrest was normally mild-mannered, affable, and untalkative.
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This sent my normally mild-mannered father, who was eating dinner at the time, into a rage.
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In addition, the unceasing soundtrack of light, R & B-influenced pop and mild-mannered rock is sending me slightly barmy.
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Jacob does not know how to react to this headstrong woman who is nothing like the mild-mannered wife he had loved.
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I hadn't taught Mark but the teachers who did said he was good-humoured, mild-mannered, a clever lad who answered perceptively but didn't want to draw attention to himself.
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Michael Kinsley, writing in "The Washington Post" last March said, "CNN's Lou Dobbs, formerly a mild-mannered news anchor, noted for his palsy-walsy interviews with corporate CEOs has turned into a raving popular xenophobe.
CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2006
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In addition, the unceasing soundtrack of light, R & B-influenced pop and mild-mannered rock is sending me slightly barmy.
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It's a clarion call to the meek, the mild-mannered and the indecisive.
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Before we go a sentence further, I must tell you, I am truly a mild-mannered fella, benignly boisterous at times, but, a Peaceful Percy for the most part.
Binky Philips: I Get Bounced From the Buzzcocks
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Even the mild-mannered people out in the provinces are now saying that there will be civil disobedience.