Huxley's mild suggestion (that the guests should pay) encroached on territory the Fellows thought was theirs by right.

A mild suggestion sounds like a dressing-down.

"Some evidence, a mild suggestion to the jury," he says, "would go a long way."

Elizabeth Smith Miller suggested the women form organizations at the state level, but even this milder suggestion met with opposition.

He ended with a mild suggestion to the guards: "And twenty lashes!"

Even mild suggestions for self-regulation are routinely denounced as attempted censorship.

He is very argumentative, and determined to take offence at even the mildest suggestion that anyone in authority is trying to oppress him.

With a mild suggestion to bis diurnal self, he was asleep in moments.