Described as "mild-mannered", this former Soviet double agent now lives in retirement in California with his wife Nadia and grown up daughter Olga, an occupational therapist. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Karim, described as "mild-mannered, well-educated and respectful", hid his hatred for Western ways from colleagues by joining a gym, playing football and never airing extreme views but he was using his access to the airline's offices in Newcastle and at Heathrow to spread confidential information., the court heard. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Described as mild-mannered and private, Lindner was also known as fiercely competitive and an eternal optimist who carried a stack of cards bearing sayings such as Only in America. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Karim, described as "mild-mannered, well-educated and respectful", hid his hatred for Western ways from colleagues by joining a gym, playing football and never airing extreme views. ❋ Unknown (2011)
During the bus boycott, local civil rights leaders described her to the press as “mild-mannered and soft-spoken,” a “lady . . . who was too sweet to even say damn in anger,” and “a typical American housewife.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
They are less convinced that religious diversity is a good thing, and probably for that reason they are more bothered by an alien religion, even one as mild-mannered as Buddhism. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
With the spotlight, Fox has been transformed from a mild-mannered art director at a Brooklyn theater company to a respected filmmaker to an outspoken activist on par with Erin Brockovich, a professional thorn in the side of the natural gas industry. ❋ Joshua Kors (2011)
When otherwise mild-mannered performers want to misbehave, they take on a pseudonym. ❋ Aaron Leitko (2011)
Beatty's aggression has raised a few queries, especially considering his mild-mannered life off of the field. ❋ Aditi Kinkhabwala (2011)
It does this in part by comparing what the mild-mannered Clark Kent would do with his more dynamic alter-ego, Superman (obviously forgetting that the two are actually one and the same and that the superhero uses both approaches). ❋ Valerie Strauss (2010)
"Oh," inquired the mild-mannered Goldstein, "that would be her real hand, and not the book-signing automated hand?". ❋ Unknown (2009)
Rather than being a mild-mannered reporter, idle playboy, or police detective, in his non-heroic life the superhero was a boy about twelve years old. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Merciless and Luke Donald have never appeared together in the sentence but there was no other word to describe the mild-mannered Englishman's performance in defeating his youthful doppelganger Matteo Manassero in the third round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play. ❋ Unknown (2011)
One mild-mannered banking associate spoke about exploding in rage at a cab driver after unsuccessfully attempting to open a locked door from the outside: I became so furious that I kept banging against the windows like crazy, swearing at the poor guy. ❋ Leslie Kwoh (2012)
