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"mild-mannered" Definitions
  1. (of a person) gentle and not usually getting angry or violent

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"We're just boring, mild-mannered shrinks with boring, mild-mannered patients who talk about life's troubles," Dr. Sacco said.
"He's mild-mannered, he doesn't scream, he doesn't yell," she said.
Now the mild-mannered Mr. Merkley is having a breakout moment.
But the threat roused Mr. Northam, 57, a mild-mannered physician.
She is faithful, mild mannered, and a silent presence in most situations.
He is a mild-mannered politician and man, a stereotype of Canadians.
Councilman Diep goes about his day like any mild mannered civil servant.
The bespectacled imam, a mild-mannered family friend, speaks with uncharacteristic steel.
As much as his mild-mannered nature will allow him to, anyway.
TONY EVERS, Wisconsin's incoming governor, is a conciliatory and mild-mannered sort.
At the convention, the usually mild-mannered, retired Marine four-star Gen.
The mild-mannered Pieters morphs into an animated character on the course.
This is as aggressive as the generally mild-mannered Dr. Soutphommasane gets.
Even the mild-mannered Bing Crosby was briefly persuaded to try one.
Few expect that the mild-mannered Mr. Moreno can sustain his success.
Here came the Sunday school Cincinnatus: a mild-mannered dermatologist, Baptist deacon.
" Antonio Tajani, the normally mild-mannered president of the Parliament, interjected. "Mr.
Johnny (Eugene Levy) is the mild-mannered businessman patriarch of the family.
MARTíN VIZCARRA, Peru's mild-mannered president, knows how to spring a surprise.
But the mild mannered Norwegian seemed to say it was going pretty well.
You are a mild-mannered guy who cares about the rule of law.
They often demand that Black women be mild-mannered, sexually pure, and ladylike.
After "Mary Tyler Moore," Engel got more mileage from her mild-mannered persona.
And when he does, he doesn't abandon his shyness and mild-mannered demeanor.
Gareth Southgate, the English team's mild-mannered, magnanimous manager, has no such problem.
The David is a Plymouth sedan driven by a mild-mannered traveling salesman.
Today's show examines how a mild-mannered ophthalmologist became the ruler of Syria.
This time, it's mild-mannered Devin who takes issue with Luke's unflattering name-dropping.
Does the mild-mannered actor know his Hero for Hire from his Con Air?
It's time for these mild-mannered dorks to rise and take back our country.
The mild-mannered lawyer from Wisconsin is caught in the middle of a firestorm.
What do the cute, mild-mannered pets have to do with federal tax policy?
That call for tech support could get even the most mild-mannered person upset.
One day, a mild-mannered Welsh bartender decided she wanted to breed a racehorse.
And they tend to be mild-mannered folk who don't garotte too many dissidents.
These two mild-mannered lads were about to become Reigate's answer to Daft Punk.
In late March, however, the paddock hummed with mild-mannered hybrid and electric cars.
These two mild-mannered lads were about to become Reigate's answer to Daft Punk.
The mild-mannered Remigino was not expected to qualify for the six-man final.
By day, I was a mild-mannered employee, dutifully getting my assignments done as normal.
"In real life she's very mild mannered, easy to get along with, easygoing," Hayden says.
What does a mild-mannered dad dream of conquering when he hits his late-fifties?
Many people in Hong Kong regard the three mild-mannered, bespectacled men as political prisoners.
Meek and mild-mannered -- at times, even polite -- is how one Kalamazoo official described him.
Toward the end of the movie, Jane, a third, mild-mannered "alter," enters the mix.
Sarkozy's main rival, mild-mannered former prime minister Alain Juppe, calls Sarkozy's campaign strategy "suicidal".
He has five children and a mild-mannered demeanor, more soccer dad than psycho killer.
Apparently not all of Cornell's singing groups are as mild-mannered as Here Comes Treble.
Mr. Saccone, a mild-mannered Air Force intelligence veteran, aggressively linked himself to Mr. Trump.
The mild-mannered daughter of missionaries, Rea had devoted herself to her bright, inquisitive son.
The man, Cornell Lockhart, 67, was known to be mild-mannered and in declining health.
Mr. Colyer, more mainstream and mild-mannered, served seven years as Sam Brownback's lieutenant governor.
As ruthless as cicada killers are with cicadas, they are quite mild mannered around humans.
Amiably cool and mild-mannered, Mr. Fluevog, 70 and from Vancouver, British Columbia, doesn't disagree.
Mr. Rice, mild-mannered by nature, fought the deal and warned against such aggressive tactics.
Not satisfied with this mild-mannered approach, Audrey takes a hammer and bashes her head in.
"He was very mild-mannered and she is like a force of nature," the source said.
Sal, who his father described as mild mannered, was caught in the middle of the melee.
Even the smallest thing can set off mild-mannered complexions, like sleeping on a hotel pillowcase.
The campaigns of the two main parties were generally mild-mannered and at times painfully polite.
The bloc led by Iraq's mild-mannered prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, came second, with 51.
What was most striking on "Today" was the way Clinton turned on the mild-mannered Melvin.
A late order or missing item will send the most mild-mannered customer into Cujo territory.
Keep an eye on Carson himself -- a mild-mannered candidate who hasn't attacked in previous debates.
Crowley, who's widely seen as friendly and mild-mannered among Democrats, was not available for comment.
Some of the potentially most offensive scenes turn up, uncensored, in the mild-mannered HBO film.
Author Alison Roman shuns mild-mannered foods and favors crunchy, citrusy, smoky, and otherwise bold flavors.
His sexless marriage has left the otherwise mild-mannered Southern gentleman prone to fits of rage.
The fact that Mr. Castro had been typecast as mild-mannered has grated on his campaign.
His physical prowess is a terrifying contrast to the mild-mannered, cerebral personality we've already seen.
The fact-checker, a presumably mild-mannered figure, suddenly took on the menace of an interrogator.
"The Daily" podcast explores how Mr. Assad went from mild-mannered ophthalmology student to brutal ruler.
"Behind this mild-mannered facade, they're a bunch of wild and crazy Presbyterians," she added, laughing.
The 5-Star leader, Luigi Di Maio, called on parliament to impeach the mild-mannered Mattarella.
Danny Garcia is mild-mannered, determined, businesslike, and happy to let his results speak for themselves.
In a recent campaign ad, the mild-mannered lieutenant-governor described Mr Trump as a "narcissistic maniac".
Superman, or Superdiva, had turned back into her original identity, an engaging, mild-mannered piano-bar entertainer.
Finally, writers may be mild-mannered, but everyone likes to get fighting mad once in a while.
And this is the point at which mild-mannered space junk experts improbably morph into techno-visionaries.
Grace is a sensation, a celebrity even, in large part because she's a young, mild-mannered woman.
Honestly, inciting mostly mild mannered San Diego fans to egg your headquarters is itself quite an accomplishment.
Seyed Emami was a thoughtful, mild-mannered man, a sociologist and patriot with a love of nature.
It is the voice of a mild-mannered civil servant — cerebral, courtly, deferential and exquisitely self-conscious.
How did a mild-mannered ophthalmologist become a ruler who uses chemical weapons against his own people?
Although he is more mild-mannered than his father, he has a trace of the family braggadocio.
What had brought me — a mild-mannered Mormon grandmother and a children's book writer — to this place?
Our podcast "The Daily" explores how Mr. Assad went from mild-mannered ophthalmology student to brutal ruler.
This is far from being a "mild-mannered reporter at a great metropolitan newspaper" like Clark Kent.
Unfortunately for Michael Bennet, it's 2020 and his mild-mannered personality and centrist platform haven't broken through.
The president's remark caused an unusual international incident between the United States and a mild-mannered ally.
It's been an eye-opening experience for Buttigieg, a mild-mannered candidate who seems allergic to bragging.
Cantor was a hard-line conservative, but mild-mannered in affect, and perceived as soft on immigration.
Gofman might be a mild-mannered voice of reason looking to work together, but his supporters are furious.
Or had times changed so that not even the most mild-mannered dissent could have stemmed the tide?
Accompanying them is Malcolm (Clark Carmichael), a mild-mannered novelist with whom Anna has forged a comfortable marriage.
Kaine, who it turns out, isn't just a mild-mannered nice guy, was a breath of fresh air.
Entertaining foreign journalists (a rare event) at his farm east of Kinshasa, the capital, he is mild-mannered.
But there is no heavy hitter to speak up for Remain beyond its mild-mannered chairman, Hilary Benn.
But the un-killable Hulk -- or at least his mild-mannered human analog -- has now been brought down.
One row with Mervyn King left the mild-mannered Bank of England governor bashing the table in fury.
For all his volume on set, Esmail is "extraordinarily mild-mannered," Slater tells me over the phone later.
Here are some of Mr. Trump's greatest hits against the mild-mannered brain surgeon who now supports him.
Trump boasted about winning the former GOP candidate's backing during an unusually mild-mannered CNN debate in Miami.
On his first foreign trip, Mr. Trump was mild-mannered in the Middle East and blunter in Europe.
" On several occasions, Stone's mild-mannered attorney, Robert Buschel, stepped in to urge his client to "calm down.
In Monday's interview, the mild-mannered Meadows said he is cordial with Ryan but not a close friend.
With his popularity ratings stuck behind Mr. Moon's, the usually mild-mannered Mr. Ban began bridling at criticism.
"Righteous women are gentle, mild-mannered, and meek particularly in the company of men of authority," Dushku writes.
It takes human form, sometimes as that nice, mild-mannered man behind the desk of a hotel lobby.
So, how does this mild mannered and seemingly humble zookeeper feel about being in the limelight as of late?
Pence's solid experience, mild mannered demeanor and message discipline provide a balance that may reassure uneasy Republicans and donors.
Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, Indonesia's mild-mannered president, has said that he will "crush" groups that imperil pancasila.
The elder Sattar, now 58, was a seemingly mild-mannered postal-service worker raising his family in Staten Island.
He can still be a superstar, but he's got to be a mild-mannered superstar from here on out.
The kind of story a plucky filmmaker would love twenty years from now: mild mannered booksellers become pirate librarians!
But for mild-mannered amphibian retailers who don't want to break the law, there's a very tangible economic impact.
Make America Great Again in this case would be Make Mild-Mannered Humiliated Conservatives Like Mike Pence Great Again.
"I'm a pretty understated, mild-mannered guy — she's over the top, she brings a lot of energy," he says.
The mild-mannered Republican, who did not seek reelection in November, was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
But those gains evaporated steadily in ensuing months as the mild-mannered Schulz failed to drum up voter enthusiasm.
Mr. Pence, more formal and mild-mannered than his rival, seemed frustrated by the fusillade coming from Mr. Kaine.
The mild-mannered Northam defeated a more liberal challenger in his own primary — Tom Perriello, who had Sanders's backing.
He was mild-mannered and long married and had earned wide respect as a dermatologist in his hometown, Tuscaloosa.
He is fifty-seven, bespectacled, mild-mannered, and quick to blush, and he has an understated sense of humor.
Unlike many vice presidential running mates, the mild-mannered Pence was not tapped as the attack dog in the Nov.
" Obi Henderson, who knew Means from a nonprofit he founded to help young people, described the teenager as "mild-mannered.
Sam could have been captured by Baron Von Triumph (mild mannered Matthew Broderick), the motorcycle-driving cannibal terrorizing Daybreak's teens.
Successive Thai governments have long fostered public adulation of the monarchy—an easier task under the king's mild-mannered father.
It's the image of Canada as a tolerant, progressive, kind and humanitarian nation, populated by mild-mannered and polite people.
Clark's righteous, aggressive personality is offset by Christopher Darden's (Sterling K. Brown) mild-mannered exhaustion with the broken legal system.
In February King Muhammad sent the mild-mannered prime minister, Saad Eddine El Othmani, on a conciliatory tour of Jerada.
Allies say Najib is a mild-mannered gentleman with a wry sense of humor who loves golf and his cats.
When it comes to President Barack Obama's undeclared war against ISIS, the normally mild-mannered senator can sound borderline uncollegial.
Oh, say can you see Dr. Drew Pinsky -- mild-mannered radio and TV doctor -- singing like Boccelli, Domingo or Pavarotti??
As a baby, he was "mild-mannered," never having tasted a cookie; things changed after his mother baked a batch.
They're mild-mannered and courteous in public, so someone else has to do the dirty work of winning for them.
Instead he issued a mild-mannered tweet shrugging off the defeat: "A win is a win," he wrote Tuesday evening.
What you don't see from Judge Polster's mild-mannered order is the fierce fight for public opinion that prompted it.
"There is room for everyone," said Mr. Pauliac — calm, polite and mild-mannered — adding that he hopes for an agreement.
Conason did a screen test but was never asked back; eventually, the job went to the mild-mannered Alan Colmes.
The mild-mannered Bryce Dessner is not the first composer I would have thought of to set them to music.
More than a dozen former business associates, family members, and acquaintances describe Takeda as mild-mannered and lacking business savvy.
"As a client, Frank was smart, mild-mannered and low key," his lawyer at the time, Harlan J. Protass, said.
For starters, he's a mild-mannered 2000-year-old middle class student from a loving family in England's west country.
The mild-mannered leader of the Republican People's Party stepped aside to allow his feistier colleague, Mr. Ince, to run.
As Kansas' state treasurer, the mild-mannered Mr. Estes, an engineer by trade, has twice been on a statewide ballot.
"He seemed real personable, very mild-mannered," Rael recalled over a smothered burrito lunch on a recent weekday in Questa.
Like many soft-spoken, mild-mannered people, I've spent a great deal of time trying to present myself this way.
Not quite on the same level as Brad Stevens, but cut from a similar cloth: young, mild-mannered, and adaptable.
After seeing this scenario play out over and over, the mild-mannered Indian-American physician came up with a scheme.
Clinton came on, a mild-mannered Belgian couple sat patiently in the back, hoping to catch a glimpse of the candidate.
Sometimes by being angrier and more insistent you get what you want, and being cooperative and mild-mannered you get ignored.
GENERAL practitioners, pillars of British communities and the first points of contact for primary care, are mostly a mild-mannered bunch.
The baby is played by Robert Downey Jr. Drug PrincipalTrent Vickman (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a mild-mannered high school principal... NOT.
" She said Mishcon was a "very special person" and called Stevens "one of the sweetest, mild-mannered men you'd ever meet.
LIM JAE-SUNG is a mild-mannered lawyer in his thirties with a fondness for monogrammed shirts and human-rights cases.
Within a few years, she had gone from being a "gentle, mild-mannered" daughter to an "Energizer Bunny missionary," she writes.
AUGUSTO SANTOS SILVA, the foreign minister of Portugal's three-month-old Socialist government, is a mild-mannered sociologist, not a firebrand.
" Andersen describes Mishcon as a "very special person" and called Stevens "one of the sweetest, mild-mannered men you'd ever meet.
The video shows a calm, mild-mannered 18-year-old wearing nondescript clothes -- a white t-shirt, baseball cap and headphones.
Zorn discovers to his horror that his "little bone crusher" son is now a mild-mannered vegetarian who enjoys kale juice.
Widely perceived as a matchup between two relatively mild-mannered politicians, Tuesday's debate between Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia and Gov.
A mild-mannered lawyer, he initially seemed no match for the gruff General Pinochet, who remained the army commander in chief.
Some people call him an "impresario," but he comes across more like a mild-mannered cardiologist than like P. T. Barnum.
And, somewhat surprisingly, the usually mild-mannered filmmaker had a lot to say about that during Loving's official Cannes press conference.
Several of the early pictures at the Met Breuer — of well-dressed shoppers and window displays — are mild-mannered and ordinary.
Mr. Frost is a mild-mannered eccentric who dabbles in several pursuits, all while caring for his ailing (and charming) mother.
Kessler is a dapper, mild-mannered guy who says he's "pretty even-keeled," even as Trump messes hourly with his head.
" Frost is a mild-mannered guy, 5'10" with black-rimmed glasses, a former Division-III hockey player who is still fit.
But the mild-mannered engineer — described, like many of CEO Sundar Pichai's deputies, as lacking a big ego — is no novice.
The "Finnish Nightmares" comic series documents the social challenges faced by Matti, a mild-mannered stick figure who abhors small talk.
Reporting on his death in 1881, The New York Times described Billy the Kid as slim, good-looking and mild-mannered.
In Houston, some 22017,22017 miles from the world championships, a mild-mannered cross-country coach named Steve Magness absorbed the news.
Turkey's marchers, led by the C.H.P.'s mild-mannered leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, are demonstrating against a more Turkish form of injustice.
For years, we mild-mannered lexicographers have been posting online about the most common lookup of the moment on our website.
Such a system would see Davutoglu, a more mild-mannered academic and former diplomat lacking Erdogan's natural appeal to crowds, sidelined.
Both daters are mild-mannered, and the encounter stays pleasantly afloat—that is, until the mention of "holographic cameras" comes up.
The R-rated comedy, from the writing team behind Neighbors, tracks the duo's transformation from mild-mannered parents into reprobate Mob bosses.
On the show, the mild-mannered dad worked from home so his wife could return to her demanding job as a reporter.
"Casey in the presence of the jury was very calm, very easygoing, mild-mannered, in a very sympathetic-appearing person," he said.
Oh, Netflix is premiering a series about a mild-mannered brunette father and husband who's actually caught up in the drug trade?
Lois Lane was a friend of Superman and a colleague of Clark Kent, the mild-mannered reporter who was Superman's alter ego.
Its candidate is Joseph Boakai, Ms Sirleaf's mild-mannered vice-president, who is seen by many as a safe (and uncorrupt) choice.
In so many Marvel movies, science and technology have been used to retaliate, punish, or turn mild-mannered men into the Hulk.
Mr. Church is mild-mannered, kind, circumspect, a voracious reader, an impeccable cook, and before long, a devoted member of the household.
Jackson, you're otherwise known by your mild-mannered alter ego, artist Tom Bagley, and your work has decorated every release and flyer.
For now, they can be found online -- and in the emboldened minds of 15 mild-mannered kids with the hearts of superheroes.
By all accounts he was mild-mannered and dutiful, always hanging just to the side of things, always polite and well-spoken.
" Tim Kaine, the typically mild-mannered Virginia senator who was Clinton's VP candidate, told CNN, "We are now beyond obstruction of justice.
The story later appeared in "Knight's Gambit," a mystery collection by Faulkner featuring a mild-mannered yet shrewd country lawyer from Mississippi.
"The language of this government will be mild-mannered," he added, in a clear swipe at the League's outspoken leader, Matteo Salvini.
The unexpected triumph of the mild-mannered, bookish, Occident-curious Mohammad Khatami in the 1997 presidential election fueled the possibility of change.
The story later appeared in "Knight's Gambit," a mystery collection from Faulkner featuring a mild-mannered yet shrewd country lawyer from Mississippi.
Mr. Dubke, a mild-mannered veteran of national politics, was among the aides who struggled to impose discipline on an undisciplined president.
The 1993 film Rudy offers the saccharine story of underdog Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, a mild-mannered kid from a blue collar family.
" On the Senate floor Thursday, the usually mild-mannered Gardner was outraged, calling the decision "a trampling of Colorado's rights, its voters.
In 249, a mild-mannered musician named Bruce Haack appeared on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and explained how his homemade electronic instruments worked.
The usually mild-mannered Rodgers did not intend to single out his teammates, but he said he was frustrated with the scout team.
Two are his adopted nephews: the violent-tempered John, better known as "Ace" (Paul Sparks), and Ace's mild-mannered brother Chris (Matthew Alan).
That's the premise of the comedy Fist Fight, which pits mild-mannered English teacher Andy (Charlie Day) against his colleague Ron (Ice Cube).
Mr Trebek, its mild-mannered host, was recently diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer and is likely to hand over the reins soon.
And the mild-mannered headline "Ahead of Vote, Promised Treasury Analysis of Tax Bill Proves Elusive" doesn't come close to doing it justice.
Daniel Portman — who plays the mild-mannered Pod in the show and also retweeted McGreggor's original post — made his views pretty clear, too.
Abdullah the Butcher was part of it, as was Baron Von Raschke, a mild-mannered Minnesotan cosplaying as a Nazi in a cape.
"We think people associate us with the absence" of the Islamic State in Khorasan, said Captain J., a mild-mannered 31-year-old.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He could also be a pragmatic strategist and, though generally shy and mild-mannered, a sometimes strident advocate.
His "Landscape with Anteater" in the show is a mild-mannered thing; block out the coconut palms and you're in Claude Lorrain's Italy.
Even a mild mannered person without the kind of coarse personal history Bannon owns is likely to lash out after essentially getting fired.
Consider the case of Canada, a small, mild-mannered neighbor that could be badly hurt by a trade war with its giant neighbor.
The normally reserved and mild-mannered Roberts, 64, will have the largely symbolic role of presiding officer, with senators casting the crucial votes.
Now the company feels menacing, ready to turn on Peter, whose plight is enhanced by his resemblance to a beleaguered, mild-mannered psychotherapist.
Blake, it seems, is revered with the utmost admiration, like some mild-mannered well of British talent that everyone wants a swig from.
The normally mild-mannered Gomez entered the game after Chicago, trailing 3-1, loaded the bases with nobody out against his predecessor, Hector Neris.
Krauthammer delivered his views in a mild-mannered, steady and almost philosophical style, befitting his background in psychiatry and detailed analysis of human behavior.
Josh and Hazel have known each other since college, and they've always been opposites — Hazel, spontaneous and action-seeking; Josh, responsible and mild-mannered.
Whether you're hanging with a nature-loving nephew, a mild-mannered mom, or a cranky teen cousin, we've got just the thing for you.
The performance was a breath of fresh air in a very mild-mannered awards show completely brushing over the country's current state of chaos.
Mild-mannered Juppe, who was prime minister in 1995-97, triggering national strikes with a welfare reform program, is very popular among undecided voters.
There's nothing specifically wrong with Mike, except that Claire could certainly do better, and his mild-mannered gameness isn't enough to explain her interest.
In the second strand, which visualises the story in the novel, a mild-mannered man (Jake Gyllenhaal) is terrorised by hoodlums in West Texas.
The mild-mannered Massachusetts Democrat, who has served in Congress since 1989, is expected to proceed carefully to ensure he's complying with the law.
Victor is an engineer who fits many of the American stereotypes of Asians: He's financially successful, well-educated, shy at first, and mild-mannered.
These attacks essentially branded Northam, a mild-mannered pediatrician who served in the Army, as some unhinged leftie eager to give guns to pedophiles.
At Auburn, Tuberville established a reputation as a mild-mannered coach and charming recruiter who led the Tigers to an undefeated record in 2600.
In the film, Clark's stage alter ego is a sharp-edged, take-no-prisoners performance artist, while offstage she's mild-mannered and pretty boring.
Never one to upstage the boss, be it the president or secretary of state, Mr. Biegun is mild-mannered and deferential, the anti-Pompeo.
But it is in his day job on the Supreme Court that the mild-mannered jurist could have a bigger impact on Trump's presidency.
He's mild mannered, he's more Clark Kent, and Jack's the Superman," said Duncan Clark, the author of "Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built.
Similarly, a piece following her around for BBC4 shows a mild-mannered, contemplative Poly gently navigating the London streets and getting ready for shows.
Wisconsin has a long history of electing soft-spoken, mild-mannered politicians from both sides of the aisle, while shunning big talkers and carnival barkers.
Chandra is mild-mannered, soft-spoken, and cautiously thoughtful in person, but as an author he writes sex scenes that steam and action that pounds.
Mild-mannered nice guy Frank, who couldn't bring himself to shoot a man in season one, joins the rebels in increasingly bloody and anarchic missions.
Superman – otherwise known as mild-mannered Clark Kent – is one of the most iconic characters in comic book history and a mainstay of Hollywood blockbusters.
His best movie in this period, 2014's Edge of Tomorrow, is about a guy who feigns bravado but is actually a mild-mannered quisling.
The 2001 terrorist attacks on America also helped persuade the West that the democratically elected, mild-mannered and pro-business AK party was worth supporting.
In stark contrast to his very intimidating appearance — he is covered in tattoos, the word "Skinhead" inked across his knuckles — Mr. Flanagan is mild-mannered.
Mike Pence of Indiana came to his vice-presidential audition here on Tuesday night as prepared as a mild-mannered, socially conservative governor could be.
Eddie is investigating Riz Ahmed's equally mild-mannered but definitely evil scientist, Dr. Carlton Drake, while flirting hard with Drake's lawyer Anne Weying (Michelle Williams).
A Needed Cold Shower: Even Style himself disowned his P.U.A. legacy, morphing back to Neil Strauss, a now mild-mannered husband, father and life counselor.
Mr. Price, an intense sort, came chest to chest with the mild-mannered Mr. Anderson as he shrieked in triumph over a particularly good turn.
As Mr. Nordstrom told the story, he described the older gentleman as sweet and mild mannered and having to breathe with an portable oxygen tank.
Yankees Manager Aaron Boone's theatrical run-ins with umpires this summer might have surprised more than a few observers, given his otherwise mild-mannered demeanor.
When we meet him, he's been retired for the past nine years, spending his days as a mild-mannered high-school principal raising two daughters.
In presentation and speech, Mr. Trump, a bombastic Republican, and Mr. Trudeau, a more mild-mannered Liberal who is 25 years younger, are poles apart.
Some grouse that Haddad, a mild-mannered political science professor at the elite University of Sao Paulo, is not tough enough to take on Bolsonaro.
Despite his mild-mannered persona, there are a good number of people who seem genuinely convinced that Fred Rogers was anything but a gentle man.
A seemingly mild-mannered retiree and a proud mother from Oklahoma, she generally confined her social media content to tweets about TV and local Tulsa news.
Click here to view original GIFEven the most mild-mannered among us can't spend an afternoon inside a sprawling IKEA warehouse without leaving full of rage.
Mr Modi presents himself as a very different sort of statesman from Mr Singh, who was cerebral, bureaucratic and mild-mannered to the point of diffidence.
So I met with Lopez Obrador in 85033 and found him to be mild-mannered and funny, far different from the firebrand image I had formed.
Blankenship, a soft-spoken, mild-mannered candidate who little resembles President Donald Trump's personality, has cast himself as the "Trumpier than Trump" candidate in the race.
But outside groups on both sides are increasingly tracking the mild-mannered Democrat as a swing vote as the battle over Gorsuch kicks into high gear.
He was a pious, mild-mannered introvert, with no apparent real-world jihadi connections, yet online he wrote as if he were plotting a suicide attack.
The actors still carry scripts, though that is no bar to Mr. Mac's dangerous enthusiasm or Ms. Blackwell's mild-mannered insanity or Ms. Celik's infectious disdain.
He plays Howard Silk, a mild-mannered office drone for a United Nations-like organization, his job so arcane even he isn't sure what he does.
Mild-mannered off the ice — equally happy discussing musical interests, favorite cars or latest fashion trends — Lundqvist morphs into a caldron of intensity on the ice.
There was no shrieking or ripping coming from the heavens — and very little coming from the stage, where "The Thirteenth Child" made a mild-mannered impression.
His choice for ambassador to Moscow was his uncle Azizullah, a mild-mannered man well into his 70s who had been living in the United States.
He's old (39), he's a classically immobile pocket-passer, and he's a mild-mannered, overall dad-looking guy whose own father was an NFL quarterback, too.
Pichai is a mild-mannered political type who has held the respect of engineers and nontechnical workers — a former engineer with calm, technical expertise and charisma.
They will not be allowed to "flay the skin and suck the blood" of retail investors, he added, belying his earlier reputation as a mild-mannered bureaucrat.
Krystal's behavior has been been getting progressively more outrageous all season, and she's almost giddy when she finds out she's going up against quirky, mild-mannered Kendall.
Proving that Harley Quinn is not the squad's only kick-ass female, Delevingne's mild-mannered Moone transforms into the ghastly Enchantress while government bigwigs watch in horror.
Between all of the mild-mannered studenting and Avenger-style world saving (not to mention what transpired during Infinity War), Peter Parker could clearly use a break.
People who have worked with Carney describe him as a mild-mannered, soft-spoken leader with a calm demeanor who's often sipping on a cup of coffee.
" But he also read constantly—James Baldwin, Malcolm X, American history, poetry—and had the mild-mannered, upbeat personality of someone "blessed with good looks and charm.
And since Anik is about the most mild-mannered, uncontroversial guy you could have behind the microphone, he padded his prediction in praise for the Diaz brothers.
The editor of the paper, the mild-mannered, urbane Frank Giles, took the fall and was fired, bringing a distinguished career to an abrupt and ignominious end.
Since the attack, people who had encountered Mr. Adan have tried to reconcile the quiet, mild-mannered youth they saw with the bloody accounts of his actions.
Dr. Bolte, a mild-mannered U.C.S.C. professor with a soothing lilt to his voice, became one of the most visible promoters of the project in community meetings.
"It was an unbelievable performance from both of us and it's really unfortunate for Rafa," the mild-mannered Cilic told Jim Courier during his post-match interview.
Though mild-mannered in person, Haggerty is unafraid to make bold moves (if this one fails, his bid for re-election in 2019 certainly will suffer, too).
Mr. Okerlund, who was nicknamed Mean Gene by the wrestler (and future governor of Minnesota) Jesse Ventura, was a mild-mannered figure, especially by pro-wrestling standards.
In Orwell's novel, Winston is the unlikeliest of heroes, a mild-mannered middle-aged cog in the immense, soulless machine that makes his country, called Oceania, run.
Mr. Kuhn would then get angry and call the cautious prosecutor stupid for opting for a mild-mannered life as a civil servant over accepting a bribe.
A mild-mannered physician and Army veteran, Mr. Northam, 57, fended off Tom Perriello, a former congressman whose insurgent candidacy gave the state's Democratic establishment a scare.
For a decade, Nielsen, a mild-mannered center from Denmark, went about his job for the Islanders, through many trying years and a few moments of exultation.
The Party's leader, Bernd Lucke, was a mild-mannered free-market economist, whose agenda was based on a conviction that the euro was unsustainable as a currency.
He is trying to turn back the clock, to a time when a pragmatic, mild-mannered Democrat could win statewide office (Bredesen was the last, 12 years ago).
Tony Evers, a mild-mannered former teacher also succeeded, by the thinnest of whiskers, in stopping Scott Walker from getting a third term as Republican governor in Wisconsin.
He was best known for his role as Moses Hightower, the mild-mannered florist-turned-lawman in the film comedy "Police Academy" (1984) and many of its sequels.
The incredible surge enjoyed by Nvidia has been well-chronicled, but more mild-mannered fellow semiconductor stock Broadcom has managed to fly a bit more under the radar.
In an uncharacteristic move for the usually mild mannered senator, Booker had a confrontation with reporter Byron Tau, who asked if his Spartacus moment was a political stunt.
When William Brennan, a liberal icon and one of the Warren Court's last survivors, stepped down in 1990, Bush nominated the mild-mannered David Souter to replace him.
Bronson and his squad of sauntering, mild-mannered colleagues—most often, his collaborator Big Body Bes; the cherubic, winsome rapper Meyhem Lauren; and the lanky producer and d.j.
At the age of 27 Fillon was elected mayor of Sable, and worked his way up the political ladder to become Sarkozy's mild mannered prime minster in 2007.
In contrast, Faso, a more mild-mannered Republican, has eschewed some of Trumpism, voting against his tax plan and dismissing the President's role in his re-election bid.
A normally mild-mannered lawmaker, Schiff had worked hard in recent days to maintain a veneer of bipartisanship when it came to Nunes and the Trump wiretapping probe.
He was a golden retriever (mild mannered and well behaved), but certainly the pit bulls in his shop would get the goods on the president and First Lady.
His assistant was on vacation, he explained, and he had observed me in town and judged me to be an enterprising young man, mild-mannered, reliable, and obedient.
Mactaggart and his team were scheduled to meet Ed Chau, a mild-mannered lawmaker from outside Los Angeles who leads the Assembly's committee on privacy and consumer protection.
And Britons generally warmed to a mild-mannered vegetarian who makes his own jam and did not seem as menacing as he had been portrayed by the tabloids.
A wild multiple-player fight that included the normally mild-mannered Chris Paul and Brandon Ingram stole the spotlight shining on James's official landing on the West Coast.
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The mild-mannered Mr. Brewer emphasized that he would be a full-time governor and not spend time running for president, as his opponent was expected to do.
State Representative Joe Straus, the speaker of the Texas House, has long employed a mild-mannered, commerce-focused brand of Republican politics in the mold of former Gov.
"We're just mild-mannered Canadians, we're not claiming we're superior, but we wanted to make a better and more efficient way," said McKinney, who worked on the project.
Manatees, which are three separate but closely related species of mild-mannered aquatic mammals that graze on sea grass and other plants, are basically nature's good boys and girls.
"He basically thinks we can't lose, that we go out on the water and win," the more mild-mannered Bond said of his team mate after their Rio triumph.
Roberts, 65, is a reserved and mild-mannered jurist who held posts in the administrations of two Republican presidents before becoming a solid conservative vote on the Supreme Court.
I'm usually a mild-mannered guy, but I got a little testy in asking him how Wells Fargo not only made the DiversityInc list but moved up this year.
Rouhani, known for decades as a mild-mannered member of the establishment, campaigned as an ardent reformist to stir up the passions of young, urban voters yearning for change.
The couple's Mesquite real estate agent, meanwhile, finds it almost impossible to square the mild-mannered man to whom she sold a home with the now-notorious mass murderer.
The one time I met him, in 1997, this seemingly mild-mannered man was rubbing his chin because a "friend" had punched him in the jaw the night before.
In my inbox, he bore little resemblance to the mild-mannered candidate hoping to break out from the back of the pack that I had seen in real life.
MOST HEARTBREAKING COMEDY For the last four seasons, "Nathan for You" has essentially been an inspired prank show with a mild-mannered consultant giving terrible advice to small businesses.
While Mr. Colyer was viewed as a mild-mannered moderate, Mr. Kobach, endorsed by President Trump, was known widely for his strident views on illegal immigration and voter fraud.
Jon Osterman, the normal-skinned guy who would become the blue raspberry-skinned Dr. Manhattan, was just a normal, mild-mannered nuclear physicist and son of, yes, a watchmaker.
Davis Love III chuckled at the memory of his normally mild-mannered father exploding in anger because another player in his sectional group had repeatedly shown poor course etiquette.
And after Mr. Trump was battered by divisive partisan confirmations of his appointees, the mild-mannered defender of government health care was confirmed by the Senate, 100 to zero.
In 28503, a mild-mannered U.S. senator from South Dakota named George McGovern, who started with 22019 percent in the polls, became the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
More than anything, aides came to regret the interview because it was largely ineffective, particularly after Kavanaugh disproved the mild-mannered image in his highly-charged testimony days later.
The figure skater told USA Today that he was open to the "possibility" of meeting Pence after competing, adding that the vice president seems "more mild-mannered" than Trump.
Mr. Coats, a mild-mannered conservative who served on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, would be stepping into a position that some in Washington believe is superfluous.
Could this mild-mannered star, which is around 50 percent bigger than our Sun and is located some 1,200 light years from Earth, be home to an extraterrestrial civilization?
HILLSBORO, Ohio — Senator Rob Portman, a mild-mannered Republican seeking re-election in the era of Donald J. Trump, has long pitched himself as a voice of reason in Washington.
Mike Pence of Indiana, the reliably conservative and mild-mannered counterbalance to the brash billionaire, top Republican officials are pressing Trump to tap Priebus for the top White House post.
Chun, a mild-mannered man with high cheekbones and wavy gray hair, is one of a band of Korean pastors who specialize in helping North Korean women escape from China.
Humala, a mild-mannered former military officer who governed Peru from 2011 to 2016, turned himself in with Heredia, the co-founder of his nationalist party, immediately after the ruling.
"For now, we are trying to resolve this through diplomacy," says Mr Tshisekedi, a mild-mannered man of 53 who affects his father's somewhat incongruous flat cap for public appearances.
I remember, many years ago, sitting on my parents' bed as my father — a mild-mannered engineer — dug through their closet, pulling out blade after blade from his knife collection.
The normally mild-mannered cleric is trying to hold on to office by firing up reformist voters who want less confrontation abroad and more social and economic freedom at home.
Both he and Marc try to recruit their mild-mannered friend Yvan (Sean Dugan) to their cause, though his nature makes him a buffer, and occasional victim, in the battle.
Cam Edwards, a mild-mannered Oklahoman who hosts a three-hour talk show on weekdays, interviews writers from the Daily Caller, columnists from Town Hall, and owners of shooting ranges.
Mild mannered racing fan The 62 year old lawyer-turned-politician grew up in a strict Catholic household in Sarthe, western France, to a notary father and history teacher mother.
Hickenlooper expected to end presidential bid on Thursday MORE (Colo.): The typically mild-mannered Colorado Democrat kicked off his time on the dais on a light-hearted note, thanking Rep.
Mr. Pence and Mr. Kaine are both relatively mild-mannered candidates who are not overly combative and their showdown lacked the fanfare that the top of the ticket has received.
But a few minutes into his mild-mannered spiel with me, Gerrard switched gears and started tearing into the importance of safety and privacy for the online black dating community.
Long before the rise of Mr. Trump — for more than half a century — social scientists have tried to figure out why some seemingly mild-mannered people gravitate toward a strongman.
The election of the mild-mannered Mr. Van der Bellen ends a bitter yearlong campaign, which had pitted him against Norbert Hofer, a leader of the far-right Freedom Party.
The first time Alderson hired a manager, at Oakland in 1983, he replaced the fiery Billy Martin with Steve Boros, a mild-mannered former infielder who hoped to teach literature.
It's not just that, in the state-run Saudi Press Agency's preposterous telling, a mild-mannered 59-year-old somehow got himself into a fatal fistfight with multiple Saudi officials.
In the film (as, presumably, in real life), Clark's stage alter ego is a sharp-edged, take-no-prisoners performance artist, while off-stage she's mild-mannered and pretty boring.
Ted Cruz with a passionate speech that saw the usually mild-mannered senator raising his voice to accuse Cruz of crying "crocodile tears" for lamenting a tactic Cruz once used himself.
Their lives all intersect with that of Vernon, a mild-mannered former record shop owner who finds himself living on the street after the mysterious death of his rock star friend.
The hiring has been led by Schmuhl, the mild-mannered South Bend native helming Buttigieg's campaign, while the media strategy has been crafted by Lis Smith, Buttigieg's 36-year-old spokeswoman.
But in January 1993, the 23-year-old Akebono won his second straight tournament, and the Yokozuna Promotion Council couldn't deny that the mild-mannered, serious sportsman had earned the rank.
For two weeks the kingdom insisted that Mr Khashoggi had left the consulate safely—until October 0003th, when it claimed that the mild-mannered journalist was accidentally killed in a brawl.
Whatever the real nature of his job, mild-mannered Haruto-san, with his black-rimmed glasses and a habit of nodding diligently, looked more like a professor than a government agent.
The retired neurosurgeon used that time to talk about his mild-mannered demeanor and argue that -- despite GOP concerns -- it would help him confront a Democratic opponent in the general election.
Kennedy, mild-mannered and professorial, sometimes joined the liberal justices on key rulings, earning a reputation as the court's "swing" vote who heartened conservatives and liberals alike, depending on the issue.
Mr Touadera, a mild-mannered former maths professor, is seen as an independent outsider, despite working under Mr Bozizé for four years until the Séléka takeover in 2013, says Mr Fielding.
" Roosevelt returned the volley charging that the mild-mannered Wilson was "a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic pre-possessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
A charismatic minimalist from the start, he has lately — in the haunting "All is Lost" and the mild-mannered "Our Souls at Night" — offered a series of master classes in understatement.
A charismatic minimalist from the start, he has lately — in the haunting 'All is Lost' and the mild-mannered 'Our Souls at Night' — offered a series of master classes in understatement.
He is known as affable, mild-mannered, even a little shy, and if this race were purely a choice between him and Mr. Modi, opinion polls show he would be trounced.
In a twenty-three-year career as a mild-mannered and well-liked family doctor, he injected at least two hundred and fifteen of his patients with lethal doses of opiates.
Alongside Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper and Susan Strasberg, Mr. Fonda starred as a mild-mannered television commercial director who uses LSD for the first time and makes the most of it.
As for flavor, you're not getting a Champagne, of course, but a little yeastiness gives the otherwise fruity and mild-mannered wine a little something extra in the way of body.
Whatever the reason, such was the appeal of this adventure that Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth), a mild-mannered engineer and indifferent sailor, was willing to risk everything to take to sea.
Alongside Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper and Susan Strasberg, Mr. Fonda starred as a mild-mannered television commercial director who uses LSD for the first time and makes the most of it.
The new cheese, called Lady Prue, is aged six months and clothbound, for a pale, mild-mannered and buttery slab, with a light, herbaceous tang and a sweet hint of caramel.
But in the past week, the mild-mannered official has been caught up in a political storm that has threatened to undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government months before a general election.
The typically mild-mannered Meadows could be seen repeating 'it doesn't matter' as Ryan spoke to him, and he walked away from Ryan at one point only to return and continue arguing.
Instead Matteo Renzi, the prime minister, resigned (though he is plotting his return) and Paolo Gentiloni, the mild-mannered foreign minister, glided into place at the head of a largely unchanged cabinet.
One thing we've learned from the Superman myth is that the Man of Steel has a mild-mannered alter ego, Clark Kent, who few suspect has any connection to that heroic crusader.
In Riley Stearns' new movie The Art of Self-Defense, a lonely, mild-mannered office drone has an experience that forces him to reevaluate his lowly place in a supposedly civilized society.
Mr McConnell backed Mr Strange, a mild-mannered ex-lobbyist who served as Alabama's attorney-general until Robert Bentley, then governor, gave him an interim appointment to Mr Sessions's seat in February.
The most important official, apart from the president himself, will be Liu He, a mild-mannered policymaker who has risen from relative obscurity to become Mr Xi's trusted adviser on the economy.
Jim Henson's mild-mannered muppet is nearly as versatile a meme as Spongebob, whether he's sipping Liptons and calling you on your bullshit, or giving voice to the evil in your head.
And last week, when Shaun Livingston, an otherwise mild-mannered point guard, was ejected from Game 4 against the Trail Blazers for screaming at an official, Green sounded like a doting parent.
While Mr. Finkelpearl was a mild-mannered leader who eschewed the back-channeling, brass-knuckled negotiating of municipal politics, Mr. Casals is widely described as an activist, comfortable stepping into the fray.
"People who are Catalans are very Catalan here," said Mr. Colom, a mild-mannered father of two, as he steered his tractor onto a dirt-covered square already full of giant machines.
In them the laws of our familiar world are broken: Mild-mannered students become godlike creatures, mutants walk among us and untold power is, in an instant, granted to the most downtrodden.
Tory lawmakers narrowed the choice today to Boris Johnson, the bombastic longtime Brexit advocate, and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, a mild-mannered ex-businessman who initially opposed Brexit, but now supports it.
Into this nest of mild-mannered entitlement — most of the action takes place in Jules and Pam's sleek Brooklyn apartment — comes Henry, a transgender man whom Ezra knew in childhood as Helen.
A folk musician who accompanies himself on guitar while singing his verbose streams of consciousness, Mr. Phillips's stage alter ego is a mild-mannered Everyman whose nice-guy persona invites cruel heckling.
Trump told Mason, who has a reputation as a generally mild-mannered correspondent and was recently president of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), not to be "rude" in a scolding tone.
But some members privately raised concerns about whether the mild-mannered congresswoman had the fighting instinct necessary to chair a committee that will be in the national spotlight in the coming months.
"When the dog was here at BARC, where he lived with us for just under a month before he was adopted, he was mild mannered and very well behaved," the statement said.
The contentious affair threatens to put Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, under political pressure from all sides, a role court watchers say the mild-mannered jurist will assume with great reluctance.
A lot of people just see me as I am now, like, the mild mannered light-skinned dude from Atlanta, but I didn't have any access to do anything that I wanted.
"After I count to 10, I'll be a mild-mannered employee," Retsuko tells herself, and we see her force her emotions down once again, swallowing her rage to get through another day.
In Metropolis, Superman (who goes around town as mild-mannered Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent) is now dating Lois Lane (Amy Adams), but he recognizes that some on Earth distrust his altruistic motives.
But if it can't stop the trolls from blatantly abusing the rest of the community or projecting hate, it will have failed society and more mild-mannered users will move to cleaner pastures.
Unfortunately, I'd wager that the Elvis impersonator is no longer with us, but his mild-mannered pisstaking in the face of low-level juvenile delinquency will live on forever in this blog post.
Six months ago, during Virginia's gubernatorial Democratic primary, many—myself very much included—worried that Northam, the state's mild-mannered, moderate lieutenant governor, was out of step in a fevered post-Trump climate.
The mild-mannered young Crusoe (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal) is marooned on an island inhabited by a collaborative bunch of talking animals, including a pangolin, a tapir, a chameleon and a billy goat.
Then again, the N.F.L. already staged its own smackdown between Goodell and Robert Kraft, the Patriots' owner, whose mild-mannered demeanor went out the window a week before the Super Bowl last year.
The consistent message of his campaign was an appeal—Espy is too mild-mannered to call it a "challenge"—to white voters to opt, at long last, for sanity and a brighter future.
WASHINGTON — Mild-mannered, lawyerly and with a genius for trivia, Richard Cordray is not the sort of guy you picture at the center of Washington's bitter partisan wars over regulation and consumer safeguards.
Serafinowiczalso played a character in Dark Souls II, Mild-Mannered Pate, and that's him providing the grunts as your character dodges many swords, flaming arrows, and man-eating chests in the 2014 title.
Our choice is between a mild-mannered, business-friendly centrist and a Tea Party Republican who has voted with the president 91 percent of the time, who favors the repeal of Roe v.
On the left stands Democrat Doug Jones, a mild-mannered former U.S. attorney, who has a real chance of winning a state that Donald Trump won by 28 points just 13 months ago.
Nearby, in a Trump+20193 county, volunteers knocked on 15,700 doors in an effort to replace the state legislature's most notorious homophobe with a mild-mannered local business leader married to his husband.
Mr. Mnuchin, a mild-mannered former Goldman Sachs banker, attempted to move on from the flurry of controversies he faced this summer, trying to stay focused on crafting the Trump administration's tax policy.
The normally mild-mannered Oscar de la Hoya left the ring swearing in every direction and, though there were calls for a rematch, this was the only occasion these two fought each other.
The Rockets led by as many as 11 in a first half that saw the Celtics guilty of 19 personal and three technical fouls, one of them to the normally mild-mannered Stevens.
Once, when Goldwater left a Dallas hotel by car ahead of schedule without the regular retinue of reporters, Mr. Gold frantically sought out his mild-mannered boss, Paul F. Wagner, to inform him.
Many aides in the West Wing described themselves as shocked at the allegations, which they said are not in character with the mild-mannered lawyer they have worked alongside over the past year.
Mr. Trump has certainly been aggressive if not very policy-oriented, and he has proved that you can run an atavistic, substance-free campaign and still win — even in the mild-mannered Midwest.
While Cohn and Mnuchin differ stylistically — Cohn is brash and physically imposing while Mnuchin is mild-mannered — sources who've been meeting with them say they share the same philosophy: Go big or go home.
What I don't understand is why there is that gap and how he can turn from a mild-mannered taxi driver taking young vulnerable women home, and on other occasions turn into a killer.
Cipollone, a former corporate lawyer and law clerk, is known for his mild-mannered demeanor and has mostly kept a low profile since assuming the position of White House counsel in October of 2018.
This was part of a generally dull concert by the festival orchestra under the direction of Matthew Halls that included a dispirited Mendelssohn Overture and a mild-mannered rendition of Beethoven's Symphony No. 8.
A mild-mannered California native who rarely allowed himself to be quoted in the media, Hofeller may be more responsible for the Republican majority in Congress than any other single person in modern politics.
And Doug Funnie, the show's main character, was a mild-mannered 11-year-old navigating through this world in a fictional town called Bluffington and documented each day's happenings in his journal before bed.
PEBBLE BEACH, CA. (Reuters) - Mild-mannered Louis Oosthuizen is not prone to getting too excited on the golf course, but he made an exception for an early eagle at the U.S. Open on Thursday.
And then there is Republican Roy Moore, the not-so-mild-mannered former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who is accused of child molestation and trying to date teenagers half his age.
" Conte, a law professor with no political affiliation, added: "The language of this government will be mild-mannered because we understand that our actions will not be judged by the arrogance of our words.
Mr. Sessions is in many ways Mr. Trump's antithesis: reedy-voiced, diminutive and mild-mannered, a devout Methodist and an Eagle Scout who will soon celebrate a golden wedding anniversary with his college sweetheart.
The mild-mannered world number 20 was not too keen to get involved in the hype over United States player Patrick Reed's widely-condemned rule violation at the Hero World Challenge over the weekend.
The image above began its now-wild internet life as a mild-mannered stock photo, one of a series by photographer Antonio Guillem that's available to license through the popular stock photo website Shutterstock.
According to Science Daily, however, the researchers note that the age discrepancy could be because women have a different subtype of ADHD which results in more mild-mannered behavior than seen in boys with ADHD.
She just wants to know what led a mild-mannered dad like Mr. Raymond to amass enough explosives to be labeled a terrorist and later commit suicide before a murderous ninja could kill him herself.
Kennedy left an indelible mark on American society in his three decades as a mild-mannered and professorial justice on the Supreme Court, in areas as varied as abortion, the death penalty and political spending.
With the deal now on shaky ground after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out, the 20033-year-old mild-mannered cleric faces the prospect of serving out his second term as a lame duck leader.
Terezakis, who's been in the business of effects since 1987, is a friendly, mild-mannered Canadian — not exactly the sort of person you'd suspect would be behind some of The X-Files' most ghastly creatures.
Yet the Sunday result revealed a country more evenly divided between the two candidates, with a slight advantage for Mr. Kuczynski, a mild-mannered former World Bank official who appealed to voters as a technocrat.
Here was sweet, congenial, insightful Steve Kerr—son of career diplomat, popular around the league, a mild-mannered California dude known for always saying and doing the right thing—losing control, and his temper, too.
It's as though this hapless, mild-mannered man, who had spent his life pushed to and fro by his domineering military friends, had had enough of constantly being at the beck and call of others.
"Stuber," which begins its international roll-out on Wednesday, revolves around a mild-mannered Uber driver who picks up a Los Angeles detective who turns out to be on the trail of a brutal killer.
More mild-mannered than Mr. Dimonda, Mr. Statella came to America from Italy the same year, 1961, and also started working in barbershops as a boy in impoverished postwar Southern Italy (Sicily in his case).
Before "Jimbo," tennis stars had been mild-mannered crooners such as Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe and Stan Smith, who with their wood rackets and white clothes personified the sport's longstanding culture of civility.
In the hands of Bmuet(te), deconstruction techniques resulted in a mild-mannered collection that, for all its "Hunger Games" references and evident skill (that trouser-legged coat was pretty cool), felt somehow anatomically deficient.
The tyrannical auteur of the zombie movie (Takayuki Hamatsu) is revealed to be a mild-mannered hack — his motto is "fast, cheap, but average" — who channels years of frustration into one glorious explosion of creativity.
All this built upon the now days-long controversy engulfing Northam's administration after the mild-mannered Democrat admitted -- and later denied -- that he was in a racist photo that appeared in his medical school yearbook.
As such, the popular image of the survivalist is changing, from wild-eyed cave dweller in camouflage fatigues, hoarding canned goods, to the mild-mannered executive or lawyer or insurance salesman who lives next door.
That's a far cry from the mild-mannered student whom friends in Windsor, Ontario, recalled as possessing "no leadership qualities" and who was deemed "most likely to become a scholar" in his high school yearbook.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Olaf Scholz, the mild-mannered, pragmatic mayor of Hamburg who could become Germany's next finance minister, had a baptism of fire last summer during violent riots surrounding the G20 summit in his city.
The personal attack by Alain Juppe on frontrunner Francois Fillon, both known until now as mild-mannered former prime ministers, heralded a hard-fought final week of campaigning before the primary's runoff voting round on Sunday.
More recently, Lee has kept up Samsung's relationships with the likes of Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Alphabet CEO Larry Page, and he's generally considered to be a mild-mannered, friendly character.
The experience of Mr Mistry's last weeks, during which the mild-mannered Indian executive turned into something like an American-style corporate raider, might just be enough to persuade him to let the new chairman lead.
For five seasons, Vince Gilligan's "Breaking Bad" kept fans on the edges of their seats with the story of how Walter White (Bryan Cranston) went from a mild-mannered chemistry teacher to a vindictive drug lord.
Mr Hoult plays him with pained sensitivity, but he is so mild-mannered that his most reckless act of rebellion is to look on quietly as Edith throws a sugar cube onto a nearby lady's hat.
Donald Trump's first speech as the presumptive GOP nominee was conciliatory, mild-mannered, and as full of half-truths and unverifiable bluster as everything else he's said over the course of this increasingly weird primary campaign.
The normally mild-mannered Carson has been on the warpath against Cruz, ripping the Iowa caucus night claims from the Cruz campaign that Carson would be dropping out and that his backers should back Cruz instead.
For an hour and a half on Tuesday night, the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee parried with Democrat Tim Kaine as if Trump were as mild mannered as Mitt Romney and as doctrinaire as Paul Ryan.
By Monday, he was back on a set, this time in a different century, surrounded by new people and ready to take on a character that couldn't be more different from mild-mannered footman Mr. Molesley.
He's big, he's green, he's beefy as heck, but at the core of the strongest Avenger is a mild-mannered super genius who has been canonically incapable of having an orgasm for at least a decade.
All of these normal, mild-mannered people getting ready for a nice, old-fashioned Holocaust tour and me, a cynical asshole here to write about the whole spectacle and hopefully capture the ridiculousness of it all.
The poinsettia is named for Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first American ambassador to Mexico (and mild-mannered botanist), who observed the shrub in the early 1800s and shipped a few north to his South Carolina greenhouses.
The entry of the mild-mannered Mr. Iger and his squeaky-clean company into the arena shows how President Trump has a way of drawing people and corporations once considered apolitical into the red-hot center.
For months he lagged in opinion polls behind Alain Juppe, a mild-mannered, more centrist former prime minister who is his main rival for the November primaries that will choose a conservative candidate for the election.
The more compelling story lines belong to Charlie Creed-Miles as George, a mild-mannered cabdriver who seems a magnet for bad luck, and Franz Drameh as Kingsley, a small-time drug dealer with literary aspirations.
Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, is a mild-mannered chemistry teacher who finds himself making meth in the Albuquerque drug scene in order to make money to support his family following his terminal cancer diagnosis.
" In it, he argued that Judge Gorsuch "may be all mild-mannered and cuddly, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't in a heartbeat deny your very existence under the Constitution if you happen to be queer.
Meade, a mild-mannered technocrat with Cabinet positions in multiple PRI administrations, had struggled in vain to address the issue of corruption, which Lopez Obrador made the central issue of a campaign that resonated strongly with Mexicans.
They eventually run into and team up with mild-mannered Mitch, who's trying to survive in the gig economy and Van, a dudebro who's become a viral star by live-streaming his hunts on the Huntr app.
The offer is a huge statement of intent from the mild-mannered media mogul Roberts, 58, who took over as head of the cable and entertainment conglomerate from his father, Ralph, who founded the company in 1963.
Hollywood loves to tip conventions on their head: The picture-perfect married travel agents who are Russian spies; the suburban mom who becomes a drug dealer; the mild-mannered police tech who doubles as a serial killer.
Jeb Bush as "low energy," and while the dig seems very mild compared to other nicknames Trump had for his opponents like "Crooked Hillary" and "Lyin' Ted," the insult stuck to the mild-mannered Bush like glue.
Looking youthful in a navy blue windbreaker and running shoes, the mild-mannered Mr. Ruscha — who was ranked among the 10 most expensive living American artists by Artnet last year — discussed his career in carefully chosen words.
His own education in governing began in 2011 with a slight, when the military backed U Thein Sein, a mild-mannered bureaucrat with little battlefield experience, to become president, rather than the openly ambitious Mr. Shwe Mann.
Rouhani, long known as a cautious and mild-mannered establishment insider, reinvented himself as a bold champion of reform during the election campaign, which culminated on Friday in victory with more than 57 percent of the vote.
Mike Conaway -- a mild-mannered Republican who used to be friendly with Chairman Adam Schiff -- berated him as the first impeachment hearing closed because Schiff didn't want to entertain debate over issuing a subpoena to the whistleblower.
Sport is a statistics-obsessed neat freak who makes the most outlandish production through meticulous tinkering and then there's Hak, a mild-mannered New England art student who only gave rapping a go because Wiki persuaded him to.
The other threat is that Trump's belligerence will encourage open revolt in Mexico—that, if the economy collapses, the mild-mannered protesters I saw on Reforma Avenue will give way to a new generation of post-Zapatista revolutionaries.
The families were chatting politely over coffee when Mr. Pence, a mild-mannered Midwesterner, delivered an uncharacteristically impassioned monologue, according to people with direct knowledge of his remarks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the meeting.
She had appeared on two episodes of the original "Twilight Zone" series as well, as a genie with a mild-mannered new master and as a glamorous single woman who unwittingly drinks an all-too-effective love potion.
Where He Stands: Kasich has sought to appeal to moderates throughout the GOP nominating contest, positioning himself as a mild-mannered and statesmanly pragmatist in a race that's been marked by heated rhetoric and shifts to the right.
The bond market is the larger, mild-mannered cousin of the more theatrical stock market, and bonds don't move as sharply — the S&P 500 was up 4.6 percent on Monday, after skidding over 11 percent last week.
In Missouri, home to one of the nation's most competitive Senate races, Mr. Trump swooped in this month to headline a fund-raiser for Josh Hawley, the mild-mannered state attorney general challenging Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat.
SAN DIEGO — In what may be the first of several moves by the Mets to look to the future, the team dealt first baseman Lucas Duda, their mild-mannered power hitter, to the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday.
It seems diabolical of the mild-mannered student, but let's not forget that she also dumped a Pop's milkshake on Veronica (Camila Mendes), and seemed to be cutting out letters for those threatening letters the production received before showtime.
Normally known as a mild-mannered pragmatist rather than a gung-ho reformer, Rouhani has tried to fire up the pro-reform camp with speeches that break taboos by making open references to human rights abuse by the authorities.
Unlike Trump, the mild-mannered, Midwestern governor is hardly a natural attack dog, and the former radio show host appears far more comfortable sitting at a Sunday show roundtable than revving up a large crowd at a campaign rally.
Just over a year ago, Meadows, a mild-mannered second term lawmaker who was worried Boehner wasn't taking a hard line in spending negotiations with the White House, threatened to force a no-confidence vote that might have succeeded.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Known for years as a mild-mannered cleric, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has reinvented himself as a rabble-rousing political street fighter to shore up his chances in an unexpectedly tight race against a united conservative bloc.
Backed by establishment figures and pressure from the markets, the three mild-mannered men had tamed the anti-EU populists within the ruling League and 5-Star Movement, and had forced them to abandon their damaging fight with Brussels.
Women often told Ms. Neill that they had been inspired to go into journalism by seeing her character work as an equal alongside newspapermen, but Ms. Neill saw her Lois as mild-mannered, a reflection of the prefeminist 1950s.
" McElroy, a mild-mannered white man in his 217s with a genteel lilt to his speech, told me that "the ultimate success" for a Chapter 2130 filing is "to pay it out, get a discharge, get out of debt.
The mild-mannered Ravic, an Alice Cooper fan, has a heavy-metal look that jars with the surroundings: long black hair, rings on eight fingers, a black leather jacket, and black cowboy boots studded with nails and tiny skulls.
Trump just picked a fight with our closest NATO allies, including Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who Trump's team said "stabbed us in the back" after Trudeau's mild-mannered defense of his own country's trade policy on dairy imports.
Roger Stone, the Trump adviser and former Nixon aide, who specializes in political provocation, tweeted that Kaine's performance revealed the mild-mannered senator to be an "obnoxious asshole," a declaration that, given the circumstances, was received as high praise.
After all, the descriptions are odd: "mild-mannered, very warm and sincere" sounds like an alien's approximation of a real human being and show how the very structure of the story form can distort and skew the characters being depicted.
It reminds me, to an extent, of a movie written by my father, Rafael Yglesias, Fearless, in which a mild-mannered architect survives a deadly plane crash and ends up convinced that he's invincible rather than the beneficiary of good luck.
In the case of The Boys, the cracks come in the form of two people: mild-mannered tech salesperson Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid) and Starlight, aka Annie January (Erin Moriarty), the newest member of Vought's premiere superhero squad, The Seven.
Salvini is often accused by critics of being a bully or even a "fascist," but he himself was pummeled in parliament on Tuesday by his mild-mannered prime minister, who blamed him for putting personal ambition ahead of the country.
Salvini is often accused by critics of being a bully or even a "fascist," but he himself was pummelled in parliament on Tuesday by his mild-mannered prime minister, who blamed him for putting personal ambition ahead of the country.
At the starting gate: Clinton leads Trump by double-digits Moreover, as Clinton has struggled to excite the Democratic base, it's far from clear that Kaine -- a mild-mannered and affable 58-year-old -- would be able to do just that.
In his heyday, unlike those mild-mannered contemporary operatives, he was suspected of plotting murder, and accused by the news media of beating his wife, who died in a car crash in Palm Springs just before a planned divorce filing.
Gugu went to support groups as well, and we noticed that the person running the group was so extremely mild-mannered and kind of amazing, and I thought Steve would be perfect to bring that energy to the group sessions.
Image: NetflixDuring Episode 2, which debunks alternative medicine, Nye and science communicator Cara Santa Maria repeatedly gang up on another guest, the mild-mannered filmmaker Donald Schultz, when he suggests that some non-Western medicine practices might not be entirely bogus.
As congressional Republicans across the country grapple with the Trump effect on their home-state campaigns, the mild-mannered Portman, 60, may be pointing the way forward in his race, the nation's most expensive Senate contest so far this year.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anthony Kennedy left an indelible mark on American society in his three decades as a mild-mannered and professorial justice on the U.S. Supreme Court in areas as varied as gay rights, abortion, the death penalty and political spending.
Mr. Portman, a mild-mannered Washington insider who defied his party by embracing same-sex marriage in 2013 after learning that one of his sons was gay, sighed when asked if Mr. Trump had the right temperament to be president.
In the equally haunting "The Look of Silence," the director Joshua Oppenheimer follows a mild-mannered optometrist as he confronts his brother's killers from that era, some of whom are still in power today while others have become his patients.
I've had conversations with very polite and mild-mannered people who have followed the band for longer than I have, and I've spoken with 50-something-year-old first-timers who are very excited to hear a particular song or two.
The pedestrian mall in the middle of this post-industrial college town, where there are one-sixth as many orange Volunteers as ordinary citizens, is a polite mix of chain restaurants and revamped Dixieland cuisine, mild-mannered bars and quaint boutiques.
Hadfield said what made Rangers teams of that era unique was the players' closeness, exemplified by the mild-mannered yet intense Ratelle, whose 109 points in 1971-113 are second-most in franchise history (behind Jaromir Jagr's 123 in 2005-06).
Even more original and entertaining were the story lines involving the middle schoolers Kevin (Alex Hibbert), Papa (Shamon Brown Jr.) and Maisha (Genesis Denise Hale), whose hilariously passive-aggressive pursuit of the mild-mannered Kevin was the show's single best idea.
This summer, however, almost 150 years after Darwin published his sexual selection theory to mixed reception, Richard Prum, a mild-mannered ornithologist and museum curator from Yale, has published a book intended to win Darwin's sex theory a more climactic victory.
Nikos Konstandaras ATHENS — Many Greeks were surprised when a mild-mannered former prime minister who tried to use unity and consensus to lead the country out of an economic and political impasse was seriously injured by a parcel bomb last month.
In the speech, Bennet, a mild-mannered lawmaker who speaks with an air of pragmatic optimism, passionately talks about the government shutdown and raises his voice as he accuses Cruz of "crocodile tears" for lamenting a tactic he once used himself.
Flowers were piled knee-deep at the gates of the royal palaces; grown men wept openly in the streets; mild-mannered citizens inveighed against the usually blameless queen for what they believed was an inadequate response to a national crisis.
That same month, he was one of about 30 House Republicans who interrupted the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment investigation by storming the committee's secure offices; normally mild-mannered, he reportedly yelled in the face of Adam Schiff, the committee's chairman.
Alan Colmes, who for 12 years was a mild-mannered and moderately liberal sparring partner to the conservative firebrand Sean Hannity in Fox News Channel's most conspicuous effort to fulfill its "fair and balanced" credo, died on Thursday in Manhattan.
"I worry for the institution," said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, who broke with her colleagues last year in calling for a hearing and a vote on Judge Merrick B. Garland, President Barack Obama's own plainly qualified, mild-mannered nominee.
The bitter yearlong campaign for the presidency pitted Norbert Hofer, a leader of the far-right Freedom Party, founded in the 1950s by former Nazis, against a mild-mannered 72-year-old former Green Party leader, Alexander Van der Bellen.
The theme song alone should get you pretty pumped up to watch: One Punch Man, based on the manga of the same name, centers around Saitama, a mild-mannered man who decides one day that he wants to become a hero for fun.
The competition is stiff, but the front-runner appears to be Ajit Pai, the mild-mannered 44-year-old chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, who has recently provoked the Twitter ire of famous faces like Cher, Alyssa Milano, and John Oliver.
After their mother died in a car crash, they were rescued and raised by a nearby commune of mild-mannered, vaguely dazed-looking people who make a living by brewing and selling beer and performing other odd jobs for the nearby community.
He is a mild-mannered Wisconsinite unrelated to the president who rose through Republican party ranks and urged Mr Trump to drop out of the presidential race after a tape surfaced in which the then-candidate boasted that he grabbed women's genitals.
The group's unofficial leader, Muzammil—a mild-mannered 23-year-old from Kashmir with a narrow, angular face and a sharp hook of a nose—said that it wasn't hard for him to find someone to help him organize passage to Brazil.
The White House had invited red state Democratic senators to the party -- twisting the knife since Trump's selection of the mild-mannered Kavanaugh may prove tough to oppose for those up for re-election in states where Trump won big in 2016.
By the time Vieira was tossed during the water break at the 30th minute, the usually mild-mannered coach had already gone to war with a few Red Bulls fans behind his bench, telling them to "shut up" while using an expletive.
For all the points that the heretofore mild-mannered Ingram won with teammates for standing up for himself and his teammates, playing short-handed for the rest of the month isn't going to help the new Lakers as they try to find themselves.
Boasting of his skill at winning concessions from Senator Mitch McConnell, the immovable Republican majority leader, Mr. Biden suddenly found himself under fire from Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, a mild-mannered moderate who depicted Mr. Biden's deal making as a fiasco.
As the Reverend John Hale, the young minister sent to cast the devil out of Salem, Mr. Strutzenberger is hypnotic in his smoldering mix of tension and craftiness; a deceptively mild-mannered outsider whose convictions lead him first to zealotry and then remorse.
The race between Mr. Kobach, also known nationally for dire warnings about illegal immigration, and Mr. Colyer, a comparatively mild-mannered plastic surgeon who has been governor less than seven months, had attracted national interest long before the razor-thin vote total.
Mr. Sallis's odyssey as Wallace, a mild-mannered inventor who lives in a house full of contraptions with his intelligent and expressive dog assistant, Gromit, began in 1983 when Nick Park asked him to read for the role in a student film.
Hornacek remained calm after his Knicks fell behind by 22 points not quite midway through the second quarter of their game against the Phoenix Suns; he kept his cool when his mild-mannered rookie, Kristaps Porzingis, momentarily lost his in the third.
But while few modern religions seem to blend pragmatism and prophecy quite so seamlessly, the Mormon church's often mild-mannered and institutionally minded presidents rarely match the biblical image of prophets as wild-haired social critics who feed on locusts and honey.
The Chrismans say they don't have many friends, that their lifestyle sets them apart from the community around them; as a couple, they seem introverted and self-contained, mild-mannered people made more cautious by the attention they get whenever they go outside.
But the Constitution is silent about the trial's actual mechanics, raising questions about whether the mild-mannered, 28500-year old jurist will play a mostly ceremonial role overseeing the trial or be dragged into the political fight and forced to make consequential decisions.
The Walking Dead returned Sunday night with the mid-season premiere of Season 9, picking up where we left off in November, with mild-mannered Negan finding his jail cell unlocked and the Whisperers — humans wearing zombie skins — making themselves a known threat.
Instead, I did the next best thing and hopped a couple of United flights to Wyoming for a seven-hour Verbal Judo class, which I completed alongside 20 mild-mannered court clerks from around the state and one soft-spoken security officer.
But the real breakout star of Good Girls Revolt is Erin Darke as Cindy, a seemingly mild-mannered captions editor whose miserable marriage ends up empowering her to be so much bolder outside the confines of her cold apartment than she ever could've imagined.
Instead, the finalists are Donald Trump, a joke candidate turned dominant front-runner; Ted Cruz, the "most hated man in the Senate"; and John Kasich, a mild-mannered Midwestern governor who looked doomed (and probably still is) to a Jon Huntsman-style also-ran finish.
It's true that Ossoff hasn't distinguished himself as a populist firebrand or leftist ideologue, but rather as a "mild-mannered, centrist candidate," in the words of Ed Kilgore, a New York magazine columnist and former policy director for the now-defunct centrist Democratic Leadership Council.
Kirkman, mild-mannered but firm, evenhanded but paternalistic to the women and children in his life, is a perfect role for Mr. Sutherland, and tuning in to see him save the country each week may be one of the new TV season's prime guilty pleasures.
ISTANBUL — Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says that a mild-mannered Muslim cleric living in self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania was pulling the strings of a coup attempt last week that almost succeeded in taking over the state, and killing Mr. Erdogan himself.
Mike Riley watched his Oregon State teams drop seven straight "Civil War" games to Oregon before he bolted for Nebraska in December of 2014, so it should come as no surprise if the usually mild-mannered coach is a bit more amped up this week.
An accident jettisons an iron rod through the left frontal lobe of a mildmannered railroad foreman named Phineas Gage, transforming him into a full-bore hellion, thus allowing researchers to begin deducing the functions of those oversized saddlebags behind our forehead and eyes.
Needless to say, the pervasiveness of hardcore drinking in America is a source of concern for public health researchers who have been trying to shed light on the mechanism through which a mild-mannered individual can morph into a hot mess in mere hours.
But when Yoko Shimomura—the one actually responsible for composing all the music we were there to hear that night—finally emerged onstage, she appeared as mild-mannered and modest as a high school piano teacher, even as fans welcomed her with rapturous applause.
According to the rumor mill, the mild-mannered Mr. Hunt was the candidate that Mr. Johnson most wanted to face in the runoff, and all day Thursday there was speculation in Parliament of tactical voting by his supporters to eliminate Michael Gove, the environment secretary.
But Fiver is right — the culprit is humans, who gas and excavate the colony to make way for a housing development — and the mild-mannered Hazel leads a small group on a postapocalyptic exodus to a distant hill, the promised land Fiver has envisioned.
The contenders so far include two of Mr. Trump's closest allies from the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, a Georgian well-liked by top House leaders and a mild-mannered elder statesman who played a key role in the last presidential impeachment two decades ago.
The messages Mr. Encarnación received were identical to a series of texts sent to Alejandro Calvillo, a mild-mannered activist and founder of El Poder del Consumidor, yet another Mexico City organization that has been at the forefront of battling childhood obesity in the country.
Speaking at the Quirinal Palace on Monday night after a third, and apparently final, round of fruitless consultations with party leaders, the mild-mannered Mr. Mattarella seemed a bit vexed as he called the situation "anomalous" and admonished the politicians for their lack of progress.
The hypocrisy and injustice become all-consuming, and our mild-mannered reverend turns into something between a hero and a zealot, a clergy robe–wearing Travis Bickle for our time (makes sense, since the writer and director here is Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader).
Pudgy and mild-mannered, he is eager to please, quick to embrace, and, when he is offended or patronized—something I saw happen more than once in the halls and offices of the Knesset—he recedes, wincing slightly, as if experiencing an unpleasant digestive event.
After fatalistically choking out middleweights before turning into a mediocre kickboxer, Maia has come full circle at 170 pounds: he's the mild-mannered, sound-bite-free embodiment of BJJ orthodoxy, where grappling is the solution to every problem in the street or in the cage.
But there are very good reasons the episode paints the seemingly mild-mannered genius programmer Bob (Jesse Plemons) as the very worst sort of human being, who literally desires to possess the people in his office, but especially his cute new coworker, Nanette (Cristin Milioti).
Buy it here >>The bone-chilling story of how Sidney Gottlieb — a club-footed, mild-mannered, peace-loving chemist who lived like a hippie long before the term was coined — became the fulcrum of the United States' panicked post-WWII bid for supremacy in germ warfare.
Using a playlist that moves from Adele to Pink to Royksopp and Robyn, Kelsea and her mild-mannered co-instructor, MJ (Amy Staats), lead a group that, as far as we can see, consists of two students — both of them audience members, onstage in workout clothes.
That trend is both reflected and powered by the advocacy of people like Rick Steves, the mild-mannered travel writer and host of "Rick Steves' Europe," who campaigned for legalization in his home state of Washington in 2012 and now travels the country doing the same thing.
A mild-mannered academic who inherited his father's Chicagoland district, Lipinski was perhaps the most conservative Democrat in a safe seat — a personal and political opponent of abortion rights, a critic (for a while) of same-sex marriage, and an early opponent the Affordable Care Act.
Coogler played football in high school, and between his fitness and his humble listening poses — leaning forward, elbows propped on knees — he reminds me of what might happen if a mild-mannered athlete accidentally discovered a radioactive movie camera and was gifted with remarkable artistic vision.
PARIS — The usually mild-mannered president of France pointedly reproached President Trump on Saturday after Mr. Trump commented on the dangers of terrorism in Paris, reminding the American leader of a cardinal rule in diplomacy: If you want to keep your friends, don't criticize them in public.
The admonition was aimed at Stephen K. Bannon, the tempestuous chief strategist, and Reince Priebus, the mild-mannered chief of staff, over a series of dust-ups with Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, and the top economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn.
As author of "The Wind in the Willows," Grahame was the creator of the fictional Mole, a mild-mannered character beloved by children everywhere for messing about in boats, bumbling dimly into the Wild Wood and otherwise misadventuring with Ratty, Badger and Mr. Toad of Toad Hall.
Yet Flake's sharp personal criticisms of Trump, his sponsorship of bipartisan immigration reform measures, and his relatively mild-mannered rhetoric and demeanor — which contrast dramatically with the perpetual expressions of outrage characteristic of ideologically aligned media — put him out of step with the current Republican zeitgeist.
When Hank says the line, "I don't know who you are, I don't even know who I'm talking to," he's coming to the realization that Walt, who Hank only knew as his mild mannered brother-in-law, is in fact a very powerful leader of a methamphetamine operation.
Harriet is such an interesting protagonist because she presents as very meek and mild-mannered, so for the first few chapters I kept expecting someone wilder like Perdita to take hold of the narrative, but instead Harriet just held on fast and kept revealing these hidden reserves of strength.
Jacobs—who seems pretty mild-mannered and sweet for a guy who once said he wanted to "exorcise his humanity"—also said he wants to roll back the government's influence on how Knox County is run, handing control over to the community leaders who live in the area.
With the help of a mild-mannered Bolshevik named Lev Kamenev, Stalin quickly wrested control of the Party mouthpiece, Pravda , from the younger, less experienced Vyacheslav Molotov, and proceeded to advance a moderate agenda: to remain in the war and even to seek rapprochement with the other socialist parties.
These include the mild-mannered Tcherny (André Benjamin), who misses his family back on Earth; young women named Boyse (Mia Goth), Mink (Claire Tran), and Nansen (Agata Buzek), each of them clearly troubled; Ettore (Ewan Mitchell), a pugnacious youth, best avoided; and the onboard medic, Dr. Dibs ( Juliette Binoche ).
Unlike any event featuring Donald Trump, who is often incapable of controlling what come out of his mouth, Tuesday's vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, between Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Indiana Governor Mike Pence—two controlled, mild-mannered politicians—promises to be a staid affair.
And they had been digesting the incongruous image of Mr. Trump courting a North Korean dictator only hours after he had called their famously mild-mannered leader "very dishonest and weak" and a top Trump trade adviser had said "there's a special place in hell" for Mr. Trudeau.
Lou Barletta, a congressman from Luzerne County, who made a reputation on unflinching opposition to illegal immigrants and became an early supporter of Mr. Trump, won the Republican nomination to challenge Senator Bob Casey Jr., a mild-mannered politician who has become a relentless critic of Mr. Trump.
Characterizations don't so much develop as abruptly appear — like when mild-mannered weakling Jonah suddenly morphs into a code-reading, intel-gathering, stone-cold badass prodigy before our eyes or when characters start having moving heart-to-hearts that aren't moving at all because we've barely even met them.
But it also speaks to the passions that Mr. Macron, a seemingly mild-mannered centrist, provokes in large parts of the French electorate, far left and far right, who share a view of the 39-year-old former investment banker as a fire-breathing incarnation of evil market culture.
By the time J. Dennis Hastert, a mild-mannered Republican, was chosen as speaker in early 1999, he was more interested in installing a new leadership team and policy agenda that could broaden the party's appeal than seeing through an impeachment case that Republicans saw as politically toxic.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of Manhattan, an ordinarily thoughtful and mild-mannered jurist, has just plain had it with the government, which he accused of repeatedly attempting "to halt the orderly progress of this litigation" most recently with tactics that "seem to cross" the line of sanctionable conduct.
In the two-and-a-half-minute mash-up video, titled Tom Clancy's Jim Ryan, Krasinski's paper slinger is pulled out of his mild-mannered Pennsylvanian life and dropped in the middle of a battle of wits when a new terrorist arises that only he can stop: Dwight K. Schrute.
Getting caught in a tech support loop — waiting on hold, interacting with automated systems, talking to people reading from unhelpful scripts and then finding yourself on hold yet again — is a peculiar kind of aggravation that mental health experts say can provoke rage in even the most mild-mannered person.
If Phillips wanted to stick with Batman villains, there's easily room for a Ra's al Ghul origin story in the style of Scorsese's spiritual movies like Silence, or some zany After Hours romp through nighttime Gotham that slowly descends into chaos and drives mild-mannered Edward Nygma into becoming the Riddler.
Standing alongside a handful of other Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hatch, a typically mild-mannered member of the chamber, called the partisan efforts "dumbass" on Thursday as he begged members to come together in what has become one of the most divisive Supreme Court nominations in recent memory.
"Samir is a mild-mannered soul who was driven to hunger strike by sheer desperation, and he was gratified to know that his suffering forced the world to remember the immorality of Guantanamo," said Cori Crider, a lawyer for the men and strategic director at the international legal firm Reprieve.
The mild-mannered lawmaker has been an influential conservative for much of his eight years in Congress, having served as chairman of the House Freedom Caucus during the first two years of Trump's presidency and playing a key role in the push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Over three seasons from 1952 to 1955, the sitcom Mister Peepers cranked out 127 episodes (of which only 102 still survive) about the titular character (played by Wally Cox), a mild-mannered high school teacher living in the kind of idyllic small-town American television celebrated often in the 1950s.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Perhaps most surprising about the new film Burden, directed by Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey and screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, is its depiction of artist Chris Burden's dramatic transformation from a rabble-rousing student in the 245s to a mild-mannered landowner in 222.
Cora's story wrapped with last year's finale, "Part VIII," when fans learned the complete reason the seemingly mild-mannered mom killed a "stranger" (Eric Todd) on a placid family beach day (the late Frankie Belmont wasn't a stranger at all, he accidentally killed Cora's sister during a drug-fueled evening five years prior).
This means Crowe gets to play a rather mild-mannered, milquetoast British man who's got lots of knowledge and is good at delivering exposition, until he starts to turn into his horrific alter ego Mr. Hyde (which happens about every five minutes — it's a wonder he's been given a major management position).
I sat in the jail with Rosalind Hall, 53, a warm, mild-mannered woman with graying hair who has been imprisoned for a total of almost 18 months, in short stints, simply for failing to pay a blizzard of fines and fees relating to petty crimes (for which she separately served time).
Trailers for the movie include scenes showing the Gandhis telling the mild-mannered Singh what to do, providing political ammunition for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party as it girds for a harder than expected battle to win a second term at an election that must be called by May.
After a few days of living like an Italian on Swiss soil, I noticed that Ascona has an attractive dual nature: snow-capped mountains fraternizing with palm trees and vineyards, bougainvillea-rimmed hotels with snappy service, mild-mannered (at least the ones I encountered) Vespa drivers who stop for (and often greet) pedestrians.
But that's also why the mild-mannered-ness of this year's Oscars felt so disappointing — because it didn't seem like it came from a place of healing so much as it did from an instinct for self-preservation, or concern that too much anger is alienating audiences already drifting away from an industry in flux.
All three Goon Sax are heartthrob-pretty and waywardly fashionable: James mild-mannered but striking with his shock of straw-yellow hair; Louis tall and angular, newly sporting a cool-boy fade; Riley with her beguiling almond-shaped grey eyes and a sleek blonde mullet, clad in an Angie t-shirt bearing the word 'SHYNESS'.
In 2012 I believed then and now that Democrats severely overplayed their hand, leaning on all those old stereotypes to convince the country that Mitt Romney -- the successful, mild-mannered, Mormon family man who eschews cursing and name-calling -- was a racist and sexist monster better suited for a white-collar prison than the presidency.
Unlikely icon Tai, a mild-mannered Hong Kong University professor with a round clean-shaven face and thin-rimmed glasses, was a marginal political figure when, in January 2013, he proposed a civil disobedience campaign to pressure the government to introduce universal political suffrage — a long overdue promise of Hong Kong's de facto constitution known as the Basic Law.
Ms. Neill was 28 and a veteran of 40 or so films when she was first called on to play Lois, the breezy young reporter for The Daily Planet who disdains her mild-mannered colleague Clark Kent but suspects the truth: that he is actually Superman, the dashing defender of truth, justice and the American way.
But with the Senate careering toward a chamber-rattling showdown over President Trump's nominee, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, the body's long history of relative collaboration on Supreme Court matters has come to this: Next week, the last bastion of comity is expected to fall over a plainly qualified, mild-mannered nominee who had no major stumbles in his hearings.
For eight seasons, Westbrook and Durant were one of the great inscrutable duos in all of sports, superstars with wildly opposing personalities and playing styles, overachieving together in Oklahoma City, one of the smallest markets in the N.B.A. Durant was basketball's greatest prodigy since LeBron James, a mild-mannered, long-limbed scoring genius with a baby face and a golden jump shot.
During a half-hour interview this week with BuzzFeed News, Portman offered a glimpse of how Republicans like him — a mild-mannered conservative who came of age in the Bush era but now seems moderate when compared to Trump's far-right champions — are trying to navigate the reality of Trumpism and a president who has taken their party down a more populist and unpredictable path.
But the crucial thing about Trump is that while he gives all appearances of being a catastrophic presidential candidate — not supported by either of his party's two living past presidents, endorsed by zero major newspaper editorial pages, routinely decried as a liar by mild-mannered, non-ideological campaign reporters, and enjoying only grudging backing from the GOP congressional leadership — he's not performing that badly.
The series started its run a bit darker and weirder than previous Tick incarnations by questioning whether the titular super-strong, nearly invulnerable superhero (played by Peter Serafinowicz) was actually real, or just a manifestation of the mental health problems plaguing mild mannered accountant Arthur Everest (Griffin Newman) since he watched the supervillain The Terror (Jackie Earle Haley) murder his father and the legendary superhero squad the Flag Five.
Mr. Henry, who won an Emmy Award with Leonard Stern for outstanding comedy writing on the series, tried to repeat his "Get Smart" triumph, creating two other spoofy sitcoms: "Captain Nice" (20143), starring William Daniels (who played Benjamin Braddock's father in "The Graduate") as a mild-mannered reluctant superhero, and "Quark" (1977), a "Star Trek" sendup with Richard Benjamin as the Kirkish captain of an intergalactic garbage scow.
"When I heard later that he was part of a bank robbery for $1999 million, I couldn't believe it," recalled Mr. Wong, who learned from news accounts that those agents had arrested his mild-mannered neighbor in connection with a brazen holdup of a Brink's armored car service in Rochester, making off with $7.4 million in what the authorities then called the fifth-biggest armored car robbery ever in the United States.
By then Mr. Shagari, patrician and mild-mannered, had become what his followers called an elder statesman as his country grappled with challenges that had become familiar: an almost reflexive recourse to graft; an economic malaise relating to falling prices of oil, Nigeria's dominant foreign-currency earner; and a fierce divide between its northern Muslims and southern Christians that became ever more stark with the rise of a bloodthirsty jihadist movement called Boko Haram.
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