You’re crying. ” “I’m not. ” “Right,” he said mildly. “I suppose you got rained on.
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity
If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life. . . and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.
After Skins I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.
Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.
The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly. . . "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.
To put it mildly, the world is a mess
Magnus sighed. "Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two. " He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified. "Too much information?
Wasn't that awesome?" Seth asked. Warren cocked his head, his expression mildly embarrassed. "I'm sorry, Kendra--it was pretty cool. " "All boys belong in insane asylums," Kendra said.
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.
They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English food, much of which was designed and manufactured in medieval times during the reign of King Walter the Mildly Disturbed.
Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.
I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go.
Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.
In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future
We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will be that as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.