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" Hammack is quite mild-mannered and not at all a showman ( except for his artistic abilities used to illustrate mathematical topics ) yet greatly appreciated by students , perhaps because of his clear and effective concern for their learning , " wrote a faculty nominator . " But these fruits of the spirit express themselves no differently than the fruits of the secular man who is mild-mannered , altruistic , pleasant , and peaceful in his existence . Let 's be clear : The Porsches built since the 1990s may be mild-mannered compared to those of yesteryear ; gentle in traffic and pliant under a novice 's hands . Is being mild-mannered going to work against these pirates ? That 's because over the years , munis , along with Treasury bonds and utility stocks , have won the well-deserved reputation of being mild-mannered , milquetoast investments that a broker would probably recommend to your grandmother . The old-line Pakistani diplomat was said by his associates to be mild-mannered and cool under pressure . Yet , on the surface , Reid is mild-mannered to the point of blandness . I have a question about the infantile slang terms that otherwise mature , educated , reasonable people deliberately employ in the subject lines and text of their emails in what I find to be a painfully and irritatingly misguided effort to make them , and their authors , sound " hip , " My question / point is this : not that these terms are in use somewhere in the world , by fairly identifiable groups / classes / cohorts of people ( high school students , frat boys , urban dwellers , etc ) , but that people who I know to be mild-mannered , usually white , professionals over 25 tend to abuse this kind of talk mercilessly in their email correspondence , as well as in their posts to professional discussion groups ( the field I am most familiar with is video postproduction ) . " Yoo is mild-mannered , but he is angry , and his anger pervades this work . The man who was summoned by fate to authorize his country 's salvation was mild-mannered , retiring , shy in the extreme . Andrew , a handsome and dashing naval officer , seemed a gung-ho character , but at heart he was mild-mannered and indecisive , with occasional outbursts of arrogance . For example , he regularly had been patient even with very difficult customers in the garage and in general was mild-mannered , but there was deep inside him an element which could commit acts of great violence if it was awakened in response to external circumstances calling forth such things as greed for substantial personal gain , fear for his safety or desire for revenge . Nearsighted with thick glasses , he was as rough on the court as he was mild-mannered off it . By all reports , he is mild-mannered and polite in his dealings with officials and developers , and he truly believes in social justice . He is mild-mannered , too , and does not appear to share the ideological pugnaciousness and cultural resentfulness of his putative future colleagues Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas .