mild-mannered
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A hard game looks a little too easy to the mild-mannered Canadian, and the public is antsy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Through interviews, legal analysis, and archival research, the mild-mannered Westerner emerges as the court’s most unpredictable—and most important—sitting justice.
From Slate ● May 13, 2026
Sitting across from the mild-mannered Gadd, the magnitude of his transformation on screen for “Half Man” becomes even more impressive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
The mild-mannered yet imposingly masculine Andrew is quietly appealing as he deals with his erratic wife’s sudden tantrums and plate-shattering outbursts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Pigeons could be made to look like roosters and peacocks, and dogs made short-haired, long-haired, pied, piebald, bowlegged, hairless, crop-tailed, vicious, mild-mannered, diffident, guarded, belligerent.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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