mildness

Despite the mildness of the farmworker’s illness, the prospect of continued infections worries some.

Do you want the bite of gorgonzola or the mildness of brie?

Where white sesame tastes like nuts, rich with a single-noted mildness, “black sesame has a bitterness,” Yagi said through her interpreter.

It lends a layered spiciness, she said, with pops of mildness from sesame and citrus, and soothing warmth from sansho pepper.

I had not expected to see him that night, but the mildness in his voice told me he had not come to make trouble.