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Example sentences for: mild-mannered

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I remember, in art school, watching otherwise mild-mannered students hyperventilate, grimace, and lunge at their canvases, trying desperately to imitate de Kooning's slashing gestures.
What you should know is that by day the Shopping Avenger is a mild-mannered reporter for a major metropolitan magazine, and it is in this guise that the Shopping Avenger sometimes finds himself holding the short end of the consumer stick.
The bright light of the early years of the Renaissance, the talented painter died at 27 after only five years of promising creative activity (1423–1428), working with his mild-mannered teacher Masolino on scenes from Genesis and the life of St. Peter.
Just as court ritual is still colored by the ancient customs of pre-Muslim Malaya, so a mild-mannered Sunnite version of the Muslim religion is often seasoned, amid this all-pervasive nature, with a generous spoonful of the more ancient beliefs of animist medicine-men.
The Shopping Avenger argued in his mild-mannered manner that British Airways did not, in fact, have a commitment to "on-time departures" because the originating flight did not depart on time.