1. Western political commentators were supercilious, to put it mildly, when India elected as a prime minister to succeed Mrs Gandhi, a man who, on his own admission, drank his own urine every morning, Morarji Desai. BNC
2. To describe her treatment as barbaric would be to put it mildly. Wasps
3. Rheinberger was, to put it mildly, a very competent craftsman, and both these quartets are very well turned, No. 2 in particular closing with an impressive fugue. BNC