Watts too was framed as an affable and devoted father.
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Equal parts kind and affable while maintaining a provocative allure.
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Even Hallie's dog, an affable golden retriever, didn't like her.
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It's exciting to see and adds to the affable personality.
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So I would try to be affable and just wanted.
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Adriana seems affable enough, yet her inquiries are like slaps.
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Professionally comfortable with improvising, the D.J.s make for affable company.
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It was the affable Sagan's third win of this Tour.
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Pompeo appeared affable while meeting the crown prince in Riyadh.
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Mr. Santos, generally quiet and affable toward neighbors, was withdrawn.
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What had happened to the affable, moderate guy I interviewed?
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One American who met with him described him as affable.
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In those ads, they were affable counterparts in the computing spectrum.
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In our short time watching, she was affable and at ease.
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GR: I knew he was an affable person, which he was.
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Someone with experience playing that special blend of affable, egotistical goofball.
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They provide a sort of begrudging amusement in their affable uselessness.
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Mr. Pratt's affable, teddy-bear machismo grows staler with each movie.
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For decades, Jeffrey Slonim was an affable presence on the scene.
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Born and raised in New York, Alvarez is affable and blunt.
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He's always very affable when I insult him and his friends.
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He's always so affable and friendly, and he's got this great energy.
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Jekyll Bruno is the nauseatingly affable young man who gave us "Grenade".
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With an easy, affable charm and flawless delivery, he told their story.
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Friends and former colleagues described him as affable and a fastidious banker.
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He's very good at working the room and is an affable character.
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Those duties are taken care of by an affable Australian (Stephen Peacocke).
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Ms. Headland is far more affable and socially adept than her characters.
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Where others seethe, Meyers delivers his biting punchlines with an affable grin.
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He remembers Mr. Gabow as generous, affable and respected by his colleagues.
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First of all, he is extremely affable and easy to talk to.
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His neighbor, Robert Sapia, told CNN that Zobayan was affable and exacting.
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He seems affable enough, and he's always been such a good friend.
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John Gallagher Jr. is an affable everyman; Sofia Boutella is his date.
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Two weeks later, the affable pup ended up at Memphis Animal Services.
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Those close to Hook attribute that to his outwardly warm, affable demeanor.
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Review follows the always affable Forrest MacNeil (played by the always affable Andy Daly) as he sets out to review life experiences for his show within the show, often to the detriment of his personal life and wellbeing.
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AFFABLE and portly, Sergey Kislyak seems nevertheless to be an eminently forgettable man.
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Far Cry 5 You'll find far more affable canines in Far Cry 5.
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The biographer and historian has found a wonderful subject in the affable Edward.
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Is it this generation's This Is Spinal Tap, or just an affable comedy?
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He came off, by turns, as affable, prickly, charming, abrasive, and borderline abusive.
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Now 40, Joe is affable, with dark features that confirm his Sicilian heritage.
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Brooke, an affable, bearded new father, is quick with a joke and laugh.
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The former mayor of London, who campaigned for Brexit, is affable and intelligent.
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O'Brien, unlike Bolton, has a reputation for being affable and a team player.
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It will be trouble for Trump if he appears too affable with Putin.
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With these constraints, we can eventually deduce that the split is AMIABLE/AFFABLE.
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"It's not that I feel unhittable," the affable 26-year-old Panamanian said.
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To an extent this owed to Mr. Snyder's affable and unassuming Midwestern persona.
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But over the years I have found him (usually) affable and often very funny.
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You know things are really serious when even the normally affable Jughead is angsty.
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Moreover, he is universally considered decent and able, pragmatic and principled, affable but steely.
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He is affable and effusive, which also makes him a very good interview subject.
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Incredibly affable and warm, Bridwell's also self-deprecating, apparently devoid of ego or pretension.
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A Hollywood Chris, member of the most wholesome, affable, universally loved tribe in Hollywood!
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" Noting his passing, Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson remarked on his "affable demeanor.
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Worth noting: Oliver also got more personal in his attacks on the affable Pai.
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But his affable persona belies another, more crude reputation, according to dozens of interviews.
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Assemblyman Daniel J. O'Donnell, a Manhattan Democrat, remembers Mr. Molinaro as an affable colleague.
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An engaging, affable manager, Gareth Southgate, presides over a group of gifted, charismatic players.
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My teacher was the very affable and knowledgeable Georgia-based folk artist Mark Hendry.
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ALAN BATES: THE AFFABLE ANGRY YOUNG MAN at the Quad Cinema (Feb. 219-21943).
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Friends called him an affable "nerd," and said he loved swing and ballroom dancing.
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State Senator Martin Golden, a Republican former police officer, is a classic, affable politician.
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Tully is the kind of affable yutz that Mr. Garcia, in particular, writes best.
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Richardson, an affable, quick-witted Londoner, is not like most people in the business.
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The president was much more affable in smaller venues, but he still sounded … wrong.
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Sloan, a plainspoken and affable executive, was never great casting as a change agent.
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The similarly affable Hinch tried to do the same at his session on Tuesday.
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Bounding into the evaluation room, Bacon seemed like an affable goofball, ready for adoption.
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He is constantly affable, the archetypal stoner buddy, always laughing in his distinctive way.
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Aides on both sides characterize the affable spirit as a necessity to an effective transition.
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Lucile Evans, an affable 81-year-old Black woman, said she grew up pulling cotton.
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And not even an affable and adorable-looking pope with progressive tendencies can fix that.
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The video for "HEAT" has the same affable, boisterous spirit as a One Direction clip.
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To his American friends and contacts, Stephen Su was an affable businessman and gregarious guy.
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The release of 'Trumped Up Cards' ... marked a new turn for the affable, pensive Hoffman.
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This month's meeting, with the affable Mr Trudeau presiding, will see a return to bonhomie.
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No realm of entertainment is littered with more outsiders made quickly into affable cash cows.
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Even Box and its affable founder-CEO Aaron Levie are under siege by activist investors.
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And yet Carmichael remains supremely affable, speaking in a slow, honeyed voice and smiling throughout.
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It is a tireless and affable diplomat, beloved abroad no matter the conditions back home.
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But as it turned out, he's quite an affable bloke, in his own special way.
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Carsten treats the affable, sloppy Niko — whose shiftlessness annoys his pregnant girlfriend — with consistent condescension.
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Tom Hanks brings his usual affable charm, as the voice and face of multiple characters.
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"She was universally well-liked — always cheerful, affable, funny, and super smart," Ms. Guerry said.
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He is an affable, low-key diplomat who colleagues said was unlikely to go rogue.
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Mr. Cumberbatch's affable screen presence works up a strong, steady counterbeat to his character's narcissism.
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In that context, Macklemore isn't an intruder — he's an affable buddy, a flush older brother.
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Amid the pressures of major-college sports, Bump Elliott was a low-key, affable figure.
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And Smudge, Mr. Irons's affable Jack Russell/bichon frisé, who goes wherever Mr. Irons goes.
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Mr. Starr, the affable president who reveled in that glory, was demoted; he later resigned.
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My generally affable 4-year-old cries foul if anyone else wins in a game.
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Late in the evening Adam Weinberg, the affable Whitney director, hustled along with Ms. DeWoody.
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Dr. Tam said that one reason might be because T.J. is affable and well behaved.
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Law enforcement proved an excellent fit for an athletic and affable man interested in psychology.
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It soon becomes quite clear that there's something a little off about this seemingly affable lady.
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He seems affable but shy — there's a slightly anxious undercurrent to his speech — and unmistakably sharp.
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Either way, this affable Midwesterner is a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
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Mr Puigdemont, an affable former journalist and mayor of Girona, blamed the government's refusal to talk.
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He lets more affable executives on his board do the bulk of media interviews these days.
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Attractive, affable and conventionally amusing, these four men have come to symbolize all that is good.
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Mr. Glickman, affable but low key, scored victories, including securing $400 million in government production incentives.
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The sudden departure meant she had to cancel her drink with the affable agent Bertie Pelham.
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Affable and articulate, he was eager to delve into and at least partly decrypt his work.
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They had a remarkably close and symbiotic relationship, Meyer warm and affable, Ovitz cerebral and tough.
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Varun Anand, an affable young campaign aide assigned to "wrangle" the traveling press corps, looked stricken.
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The camaraderie between her and the group — cool, good-humored, no-nonsense — left an affable impression.
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Over the phone, he's thoughtful, affable, caffeinated, and excited that Dreamland will soon have a farm.
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Emails, tweets, Slack messages — you name it — being affable and amenable is kind of my thing.
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It is usually an occasion for affable one-liners from politicians or, in election years, candidates.
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The adaptation by the film's writer-director, Amy Heckerling, is "affable but limp," our critic writes.
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That episode, from August 2015, captured Hickenlooper at his best: upbeat, affable and allergic to drama.
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Whitmer, who won the governor's mansion in 2018, delivered her remarks with an affable Midwestern folksiness.
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The affable Ayres sat for an interview at the N.H.L. offices in New York on Monday.
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His friend noticed Draper had lost weight, but remained the affable Mormon kid from back home.
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In the building's lobby, our uncertainty about the apartment number briefly flummoxed the affable young doorman.
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But he possesses a serene courage that is easy to underestimate because it is so affable.
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Those affable interludes make having to play the same mission over and over again far more enjoyable.
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As Washington DC's archbishop, he is remembered as a familiar, affable figure in the corridors of power.
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Unlike the sonically affable "GUMMY," the intro for SATURATION is the most menacing song in their catalog.
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It hurt him with moderates and blacks, and provided an opening for the more affable Mr. Chiles.
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This is a relaxed, affable sound signature that takes the fun parts of music and amplifies them.
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There is affable talk of pets, gym regimens and work reassignments, all grounded in tedious, quotidian detail.
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This doesn't make Don a monster — he's an affable guy who seems to genuinely love his wife.
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His thick Louisiana accent made him sound like an affable father figure with a perpetually stuffed nose.
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He won plaudits from diplomats for his affable style and cultivated important friendships in Russia and China.
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That disappointed many who saw him as an affable younger version of 76-year-old Mr Biden.
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Next door lives the affable Jewish dentist Mr Held, with his wife Anna and dreamy daughter Henriette.
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In Netflix's quietly affable reality program Terrace House, the setup is familiar, but the result is different.
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IN FOOTBALLING terms, Claudio Ranieri, an affable Italian, has found a way to turn water into wine.
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Hall recalled Davender as an assertive but affable person who made a lot of friends in Lexington.
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Crowley, a Queens powerbroker and affable House Democratic Caucus chairman, had been considered a possible future Speaker.
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To Rachel, her boyfriend Nick Young (Henry Golding) is an affable, intelligent, and ridiculously cute econ professor.
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But if you're leaning toward Trump, by all means make the switch to the affable Gary Johnson.
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Ed Vaizey is the former culture secretary and maintains an affable presence on the UK's tech scene.
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The popular journalist and affable raconteur Jamal Khashoggi had been killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
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The heart of the group is Nandor (Kayvan Novak), a once-fearsome Turk turned affable den mother.
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Hutchison's family—including his lovely, affable brother Grant, Frightened Rabbit's drummer—went through hell starting May 9.
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Murphy is not one of those genial lawmakers whose affable demeanor makes him popular with his peers.
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"Meet Your Black Girlfriend" showcases Hughes' characteristic style: Using affable humor to unpack a potentially sensitive topic.
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Barr may be a three-time incumbent, but the affable, sixth-generation Kentuckian clearly enjoys the campaign.
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Early in the night, I asked Todd Stevens, an affable, longhaired information-technology director from York, Penn.
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Bill Gates, the tech pioneer turned international do-gooder, and general affable guy, reminds of Ned Stark.
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Certainly, Biden's name recognition and reputation are much higher after eight years serving as Obama's affable vice president.
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With his easy smile and affable personality, he later became an on-air media figure and movie star.
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Someone in the lake does a handstand, while an affable shirtless dude wades in with a fishing rod.
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The mood is affable and meandering, and, like a too-leniently edited home movie, can test one's patience.
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Wood is white-haired, white-bearded, and affable, with circular black glasses and the hint of an underbite.
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He had become a regular in the press as an affable pitchman for his lineup of quirky inventions.
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Almost overnight, LaBeouf went from basic to scumbag — from affable leading(ish) man to wild, unpredictable bad boy.
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In the segment, even the affable Ellen DeGeneres could not resist a nostalgic trip to the Tanner house.
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Voices filtered to him from the galley: Amos' affable rumble and the thinner, reedy sound of Clarissa's voice.
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The fact that the affable, sinewy McKagan we see onstage is still living and breathing is a miracle.
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Bruno Mars Mars cemented his reputation as the world's hardest-working contemporary pop star with an affable appearance.
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But that strategy -- plus his affable debate-stage demeanor -- have allowed him to avoid other Republicans' targets, too.
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Some who have worked or met with Hu say he has a relatively relaxed and affable leadership style.
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Both men are affable and personally likable politicians authentically comfortable bucking their party and working across the aisle.
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Lou Young is a rugged, affable man of 290, with a bald head and a well-behaved beard.
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The affable, conservative lawmaker joined the Armed Services Committee last year, so he is a relatively new member.
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Adrien Brody has always been a pretty affable character in Hollywood — a talented actor and seemingly decent guy.
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In 2016, these voters aren't looking for another naively affable Bible-thumper—they want someone who can win.
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The high-school comedy bits of "Far From Home," while not especially original, have a sweet, affable charm.
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Word of the Day : diffusing warmth and friendliness _________ The word affable has appeared in 165 articles on nytimes.
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This eagerly affable woman seems to crawl through life in a defensive slump, glancing anxiously over her shoulder.
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That wolf, Eyulf, is appealingly affable, but Varya's a surprising pleasure for a reader to spend time with.
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All the while, the affable, smooth-talking Mr. Hall gave no hint of where the treasure might lie.
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The only other character that doesn't elicit a cringe is Cathy's crush, the affable gentleman Michael (Peter Mullan).
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He's an affable if mordant raconteur, and his concerts can feel like a kind of seminar in themselves.
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I remembered a story that Hussein, a shy and affable man in his early twenties, had told me.
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There always comes a time when the most affable host begins to brood about being taken advantage of.
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KORAT, Thailand — Fellow soldiers described him as quiet and affable, a skilled marksman who liked to play soccer.
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The proprietor, a scruffy but affable fellow, stands at the table and tells you what he has available.
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But, it's pretty easy to build good relations in Congress if you're reasonably affable and not Ted Cruz.
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For Hickenlooper, an affable politician with a reputation for friendliness and warmth, the ailment has done the opposite.
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It seems unlikely Marvel will kill off the affable vegetarian, especially given the "Us" star's ever-rising profile.
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Raveesh was an affable extrovert, always buying rounds; the unofficial mayor of that part of town, Lunsford called him.
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It was a go-to place where one could be assured of quality, affable staff and meticulously made cocktails.
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He's an affable and confident young man who'd been a swim instructor, a lifeguard, and an excellent hockey player.
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During his two decades in Congress, the affable Walden developed a reputation for civility and working across the aisle.
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But if any secular politician can make inroads in the Kurdish south-east, it is the affable Mr Ince.
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Is there a reason why such an affable filmmaker was able to conjure up such a distressing cinematic ride?
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And Ms Lesko, an affable and locally-popular mother of three, was a pretty strong candidate for the eighth.
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" Favreau noted in his column that the Obama campaign also "underestimated how affable, confident, and charming (Romney) would seem.
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With breathless energy and a bright-red mohawk, he comes across as the world's most affable Fury Road character.
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Let's say for the sake of argument this is all just Devon's affable personality, rather than self-aware gamesmanship.
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Brown cultivated an affable, bipartisan image, but he wasn't willing to buck conservative party leaders in the US Senate.
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The affable CEO has handled this pressure with calm grace — as Page and Brin stayed out of the spotlight.
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I did know that he was a very affable bearded man, and we both lived in the Bay Area.
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How to accomplish that without risking his generally affable, optimistic brand will be a challenge -- and remains a mystery.
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They also review Keanu, an affable action-comedy from Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Comedy Central fame.
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On Sunday's premiere episode, the affable survivalist learns what happens when a yellowjacket stings a man in the genitals.
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Mr. Katumbi, an affable, loquacious and very rich former governor, declared last week that he was running for president.
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Sinosphere BEIJING — Canadians, apart perhaps from hockey players, seem to pride themselves on being affable people averse to confrontation.
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He is undecided on his political leanings (for now), inoffensive, instantly recognizable, and affable on TV and social media.
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High standards, high ratesChu, who likes wearing bow-ties, is affable to many and known for having ultrahigh standards.
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The toothy smile could be straight from the affable Australian shark Bruce in 2003's Finding Nemo. JAW-SOME!
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They look and sound like a bunch of affable graduate students who share the same dry sense of humor.
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Watching Clery's videos really is like sitting across from an affable grandfather figure, talking gently about nothing of importance.
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Paul Sun-Hyung Lee stars as the affable father of a Korean-Canadian family that runs a convenience store.
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Judge Kavanaugh, who finally had the microphone hours later, portrayed himself as an impartial jurist and affable family man.
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In that same decade, Ellen DeGeneres would become famous, partly by being all-American affable, never an erotic threat.
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Affable security guard, stationed to the painting's left, makes the first of several requests for spectators to stand back.
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Solomon, an affable kid with an easy smile, bonded with one classmate over their common affection for rap music.
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It's all very nice, and the agile, ever-affable Parsons dancers perform it as if in a warm bath.
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COMEDY Mr. Attell — the affable grouch from Comedy Central's "Insomniac," who performs Friday and Saturday at 221:227 p.m.
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Documentary portraits of this type often incorporate testimonials from affable, encouraging experts who smilingly help burnish the subject's reputation.
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Monte was scouted by a group of Hollywood animal trainers, she said, one of whom adopted the affable canine.
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Well-dressed, affable and tan year-round, he was always available in an emergency, and even made house calls.
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Brawny, cocky, and thrilling, he's in every way opposite to Lucy's affable, supportive, and devout husband Drew (Dan Stevens).
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He was affable from the podium on Friday and did a mostly smooth job on the Sunday news shows.
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And for those uneasy with going to a store for a fitting, the affable Sid Mashburn has a solution.
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Affable and charismatic, Mr. Fleming seemed to have as much passion for coaching as he once did for running.
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"I like Trump, he's a brilliant man," Bill Graham, the affable eight-term Republican mayor of Scottsburg, told me.
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From the beginning, investors loved Weprin's affable personality and knack for delivering returns on projects other groups passed by.
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"The Nutcracker," with its multiple national dances, has always been socially inclusive; this production's cultural pluralism was particularly affable.
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Many Democratic voters clearly prefer Biden's affable conventionality, and many others share Sanders's tear-the-whole-thing-down instincts.
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Ros is an affable prostitute who used to see Theon in Winterfell, before making her way to King's Landing.
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Another thing that will weigh heavily against O'Leary is his opponent, the attractive and affable scion of the Trudeau dynasty.
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But the meme swamps the Yang Gang calls home harbor all sorts of life — some of it far less affable.
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Peter Rawlinson, Lucid Motors' affable chief technology officer, was on hand to show off some of the car's cooler features.
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Though residents described Finlay as affable, he's apologized to them for being bound to negotiation-limiting aspects of the deal.
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In Andrzej Duda it found a young, affable presidential contender who outmanoeuvred Bronislaw Komorowski, the PO's respectable but dull incumbent.
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In person, she's affable and matter-of-fact, though traces of Satan are noticeable in her tattoos and leather jacket.
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Mr. Wright is, in fact, Mr. Rangel's chosen successor, an affable pol deeply rooted in Harlem's political and business establishment.
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Despite her 215st placement in the women's world golf rankings, Gulbis remains among the sport's most popular and affable players.
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While Keef played the enigmatic auteur, a distant center of gravity unto himself, Fredo was more of an affable networker.
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"It's just accepted," says Jim Beicker, the affable sheriff of Fremont County, whose wife recently retired from a prison job.
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He is elliptical at times and, at others, direct: alternately distant and affable, somber and playful, rash and profoundly considered.
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Unassuming and affable — until his Twitter account exploded with Hillary Clinton attacks this week — Mr. Pence knows how Washington works.
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But that poll was taken before Biden's latest stumble, when he talked about his affable relationship with the late Sen.
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"It's not going to be Donald Trump," snapped the usually affable Mr. Gardner, who is trying to elevate Mr. Rubio.
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The bro was affable — if a little knee-jerk anti-woman — and the bro wanted to have a good time.
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Professionally comfortable with improvising, the D.J.s make for affable company, and it's amusing to watch radio from behind the scenes.
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For the first time in its brilliant run, we see the affable but flawed Rob thrust into the emotional spotlight.
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She is clearly being very affable, and you can see how enthusiastic people are to get a glimpse of her.
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He would always say that he was fine, and family and friends considered him affable and easygoing, to the end.
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"Lodge 49," an affable, idiosyncratic comic drama starting Monday on AMC, is by this standard low-stakes, and blissfully so.
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As sexual assault accusers go, one would have been hard pressed to find one more able and affable than Ford.
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Carlo Campana, the librarian on duty in the Marciana manuscript room when we arrived, was typical in his affable erudition.
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But the more he sees, the more the normally affable Will suffers inside, his civility giving way to confused rage.
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"It's a top 10 at a slam so it's right up there," the affable 28-year-old American told reporters.
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Chris Klein plays affable, dim jock Paul Metzler, whom McAllister encourages to enter the race for class president against Flick.
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Many black voters fell in love with Biden after watching him play the affable, dependable VP to President Barack Obama.
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For Ms. Klobuchar, there is the added complication of tending to a campaign image premised on affable Midwestern common sense.
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"The old police mantra was make it home safely," said Tyrrell Bagby, 67, an affable second-generation Camden police officer.
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I remember him as an affable old man with a gracious wife who made a modest living selling antique lace.
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He was 34, affable, chatty and remarkably descriptive about his drug use, which had been going on for two decades.
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Played with affable gruffness by Richard Coyle, Lamb is the anti-Murdoch, a comradely (if tough) captain to Murdoch's maladroit monarch.
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He is an affable raconteur, with a droll sense of humor and a clear-eyed view of himself and his town.
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"I stopped using marijuana when I was 27606," Rohrabacher, a perennially smiley man who radiates an infectiously affable energy, tells me.
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James Corden: you know him as the popular host of "The Late Late Show," beloved "Carpool Karaoke"-er, affable British comedian.
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I am slightly embarrassed to approach him with such an eccentric-seeming inquiry, but Dr. Ruths's reply is affable and serious.
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As Brown described his affable neighbor, he began to cry on the witness stand, wiping tears away with his T-shirt.
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Hariri, an affable and earnest CEO who started Vero with two childhood friends, says the app's best days are still ahead.
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And pretty quickly you realize that it's true: Brookstone stores are closing, but its spirit lives on in these affable oddities.
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He's affable, often grins when he speaks, and has an inviting, slightly Midwestern lilt, despite being a lifelong resident of Virginia.
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But the no-nonsense, affable Klobuchar could also plausibly appeal to Rust Belt voters whom her party needs to win over.
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Not even the affable David Rosen has been able to escape the burn of a deceitful lover thanks to Elizabeth North.
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There's no disputing that the older, intelligent and affable Lindsay doesn't deserve to deal with childlike antics and neither do we.
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In 1989's Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, an affable ant saves a gang of miniature children from a scorpion's sting.
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By sitting out the 2016 primary, Biden's record largely remained unexamined, thereby preserving his image as an affable, everyman vice president.
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Everyone knew that he was C.I.A., and that he combined an affable and artless personality with a talent for dirty tricks.
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The other striking aspect of these rallies is how affable the crowd is — until the Trump campaign cranks up the intolerance.
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I still remember how Mike Arrington used to rail about Valleywag as if affable Owen Thomas were some kind of barbarian.
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During that extremely active decade, Terry Jones became well known as an affable, white-haired gentleman with a delightfully thick accent.
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Anders can be thoughtless and casually cruel (after sex with Barbara, for example), and he can also be affable and honest.
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Friendly and palpably affable, Péron's choice to wear his own band's shirt under a paisley-patterned blazer can certainly be forgiven.
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Mr. Barrett, who was born in Ireland and still speaks with a strong accent, is known for being affable and chatty.
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Each man was affable, direct and seemed happy to talk, but, then, they have been in the business a long time.
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They were go-down-easy events for the affable Mr. Barr, Republican of Kentucky, filled with ready smiles and glad hands.
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Evren Butik is a slightly more manageable shopping environment — a cozy vintage store run by the friendly and affable Algodan Kemaloglu.
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Not that there was anything off about Rich, an intelligent, affable guy who simply wasn't as exciting as his Bumble persona.
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Baffert, 66, with his five Kentucky Derby winners and two Triple Crown champions, assumed a role as the sport's affable statesman.
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So Mr. Miller, the affable senior statesman of the handful of remaining seltzer deliverymen in New York City, used hand trucks.
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And Ned Nickerson (Tunji Kasim), Nancy's affable boyfriend in the books, may be hiding a dark secret in The CW show.
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We sat in a screening room accompanied by two affable white P.R. people and a black security guard who said nothing.
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One of the earliest players in the game, Filmspotting has been producing weekly installments of affable, insightful film analysis since 2005.
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When it comes to the obvious qualifiers, Jordan checks all the boxes: good seniority, affable personality, well-liked by his colleagues.
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Perhaps no biography should be written: perhaps this magus should be allowed to vanish from the scene—affable, implacable, unknowable. ♦
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"If they break the rules, I'll beat them," she said as the men, gathered around her in an affable group, laughed.
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He might be affable, but he is a loner, aloof from the tearooms and quiet drinking holes that make up Westminster life.
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At the house, the landlord, an affable 79-year-old man named Abdur-Rahim Dib Dudar, gave her a hurried walk-through.
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As Richard, Claflin embraces his goofiest Brit-self, bringing a portrayal that is both affable and charming, but allows Woodley to shine.
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Affable and quick to laugh, he had no idea what was going on with Foxconn, and he was extremely relaxed about it.
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"Pyjama paralysis" is the bane of hospital wards, says Brian Dolan, an affable academic and a registered nurse who started the campaign.
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Lawrence creates affable comedies filled with lovable people that nevertheless probe darker territory about death and broken human spirits and the like.
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Cruise is a remarkable talk-show guest—maybe the best there is in 2018: Affable, genuinely funny, and seemingly down for anything.
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A friendly, affable character as showcased in his pre-fight interview, Karaoglu looked visibly uncomfortable as he walked towards the KSW cage.
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Zidane never really fit the mold of the 21st-century soccer idol—he wasn't the smiling, affable guy brands can count on.
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Boehner is an affable guy, and less ideologically stringent than Ryan, which lends him afterglow in this particularly cruel and chaotic moment.
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Peek behind Pullman's affable smile and you sense a rocklike prejudice that will be no easier to break than a champion's serve.
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He has an overbite and big cheeks, which add an affable and perhaps misdirecting ingenuousness to his presence, in person and onstage.
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Affable and a long-serving cadre, Mkhize is touted as a compromise candidate who could soothe tensions between the party's primary factions.
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In fact, Mr. Kleeman, an affable Midwesterner from suburban Chicago, was known to his many friends as a man who never swore.
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High Maintenance is ostensibly a show about an affable weed-delivery guy schlepping his buds, baggies, and edibles through the five boroughs.
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Five days a week for the last 23 years, the affable Ms. Bartlett, 60, and her team have followed an immutable ritual.
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Mr. Wolfe relished the clandestine nature of his work — using "jimwolfe007" as his personal email address — and he projected an affable charm.
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That's the crux of Miles Malleson's 1925 "Conflict," an affable relic excavated by the Mint Theater Company and directed by Jenn Thompson.
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ALEX GARLAND: Nick's character, Forest, is in some ways genial and affable, but in other ways there's something really dark inside him.
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He was 26, an affable prince who had studied history at Oxford and happened to be second in line to the throne.
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The Hurricanes' affable approach toward their fans has been reciprocated during these playoffs in which they have gone 5-0 at home.
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Presenting Graham as a forerunner to feminist theorists diminishes her, though the lecture-demonstration enlivens when the dancers assault the affable docent.
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Hill, Tucker's wonky but affable opponent who has represented the district since 2015, has a similarly complicated relationship with President Donald Trump.
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Sagan, 27, is one of the biggest stars in cycling right now because he's incredibly talented, not to mention affable and fun.
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In person, he is warm and affable, his facial expressions a far cry from the severe grimace in his Twitter profile pic.
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Over time, he develops into an affable, radiant character; the dynamic between the two is among Season 2's most compelling aspects.
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But it was at Zuccotti Park where he rose to prominence, as an affable but firm intermediary between protesters and police officials.
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Shota and the father, Osamu (a great Lily Franky, by turns affable and unsavory), first see the girl shivering outside her home.
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The question pops up frequently when we're visiting friends of my mother's over the holidays or talking to affable cashiers at the supermarket.
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SHR over-delivered with Knost, who has a doctorate in mechanical engineering but was far less patient or personable as the affable Gibson.
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In place of a provincial toughie known as "The Demolition Man", Italy has acquired an affable Roman aristocrat with a preference for compromise.
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She usually ends up sounding like an unusually affable supervillain, which is still far more compelling than the sneering, stereotypically arrogant Templar leaders.
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"THE CONDITIONS here are not the worst part," says Zabiullah, an affable middle-aged Afghan, sipping sweet tea in a rat-infested tent.
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Trump has defended his previously affable relationship with the Clintons as just one of the many he maintained to benefit his business interests.
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Paul's movies, combined with his affable demeanor, made him a hit on Vine, a social media platform known for looping six-second video.
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Both actresses play the character as an affable everywoman who cares about her friends and family, and has a general zest for life.
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Residents avoid the area for fear that it is unsafe, says Boyd Cox, an affable veteran who owns a large antique shop downtown.
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In the past, he's been captured inspecting everything from hosiery to apples in an orchard, always looking affable and happy to be there.
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For example, you'd think from the film that the largely affable John Reid (played by Aiden Gillan, aka Littlefinger) was Queen's first manager.
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Penetrating the school's network proved simple, he says, and thanks to Desautels' affable arrogance, talking his way out of trouble was easier still.
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When the curator—the affable and fascinating Omar Kholeif—arrives to begin our tour, one of the pieces begins to talk over him.
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Hussein Kanji and Rob Kniaz are the affable, plugged-in investors behind Hoxton Ventures, the early-stage European investment fund headquartered in London.
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He's 39 and 6-foot-2, an imposing 10-year veteran of the force on patrol with an affable rookie named Nathan Smalkoski.
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When Anna summons the police, she is visited by Conrad Little, an affable and loquacious detective, and engages him in TV-style repartee.
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He seems utterly affable, and just self-aware enough to understand that his house is made of cards, but still, what a house.
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His affable but rigorous social-media presence and tantalizing website are credited with making the old-fashioned tool not just literary but lit.
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"Smugness is lethal," said the affable Mr. Solondz (who, in the show, makes the entitled parents the targets of his most pointed satire).
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He presented a specific combination of Russian masculinity — he could be gruff and haughty but also earnest and affable, depending on the setting.
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The affable 29-year-old seated before me with the dripping wrist need not reiterate that he's stacked his paper and leveled up.
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Petersen is a young party activist with a sizable following online, and Feldman is an affable figure many convention goers, including Johnson, have praised.
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The hope cultivated by "Bridge of Spies" is that Rudolf Abel, the affable Soviet agent, will not be executed after he is sent home.
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You don't get to constantly lie on behalf of the worst president in modern history and get to reinvent yourself as the affable goof.
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That said, they would be free to contact Urmson, whose departure caused much consternation internally, due to his well-regarded reputation and affable personality.
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Once they're at Randall's house though, Olivia thinks Kevin is trying to turn her into something she's incapable of being: a warm, affable person.
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The face of the multimillion-dollar campaign in Massachusetts is Ian, an affable 15-year-old transgender boy with a swoop of blonde hair.
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His outspokenness dovetails strangely with his seemingly bland, affable persona, but doesn't seem to attract any lasting hostility from more moderate or conservative voices.
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The human champ, the affable Danil "Dendi" Ishutin, threw in the towel after being killed three times, saying he couldn't beat the unstoppable bot.
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He is said to be an affable and unerringly polite person, but one with a steel spine who brooks no rivals within the party.
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He's a much less abrasive presence on the show and in public, coming off as unassuming and affable, if not overly warm and friendly.
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And with all due respect to Gary Johnson, an affable libertarian, and Jill Stein, an environmentalist, there are only two candidates who can win.
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Bush, Sr. was reportedly affable and diplomatic; he certainly did not use dehumanizing language in 280 characters to disparage his enemies while in office.
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Open-air cars should seem affable and approachable, and the gruffness of a muscle car makes a strange pairing, like a four-wheeled mullet.
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In 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, an affable centrist judge on the D.C. Circuit, to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
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Afterward, we had dessert crepes next door at Happy Pancake Workshop, a ramshackle operation that was manned by three affable young actors from Sofia.
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The affable weather is a drawcard but more than anything, this place is a fraction of the price of treatment in our home countries.
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Araoz said she was a baby-faced 14-year-old when an affable brunette woman approached her outside her Manhattan high school in 2001.
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He screws around with an affable American model at a press junket in Qatar, but he likes her and ends up seeing her again.
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Colleagues described him as affable and said he quickly ingratiated himself with the staff in Mr. Sessions's office and those elsewhere in the building.
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The affable and very funny Kenan Thompson of "Saturday Night Live" will host the shows, in which he'll appear along with the regular cast.
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Archibald, an affable Canadian in his mid-fifties, greeted us at the door of his Spanish-style duplex home, where he lives and teaches.
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His affable detachment, which has made him a reliable, if not always memorable, performer, slowly gives way to something darker, stranger and more interesting.
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The human embodiment of a chill night in, Niall projects affable, regular-guy energy, but in a more palatable way than, say, Ed Sheeran.
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Forty-six, handsome, fiercely affable, he was wearing jeans and sneakers and a V-necked sweater the day I went to watch a taping.
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Larocca, stocky and affable, with close-cropped hair, is Brazilian; his country's flag, in yellow, green, and blue, is tacked above his lab bench.
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The European Commission designated an affable Frenchman, Michel Barnier, as its chief negotiator and gave him a team of 60, drawn from 19 nationalities.
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Affable and calm, his voice radiates a matter-of-fact confidence that could only come from someone who knowing that they've created something special.
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When she finally found out, Ms. Dussourd directed her anger at herself, blaming herself for having welcomed the affable Father Geoghan into her home.
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You can talk about a particular policy because that's serious and substance, but when you talk about culture it feels so amorphous and affable.
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There's an affable air to Randy that makes it seem as though he was relaxed, that whatever happened happened...but underneath he was quite ambitious.
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Leifheit, Dust, and Stein were all on hand throughout, happily manning the bar when called upon to do so, and were consistently affable and gracious.
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Williams told investigators the ageless, affable game show host told him to "Do it," which Pierce says his client interpreted as a command to kill.
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On the show, "Uncle Fluffy" is how the characters refer to President Bartlet's chronic and cloying desire to be liked and appear affable in public.
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" Clapper said Trump was "very affable and solicitous" in the call and characterized the discussion as a "success," noting that it was a "constructive engagement.
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He was generally an affable type whose demeanor soured only with excessive drinking or drug use, but on this day he was disheveled and nervous.
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There Joe McBeth, an affable slacker known to everyone as Mac (Ryan McCartan), is wading into his 30s content to work the Fry-O-Lator.
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They are underdogs, their roster is stocked with likable and socially conscious players, and they're coached by an affable man who looks like Tank McNamara.
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Even the affable Carson has prompted a few smirks with the oversize entourage that buffers him as he moves from one event to the next.
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You know, like the spring break beaches of today, down to the random naked dude, here filled by affable best friend Rudi Malzig (Johann Jürgens).
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Affable executives dodge almost every attempt to wheedle out useful ways of comparing the firm with its listed peers (it has no peers, they dissemble).
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The night of the event Black was an affable host, keeping his friends entertained, and letting them know about my week living as Joe Rogan.
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Palmer's affable demeanor, telegenic looks and success on the course all helped boost television ratings for golf, making it a staple of weekend TV sports.
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It currently boasts a liberal government led by an affable young prime minister who is keen on protecting the environment and taking in Syrian refugees.
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Like him, his memoir has an affable, indolent, Whiggish air, which might have made him an adequate if forgettable prime minister in the eighteenth century.
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We quickly learn Robbie Gibbons, an affable Alabama man battling weight issues, is a central character and the series' very own Hurley Reyes (Jorge Garcia).
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The Washington Post recently reported O'Brien is perceived as "a team player" with "affable demeanor," a stark contrast with Bolton's hard-edged and confrontational approach.
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Russell charms with his earnest portrayal of Dud, a happy-go-lucky and affable performance that draws comparisons to "the Dude" in The Big Lebowski.
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Rose would initially respond with polite incredulity, but by the third or so call this seemingly affable man sounded frustrated enough to eat his microphone.
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Kyle Schwarber, the affable young left fielder, beamed in the Wrigley Field clubhouse later, saying the whole night had been fun, not stressful at all.
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Boothman, unlike Rowley's affable real-life demeanor, is a monotone conductor of urgent-feeling rhythms, a dark element on top of an already moody album.
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An affable former Marine who focused on labor rights and economic fairness, Mr. Lamb took care not to alienate Trump voters by antagonizing the president.
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Breezy flirtation from affable male acts is the reigning norm in the country mainstream, and the Annies' style of songwriting couldn't be further from it.
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Blunt yet affable, Mr. Schäuble had a talent for brinkmanship that often helped Germany's point of view to prevail, to the frustration of his critics.
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Dr. Brand has tried to run a tighter ship than his predecessor, Edmund Capon, an affable, energetic Englishman who led the museum for 33 years.
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That friend, Keith, is played by the real-life R&B star John Legend, whose affable participation presents an interesting challenge to Seb's dogmatic traditionalism.
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Stengel was the affable Midwesterner — Casey, as in K.C., his hometown — who charmed fans with his meandering speech (affectionately known as "Stengelese") and absurd antics.
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Hood is known for his affable personality and a brand he's cultivated as a moderate Democrat who opposes abortion and favors more expansive gun rights.
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When we arrive, Giertz introduces me to her main collaborator on the Truckla, Marcos Ramirez, an affable, bearded guy in a turquoise cap and overalls.
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Playing the affable host as if he were at home, Rubinstein started at 6:45 one summer evening and, pleased with the results, kept going.
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So it's a pleasant surprise to discover that she is affable, disarmingly straightforward and prone to exploding into laughter at her own stories and jokes.
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The long-hitting, affable Finau, who is of Polynesian descent, will make his Presidents Cup debut against the International Team at Royal Melbourne from Dec.
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"Consummately Skilled and Affable Handyman," reads my imagined Craigslist ad, which you will send to all your previous clients to forward to their wealthy friends.
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But Trump struck a more affable tone after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, saying the French leader was helping work out trade issues.
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But he was more affable after meeting Macron and Trudeau, swapping jokes with the latter before the media though neither budged on their trade positions.
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He's affable and verbose on the phone, but sometimes it seems like it's only because that's the most polite way to avoid giving definitive answers.
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It's one of the themes of his upcoming album, Thirst 483 Part 2, and it's also a reflection of his generally affable but reserved demeanor.
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Although Lorcan O'Neill is now one of the most international and important galleries in Rome — if not in Italy — the affable dealer keeps a low profile.
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He's affable and polite, with a winning smile, and we never see him be anything other than kindly toward human or animal unless they deserve it.
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Speaking Simulator, by developer Affable Games, puts the player in the head of a robot that has to puzzle out, syllable by syllable, how to talk.
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In last night's episode, we only saw a few short scenes with Rick, who is traveling with the underused and affable Aaron on a supply mission.
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Known for his affable nature, Harry does his own grocery shopping -- and even took part in a pub quiz during his 2015 trip to New Zealand.
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And in true form, some of Strahan's closeness to his colleagues results from his affable personality and dedication to putting in the time outside of work.
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His daughter, Katherine (Leila George), has befriended an affable young historian named Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan), who has a fondness for artifacts from the ancient world.
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On Monday, Clinton was holding one final practice session with "affable Trump" (played by her former Senate and State Department communications adviser), according to NBC News.
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Not all analysts trust that the affable Mr Ekholm, who says such things as "I'm a big believer in evolution," is tough enough to transform Ericsson.
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ANTONIO COSTA, Portugal's affable prime minister, greets your columnist with a broad grin as he settles his hefty frame into a sofa in his official residence.
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An affable Army vet with gray hair, a goatee, and wire-frame glasses, Paul worked as a concierge at a rustic event space called the Barn.
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He's failed to live up to the buzz of that deep clean, but once you get over the hype, it's a pretty earnest, affable Instagram feed.
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Anyone with ears knows Lil B and iLoveMakonnen have fathered a whole generation of young rap weirdos with their affable personas and light-hearted based freestyles.
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"Promoting a low cost, index fund solution to investing, he guides his readers as if he's your affable neighbour, explaining the process over coffee," Hallam writes.
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What might he give away to a well-briefed, affable and articulate Kim Jong Un, who would know just how to stroke President Trump's ravenous ego?
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"Random Acts of Flyness" begins with the show's host, Terence Nance, an affable goofball with a blown-dandelion Afro and a tooth gap, biking through Brooklyn.
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The Washington Post recently reported O'Brien is perceived as "a team player" with "affable demeanor," a stark contrast with Bolton's ideological and hard-edged management approach.
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Stephen Malkmus talks the way his music sounds—arch and affable, with an elliptical, stream-of-consciousness candor cut with bits of wisdom and incisive observations.
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Whereas his mentor, Gregg Popovich, is rather icy with the media, often wearing his contempt on his sleeve through press conferences, Keer is affable and game.
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An affable man, seemingly indifferent to appearances, he wore a worn orange dhoti and white shirt with a blue ink stain billowing out beneath the pocket.
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The German auteur — a wildly prolific wunderkind whose sardonic melodramas served to re-establish German cinema on the international stage — appeared at once affable and menacing.
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Once again that same problem rears its head: How do we separate the affable New Mexico artist/rancher from the nasty chaos he chooses to produce?
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Unlike Mr. Brooks, State Senator Martin Golden, a Republican former police officer who has represented the area for nearly 16 years, is a classic, affable politician.
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An affable entertainer, he's best when he applies the brakes and motions to the audience, modulating his tone and showcasing his lively impressions and hammy expressions.
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"I'm partial to jazz with a little bit of grease in it," Mr. McBride told the audience in his affable baritone, as the applause died down.
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"This bizarre ritual, to those who witnessed it, was an insight into the torrent of focus and drive that lies beneath Boris's affable exterior," Purnell writes.
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Warren, who was best known as a candid, meticulous and affable head of the Pentagon's press operations is seen as a natural fit for cable news.
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She is an affable, uninhibited performer, whether as narrator or as the mysterious stranger, peddling the fable to us via enchanting lyrics and flourishes of humor.
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Many of the Sandburg poems included here — either read or sung over Mr. Wilson's originals, played by a flexible small ensemble — are both affable and irreverent.
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And though it is nominally a box, it is hardly square in the figurative sense, which cannot be said of this affable show as a whole.
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Steve Daines, an affable Republican from Montana, was presiding over the chamber and issued a warning when Warren quoted a 28503 statement from the late Sen.
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When Bower, played by the eternally affable Topher Grace, appears as a character, he's found meditating alone at an unplugged retreat in the middle of the desert.
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Home Alone's massive success was a big break for Heard, whose affable, overworked McAllister dad — the perfect comedic counterpoint to McAllister mom, Catherine O'Hara — struck a chord.
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When you think of Animal House, you remember John Belushi as "Bluto" Blutarsky — but the story really centers on affable Tom Hulce's initiation into roaring college life.
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Bernard was throwing a party also attended by the dashing Nick (Golding), the affable Colin (Chris Pang), the pushy Eddie (Ronny Chieng), the ditzy Alistair (Remy Hii).
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" The 210-year-old animal rights activist is the sort of affable man forever doomed to be described by everyone he meets as a "really nice bloke.
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In that conversation, the affable late-night personality appeared to treat the presidential candidate — who was known for expressing xenophobic and misogynistic views — as just another guest.
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Still, no other club lays claim to the striking architecture of Craven Cottage, to football on the river, and to a fanbase quite as affable as theirs.
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The affable young man, nicknamed El Gordo, or the Fat Man, had turned 18 and was starting to feel anxious, with a constant sense of being pursued.
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Not surprisingly, Mr. Meyers asked most of the questions, and Mr. Cavett, extremely affable through the sarcasm, responded with the precision and glee of a seasoned storyteller.
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Michael Trent, who has known Gorsuch since they were 14, remembers his close friend as studious but affable, equally at home in the library stacks and outdoors.
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At first, Scott's affable charm makes Mr. Rooks easy to believe and root for, while Meester's brittle mean girl iciness makes her seem like a clear liar.
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The affable young fighter from Boucherville, Quebec has a rather quirky sense of humor, which stands out in a culture that often leans toward the overly earnest.
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It just feels like the kind of day to go out, take your pet ball for a walk, greet your neighbors, be affable, and score a goal.
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On a recent afternoon at Riverside Park in Manhattan, I met Dr. Horowitz and Finn (short for Finnegan), her affable, glossy black 9-year-old mixed breed.
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" Of Jerrauld Jones, one of the second pair of black boys to go to V.E.S., a Stouffer report said that he is "an affable, intelligent young boy.
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But black voters know Joe Biden, and they love him largely because of the goodwill he amassed as the affable wing man to our first black President.
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I'm wholly different and original and also affable and friendly when I'm with genuine unpretentious folk such as the old guys I play golf with every week.
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His effervescent personality has doubtlessly helped to distract people from the team's failings, with less affable managers afforded significantly less goodwill from commentators, columnists and fans alike.
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Faulkes is an affable guy with a ponytail, telltale tattoos half-hidden under his T-shirt sleeve, and a couple of silver goth rings on his fingers.
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Gregarious and affable, Spavor is a fixture in the small community of North Korea watchers, with analysts and journalists often seeking his rare insight into the country.
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He was considered hardworking and affable, the kind of man who coached his kids' sports teams and helped out his elderly neighbors and others who needed him.
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A counter that seats 19 surrounds the central open kitchen, where affable chefs trim, skewer, grill and season pieces of drumstick, gizzards, chicken breast and the like.
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Way before he was Neo, John Wick or even Hamlet, Keanu Reeves was Ted, an affable high school slacker with a best friend named Bill (Alex Winter).
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Yang, an affable 44-year-old who eschews neckties and traditional rhetoric, trails front-running candidates Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders by a wide margin.
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In other words, a fully realized human, and in many ways the opposite of the affable, jaunty portrayal by Gwyneth Paltrow in the still-charming 1996 adaptation.
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There Andrew and I met a young Frenchwoman studying food cultures at N.Y.U. and an affable tech professional who brought his sister who was visiting from India.
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Mr. Steyer was affable and loquacious; he spoke to me for nearly an hour about his interest in economic justice and his belief in grass-roots organizing.
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It's as if a chap who spent his early career as an honorary extraterrestrial has subsequently applied himself—with cub scout seriousness—to the role of affable earthling.
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Merely tolerated by his daughter, she drags him around various networking opportunities, not realizing her irreverent and affable father is more engaging to her clients than she is.
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Consider the case of 31-year-old Warda, an affable chef and divorced mother of three stuck living with her abusive and very conservative family in Gaza City.
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It is hard to reconcile the soft-spoken, affable father at ease in his living room, with the awkward, almost robotic campaigner Canadians have seen during this campaign.
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I'm covering a motivational class this week and it's a decent group; despite none of the prisoners having actually signed up for the course, they're mostly pretty affable.
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At 13, James Ragan was an affable, lanky, top-ranked junior tennis player in Texas, competing in Europe for the summer and dreaming of life as a pro.
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Credit for the team's glory goes to Glenn Lee, an affable electrical engineer who originally took a teaching job as a way to support himself through business school.
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MORE than seven months after the affable leader of Canada's Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau, became prime minister, there is no sign of an end to his political honeymoon.
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Mike's a stand-up guy, whose focus on safety and doing the right thing is only matched by his boss, Mr. Jimmy (Kurt Russell at his most affable).
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His affable, game-show-host looks and just-folks manner have been insidiously successful in blunting the impact of a past pocked with racism, Jew-hating and revisionisms.
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The Escape Campervans office, hidden in a fountain courtyard, was a closet-size room stacked with camping gear and staffed by an affable South African expat named Leon.
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He was affable and constantly conversing with anyone who happened by, from the club owners and star players to the workers sweeping up stray balls on the floor.
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Affable, jokey, and armed with numbers and statistics, Yang has managed to make all four Democratic debates, a feat that plenty of established candidates have failed to accomplish.
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Stuck in the middle is Mr. Byford, an affable Brit who is widely respected among rail experts and won praise in his previous job running Toronto's transit network.
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In a style reminiscent of Orwell, E. B. White and David Sedaris, an affable hero gamely bumbles through adventures rich with moments of fleeting profundity and moral reckoning.
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These are pleasurable, well-wrought essays, though they sometimes feel like a throwback to a time when we were more easily charmed by the affable straight white man.
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His mother's affable boyfriend (David Alan Grier) tells him about an opportunity to drive for a wealthy white man, Henry Dalton (Bill Camp), and he gets the job.
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Kraft can be an affable but cunning negotiator, and both his business and people skills were hard to miss in 2011 during negotiations over the collective bargaining agreement.
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A critical plank of this project has been a revival of the country's youth corps, headed by Mr. Hun Sen's youngest and most affable son, Mr. Hun Many.
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Eastwood's affable performance and unfussy, minimalist approach make the story motor along nice and easy, especially since no one seems concerned with the misery Earl blithely helps spread.
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Letitia Wright, so frisky and engaging in "Black Panther," likewise doesn't get much to do, but the chillingly affable Anozie makes the most of his minimal screen time.
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According to the owner of the academy, Buford Tune, who is also an instructor, Mr. Samson received his license and was affable and polite during his time there.
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Finish it off by entertaining the fantasy that the impossibly affable, sincerely compassionate former wrestler and voice behind your children's favorite animated movie might one day be president.
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"It's so beautiful there, and his mother is a very maternal person, and his father is so affable," said Mr. Shackett, who grew up in Windsor Locks, Conn.
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I had many interviews with the affable and sincere young Peter Tork (five years my senior), who was the bass player for the TV pop group, The Monkees.
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"No, they're quail," the affable waiter corrects, as he finishes stoking the bee smoker, which, he says, adds "a nice aromatherapy" to the radishes lit by fairy lights.
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Rob Reiner, trim and affable in charcoal-gray leisurewear that set off his more-salt-than-pepper beard, eyed the menu's caloric delights before ordering oatmeal and berries.
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Edwards remained affable and self-deprecating throughout his news conference, becoming emotional only when a reporter asked about his "Midwestern values" and his status as a role model.
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Brady, the affable former Ways and Means Committee chairman who is now ranking member, said he wasn't aware of Trump's idea to extend term limits for committee leaders.
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The fight to save Earth is fought instead by an ensemble, including an affable Russian cosmonaut who explains why his country prohibited alcohol in space, at least officially.
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She fights with her mother and her older brother, Miguel (Jordan Rodrigues), and leans on her father, Larry (Tracy Letts), an affable fellow with troubles of his own.
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Costache, a 34-year-old Romanian with a dimpled, affable face, previously worked at Google, where he helped build Gmail's multiple-inbox capability and various features of Google Maps.
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Despite Vance's mixed record on the job and the powerful public outrage sparked by October's revelations, the affable Ivy League Democrat remains relatively unencumbered in his path to reelection.
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Pearce plays a similar silent concerto when Cromwell's initially affable, suddenly villainous captain delivers the message: He registers a moment of confusion, then pushes it off and goes along.
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Tender and affable though the sendup was, the myth being evoked — that of the rugged individualist galloping to the world's rescue — remains as politically potent as any in America.
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Senators who met with Trump said they discussed a range of issues from immigration to tax policy and were impressed at how "genial" and "affable" he was in person.
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The two Guardians of the Galaxy films have already established a quartet of new heroes and stars, with yet another affable 30-something named Chris in the lead role.
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Last month Mr Scheer, a bland but affable former Speaker of the House of Commons, laid out an economic plan that was light on ideas but heavy on empathy.
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Instead of firing off a cease and desist, he opted for a more affable position, replacing some of his actual merch in his pop up with the bootleg pieces.
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Hall's performance as nice guy Dempsey is hilarious in its utter affectlessness, and the sense you get that something bizarre is happening beneath his affable but very dead eyes.
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The first full trailer for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a dramatization of Fred Rogers's story, capitalizes on our renewed nostalgic love for the affable, unexpected TV star.
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The show's source material is some pretty thin soup, viral segments wherein late night's most affable and least offensive host sings songs in a moving vehicle with famous people.
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LeBlanc is also a former Justice Department official and prosecutor par excellence, who is an affable professional and legal scholar with sterling credentials to rival any in the world.
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"This loft is natural for shooting reality TV, because of the high ceilings," McCarthy said, the severity of his all-black outfit and shaved head belying his affable manner.
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Although many commentators saw Eisenhower as an affable war hero who delegated his decisions to Cabinet officials, it turned out he played a much larger role than we knew.
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Andrew Johnston, the affable fan favorite known as Beef, carries a sand wedge that is covered with the names of various cuts of meat, like porterhouse, sirloin and brisket.
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In her therapy sessions, she is as magnetic and affable as Roberts has ever been; she draws out her patients' war memories simply by allowing her eyes to crinkle.
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For the last two years, Yang, who friends describe as an affable, jocular but academic figure, had been living in New York as a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
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His eight years as an affable, memeable vice president made him enormously popular with Democratic voters—and synonymous with a political period for which many voters are increasingly nostalgic.
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Because she is in Sweden without her parents, Widad has been assigned a legal guardian, Christer Jansson, an affable salesman for an oil company, to look after her interests.
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Nowadays, nary a bottle of Rush is to be found on the grounds, but it is full of affable bartenders who are determined to get me drunk before lunch.
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O'Neal is known for his affable nature and appearing in ads for everything from Comcast and Icy Hot balm to Radio Shack and Burger King during his playing days.
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Her public persona is affable and good-humored but one question is whether Democrats want a nominee to take the fight to Trump in a more aggressive way. 9.
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Remember during the campaign, when he managed to ruin the affable, bipartisan Al Smith dinner for Catholic charities by comparing himself to Jesus and suggesting Hillary Clinton hated Catholics?
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His time as president has revealed other, more affable and accessible, parts and pieces of him that may have been hidden from view during a rough and tumble primary.
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Her ambassador for this viewpoint is Jay Alabaster, an affable American journalist who lived in Japan for almost two decades and is clearly partial to Taiji and its people.
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So when the pilot aired in the fall of 2006, he was an affable white guy eating fruit bats in Chiang Mai and a beating frog's heart in Tokyo.
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Known for his calm manner and affable personality, Boone let his edge — and vocabulary — show in that argument about the strike zone with the home-plate umpire, Brennan Miller.
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"I wanted a normal American childhood," said Mr. Wiesel, 44, the affable and soft-spoken son of Elie Wiesel, the author, activist and Holocaust witness who died last year.
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The Broadway veteran Gregg Edelman makes an affable Dr. Voltaire, then quick-changes into Dr. Pangloss, the befuddled tutor to a quartet of students in the realm of Westphalia.
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The affable Fellowes, 42, founded HelloWallet in 2009 before selling it to investment research firm Morningstar in 2014 for more than $50 million and becoming Morningstar's Chief Innovation Officer.
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"There's this image of struggle and contradiction I'm interested in," said the affable, rangy 64-year-old artist, during a walk last month along part of the crawl route.
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An affable Long Island commuter who eschews the glamour of the television world, Mr. Shine also has strong supporters at Fox News, including some of the network's top personalities.
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Looking elsewhere for entertainment, we find an affable Billy Bob Thornton as a laid-back rehab regular, and a very touching Odessa Young as Lilly, James's fragile love interest.
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The Confronter: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Malcolm Turnbull, the affable Prime Minister of a longtime US ally, may have been the first world leader to directly confront Trump.
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In another, "Toll Booth Willie," Sandler plays an affable Mass Pike worker who, for reasons that go totally unexplained, is gratuitously insulted by every single motorist passing through Worcester.
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"Man of the Woods" posits Mr. Timberlake not as a sex-symbol soul supernova, but as an affable bro who enjoys the funk, soul and disco of the 1970s.
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It's a continuation of the affable Hulk we see in Endgame and a big departure from the first Avengers movie, when the Hulk was an unstable and angry hero.
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As a grumpy-yet-affable elderly Jewish socialist who wasn't actually a Democrat, Sanders struck members of the liberal establishment as the least-viable tribune of the party's insurgent wing.
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A marriage to the most affable man in the Wizarding world would obviously help her with social graces that she would otherwise not have the time or patience to nurture.
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Petty gradually aged into an affable elder statesman of rock music, though he kept a rebellious streak: 2002's The Last DJ was a caustic indictment of the music industry.
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The affable young athlete from Kingsport, Tennessee, who had struggled with an addiction to alcohol for years, believed he'd been given a second chance and immersed himself in his training.
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As Mary went through the coursework, she proved to be an affable and compelling teacher (especially given the dry subject matter), and the entire class stayed engaged for the duration.
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Tony Hudson (Will Badgett) — a father whose unseen wife attends to her mother upstate — is an affable canary fancier and small-scale landlord with a vacant garden apartment to rent.
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Facebook's main contribution to the party was a photo booth—it was provided by MVS Studio but sponsored by Facebook, according to the affable pair of women who ran it.
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The affable, hippopotamusesque little trolls adorn collectible mugs, confectionaries, linens and anything worth branding, but they are also a key part of their native Finland's national identity and cultural consciousness.
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And J.K. Simmons manages to be at once completely affable and also deeply sinister as Clyde, the right-hand man to seedy real estate mogul Big Dick Casablancas (David Starzyk).
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Contrary to his image as an eternally morose, dungeon-dwelling goblin creature, chatting with Norway's Mortiis (aka Havard Ellefsen) reveals him to be affable, open and eager to talk shop.
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Elfin, soft-spoken, plainly dressed in a black blouse and a long black skirt (with white sneakers peeping out from beneath the hem), Ozick was an affable and attentive presence.
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Imagine if, instead of picking the affable but ruthless Eisenhower to deal with our British ally, he had dispatched the blustery, hot-blooded George Patton, who had seniority over Ike.
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Their host's demeanor was no longer affable: When Fisaha inquired about the asylum process, his terse response was that it would be "impossible" for them to receive protection in Rwanda.
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Mr. Hollande, by all accounts an affable man with a penchant for sly humor, came into office in 2012 as a high-level party functionary with no particular ideological convictions.
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Rafe Khatchadorian (an affable Griffin Gluck), booted out of two educational institutions, is now enrolled at Hills Village Middle School, dominated by the pompous, rules-obsessed Principal Dwight (Andy Daly).
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Maxwell does a good job of letting the music speak for itself, but, as his affable onstage personality suggests, it's not for a lack of being fun to talk to.
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At the film's fringes is an affable Jimmy Buffett, a friend of Lingerie (played by Snoop Dogg), who is both Moondog's best friend and the guy sleeping with his wife.
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Blum looks and sounds a bit like a gentler, more affable version of the sports pundit Skip Bayless, with a long face, deep-set, probing eyes, and a slight frown.
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SATURDAY PUZZLE — Doug Peterson and Erik Agard must both be supremely affable, as their names are so often on collaborations, but this is the first Times grid they've collaborated on.
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Cops are thin on the ground but "we have eyes everywhere", says Franco Dei Rossi, an affable 68-year-old street painter who founded the group nearly three decades ago.
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Markos Chaidemenos, the affable owner of Canaves Oia, a luxury hotel in the village that offers guests maps of walking trails, was my unofficial guide on my two-hour walk.
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" Todd Grinnell, who plays the show's affable landlord, Schneider, noted the irony of being canceled by Netflix, "the place that usually saves the show that the network has cast aside.
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Katz is the straight man; he is mostly playing himself, an affable dude who loves his Chicago sports and could easily slide into the chair of any ESPN opinion show.
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I had AMIABLE before AFFABLE at entry K. All in all, a very nice mental tug-of-war with Ms. Cox and Mr. Rathvon, and I learned some new stuff.
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An affable, nerdy twenty-nine-year-old with a scruffy beard, Hargreaves grew up in rural Arkansas before going to Yale, where he ran intercollegiate computer-game tournaments called GoCrossCampus.
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Bill Shine, an affable Ailes loyalist who is well liked by some of the network's longest-serving anchors, is selected to oversee programming at Fox News and Fox Business Network.
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I walked back to the abstraction classroom and there had a disorienting, time's-accordion sensation that the instructor, an affable middle-aged man, looked familiar, though I couldn't say why.
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" Walsh was one of many Georgetown Prep alumni who signed a letter vouching for Kavanaugh's "sharp intellectual ability, affable nature, and a practical and fair approach devoid of partisan purpose.
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All it took to get there was a wise and affable Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and the enlightened leadership of President George H.W. Bush and the then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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"We're on their radar at all times," says Yuri, an affable man in his 50s who apologizes, frequently, for his near-perfect English, which he taught himself through the internet.
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It was small, with dark wood paneling and affable bartenders, located in the heart of town, and a convenient stumble away from a multitude of bars for the inevitable after-parties.
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Xila, as she is known to her fans in China, is affable and relaxed in front of the cameras, conducting interviews in impeccable Mandarin after living only two years in China.
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Riggio is affable, intelligent, and, at times, ruthless—Tom Hanks's character in You've Got Mail, lest we forget, is based in part on him—and he is synonymous with Barnes & Noble.
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"In the public arena he exploits at least the following masks: the rousing orator, the affable conversationalist, and the bumbling amateur," said Paul Chilton, professor emeritus of Linguistics at Lancaster University.
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The affable Mr. Bobin, who hit a home run with "The Muppets" but struck out with "Muppets Most Wanted," is the latest lesser-known director to benefit from Hollywood's franchise obsession.
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Bill Shine, an affable Ailes loyalist who is well liked by some of the network's longest-serving anchors, like Sean Hannity, will oversee programming at Fox News and Fox Business Network.
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That night, onstage in Minneapolis, he was garrulous and affable, and afterward ventured out onto the sidewalk to meet his hundreds-strong admirers, many of whom feel they know him intimately.
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Right at the start of the debate, Biden was also heard telling Harris, "Take it easy on me, kid" — a suboptimal choice of words, even if delivered in characteristically affable style.
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The series, now in its third season, offers charming vignettes of New Yorkers trying to get by with a little help from an affable weed dealer known only as The Guy.
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Ray, an affable man with a tight, gray ponytail, tells his version of the complex story of the Long Island Serial Killer with the command of a great conductor tackling Mahler.
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I'm not equating these two, but in films about criminals or serial killers, they often try to remind you that you might not spot a villain because they are so affable.
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His soft Southern drawl and affable manner betrayed his North Carolina roots and made him a beloved figure inside a giant media company often portrayed as slick and soulless by outsiders.
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He is known as affable, mild-mannered, even a little shy, and if this race were purely a choice between him and Mr. Modi, opinion polls show he would be trounced.
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Mr. Peterson is generally affable and chatty, however badly things are going, and sometimes he puffs on a pipe or sips red wine as he discusses various bizarre and humbling situations.
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A former basketball star (he stood 6-foot-8) as well as an affable academic, he focused as much on a life well lived as he did on his management theories.
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His final destination is the eden of Exposition Park, where men and women, arrayed in all-white outfits like apostles at the Last Supper, share a meal with an affable demon.
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The affable jock is there to meet his secret girlfriend — the deeply sardonic Chris (Madeleine Arthur), essentially his polar opposite — and wrongly assumes they are the only ones in the room.
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Mr. Daly has a natural air of affable professionalism — in other series and movies, he plays lots of doctors and school principals — but he combines that here with a churning torment.
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But none of that prepared the affable and lanky 23-year-old for playing alongside some of the best infielders in the game with Team Netherlands at the World Baseball Classic.
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While Ms. Bates is the affable and gregarious face of Empress Green, Mr. Landes caters to the bees in 20 colorful hand-painted hives on the roofs at the Stapleton development.
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On Tuesday he'll be on "The Late Late Show" with James Corden, who's always over-the-top affable with his guests — but more than willing to take shots at the president.
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Following the directions of the affable Mr. Young, viewers join in the percussion, experiencing firsthand the puzzling acoustical properties of the space and what a difficult instrument it is to play.
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"He is a brilliant, highly professional diplomat — affable, pleasant, unbelievably good at arms control and Russian-American relations for decades," said Sergei A. Karaganov, a periodic Kremlin adviser on foreign policy.
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An affable sheriff's deputy is peppering you with questions to which you have to respond while outside the window there is mounting evidence that the world is slipping off its axis.
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This dispirited version of Rampage has been building since he lost his UFC belt to Forrest Griffin, when the affable character with thick hardware-store chains around his neck became something darker.
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What Jerusha doesn't know is that Daddy, whose actual name is Jervis Pendleton, isn't so geriatric after all and that the affable impertinence of her letters has made him fall in love.
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He certainly remains ambitious abroad: his affable talk with Mr Trump of Franco-American military co-operation in the Middle East reflected his goal that France should be Europe's leading military power.
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Like, maybe there's an affable young Tom Hanks lookalike bookstore tycoon waiting for me with a golden retriever in Riverside Park, and maybe I have to find him on the internet, fast.
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In one-on-one conversations, the writer-director (and sculptor, painter, musician, and occasional weatherman) behind the singular movie masterpieces Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Dr. comes across as affable, even gregarious.
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The liquid goes down quick, and soon an affable waiter drops a fried chicken sandwich in front of D'Agostino, who is wearing a Swearin' T-shirt with the sleeves wisely scissored off.
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Over the years, those who have worked with Alexander in Silicon Valley describe him as an affable, peripatetic and endlessly energetic business development exec who delivers the goods no matter the cost.
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He's affable and relaxed, and it's easy, speaking to him, to forget that this is a man who used hammers, knives, and imitation guns to hold up bookies, building societies, and banks.
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Kavanaugh's affable demeanor during oral arguments at the court contrasted with his incensed testimony during televised confirmation hearings in Sept, 2018, when he accused Democrats of orchestrating a hit job against him.
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Affable, earnest and humanly scaled, "The Meddler" is the kind of entertainment that the studios used to supply by the boatload and that now tends to show up on the small screen.
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But then it occurred to me that perhaps this affable and entertaining gentleman was the person my father was always meant to be, or had possibly always been, albeit only with others.
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If any other first impression can be had, it's that he's almost too affable: Over the next two minutes, Kanter asks how I'm doing and/or if I'm good four separate times.
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Williams deserves a grand cinematic adventure of his own, and perhaps Mr. Jackson's comfortable, affable performance, which like the movie itself oscillates between seriousness and gentle comedy, will help make that case.
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His fight to be taken seriously in the face of hardened convention was captured in Michael Lewis's nimble book; in this film adaptation, Brad Pitt plays Mr. Beane with quiet, affable intensity.
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This Cher (last name Horowitz) is the central character of the affable but limp "Clueless, the Musical," which opened on Tuesday in a New Group production at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
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Tefft handles the daily business of buying, selling and trading books for store credit with the help of six employees and WonTon, the store's affable tuxedo cat, who freely patrols the place.
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The affable billionaire, who offers guests the best antipasti in town while they admire his latest wares, made that money by knowing his customers well and giving them exactly what they want.
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Why should I care when Anthony, in particular, gets away with his own disappearing acts because he is an affable and socially minded fellow who is especially adept at marketing his brand?
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But easygoing and low-key, with the playing of the pared-down, vibrato-limited orchestra an appealing mixture of long-lined silkiness and crisp textures, it had a kind of affable beauty.
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But easygoing and low-key, with the playing of the pared-down, vibrato-limited orchestra an appealing mixture of long-lined silkiness and crisp textures, it had a kind of affable beauty.
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A sloth walks into a bar mansion in pursuit of love with an affable virgin, and a girl holding a tray of Fiji water bottles captivates a nation with her smoldering smize.
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In this case we are in mid-1960s London, where a milquetoast teenager named Peter Noone (the appropriately affable, sweet-voiced Jonny Amies) is conquering the charts with his band, Herman's Hermits.
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Here, and throughout She's the Man, Tatum sells Duke's awkwardness with exactly the kind of affable and surprisingly vulnerable charm he ended up bringing to a similar character in 21 Jump Street.
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Somewhere between a playmate, an affable uncle or grandpa, and a fairy godfather, Rogers's slow and compassionate approach to children's television ran counter to what we typically expect of TV shows for kids.
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There is also something slightly lab-grown about him: he is affable, funny and handsome to precisely the right degree, which makes him seem less presidential than like an actor playing the president.
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Photograph by David Williams for The New Yorker It is sometimes said of small, informal restaurants with affable hosts that they call to mind the experience of being a guest in someone's home.
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An outgoing, affable man with tan skin and a broad smile, Rheaume speaks at length when he gets excited — which he often does when the conversation turns to the future of his company.
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Romano Carancini, the city's affable mayor from the center-left Democratic Party, spent the winter preparing a dossier called "Friendly Macerata" as part of a campaign to become Italy's 2020 capital of culture.
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Everett minds fame no more than anyone would, but the callow huckster figure some Chomskyans describe is actually a low-key, affable, intellectually omnivorous person, simply eager to share things he finds fascinating.
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Ken Berry, the boyish television actor who played nice guys with affable attitudes and a wide range of I.Q.s on three popular sitcoms between 1965 and 1990, died on Saturday in Burbank, Calif.
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The fourth wall is periodically broken, most often by an affable everyman narrator (Jesse Plemons) whose connection to the main character turns out to be one of the few surprises in the plot.
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After prolonged silence between the two countries, Trump had an affable phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and during that call he conceded on One China by agreeing to observe the policy.
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Nevertheless, "All the Rage" overrides most of its shortcomings by keeping a breezy tone and by showing Dr. Sarno to be a convincing speaker, as well as an affable and somewhat crusty character.
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He was relaxed, affable — or maybe that was just the protective camouflage working — and he had the bags under his eyes that are the go-to accessory for the father of a newborn.
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Joe, an affable bear of a man (Kyle Chandler, in flashbacks), had had congestive heart failure for a long time, so his death, while wrenching and sad, could not have been entirely unexpected.
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He brought an affable, unpretentious style to the job, consistent with his own down-to-earth personality and his sense that museums needed to lose some of their stuffiness to attract new audiences.
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Brokaw was already a brave, affable person, one who could look Vladimir Putin in the eye for an interview or go back to work after being the intended victim of an anthrax attack.
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" – Alexander Hamilton , Federalist No. 203 TIME OUT: 'NO MISTAKES, JUST HAPPY ACCIDENTS' New Yorker: " Bob Ross 's affable demeanor, easy smile, and encouraging bits of painting wisdom won't impress any fine-art M.F.A. grads.
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That's the proposed Freedom Dividend, a rebranded Universal Basic Income at the heart of the long-shot presidential campaign of Andrew Yang, an affable young entrepreneur and new favorite among the Reddit politics crowd.
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Although Tyler seems to thrive in his new life on Discovery, and his role as security chief, even starting a romance with Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), his scars persist beneath his affable surface.
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Affable and poised, Moreno opened up about his writing process in and outside of his main band as well as the joys and pitfalls of making music with your friends as a day job.
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To make matters worse, rain clouds had prevented me and my affable guide Iván from making it to the peak, and I accidentally smashed my iPhone to smithereens after dropping it on volcanic rock.
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As I have often stated, Comey is an affable and amiable gentleman and one must trust — I guess — that his heart is pure and his haphazard efforts as FBI director were earnest and sincere.
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Once Jack and Ellie cut a demo (with an affable engineer played by Alexander Arnold), "Yesterday" expands into a gentle satire of the music industry wrapped in a mellow retelling of the Faust legend.
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Chasten Buttigieg is significant to the gay community in much the same way Michelle Obama is to African-Americans — an affable and charismatic political spouse who affirms his husband's commitment to his minority identity.
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She is smiling slightly and regarding the manicured garden in peaceful contemplation, or perhaps so she will not inadvertently make affable eye contact with a gawking visitor and embolden them to invite themselves over.
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Not that he would, but Marc-Andre Fleury, one of the league's more affable and beloved players, can flaunt his pedigree by holding up three fingers: one for each Stanley Cup he has won.
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Mr. Corden, an affable, musically inclined late-show personality with a history in theater and television, hosted the music industry's awards ceremony for the first time in 2017; the show drew 26 million viewers.
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There's a postage stamp commemorating Fred Rogers, the show's affable host; a star-powered PBS special; a documentary; and coming later this year, a Rogers biography and a biopic starring Tom Hanks as Rogers.
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Tall, affable and energetic, he was picked to run General Electric in 2001 after an interminable and mildly sadistic selection process run by GE's then CEO, Jack Welch, at the time America's most celebrated boss.
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He's a 6-foot-6, affable, 38-year-old former minor league baseball player making his way around the 39 counties in Iowa's 4th District in a Winnebago that serves as a mobile campaign billboard.
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Among us was an affable 13-year-old Swiss-German man, who had had a stroke decades ago that left his legs virtually useless; scuba enabled him to experience the extraordinary freedom that water confers.
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Played by Bradley Whitford — continuing his recent streak of playing affable-looking white dudes who turn out to be evil — Joseph is the architect of Gilead's economic policy, but he's oddly cosmopolitan for a Commander.
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Ted Cruz in deep red Texas, it was a huge win for Democrats and progressives looking for a successor to President Barack Obama: a charismatic, affable candidate able to excite young voters and grassroots activists.
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"I'm in Love" suggests they haven't lost a step since the halcyon days of Bandwagonesque: it's got a jangling lead, a hyper-romantic lyric, and an affable guitar solo, all crammed into under three minutes.
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Generally seen as a friendly club with a modest, affable, disproportionately middle-class fanbase, a trip to Craven Cottage was widely considered to be one of the most genial away days in the top flight.
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"He doesn't strike me as an affable, knock-around kind of guy, but he's fair, smart and very well respected," said Steven Brounstein, a veteran defense lawyer who has appeared before the justice several times.
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This is a place where Faygo, a Detroit-made soda pop, is on the menu, and where affable waiters will inform you that Michigan grows sugar beets 50 out of 52 weeks of the year.
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David Wain's 2014 rom-com parody They Came Together opens with Joel (Paul Rudd) and his partner Molly (Amy Poehler) having dinner with another affable-yet-typical couple, Kyle (Bill Hader) and Karen (Ellie Kemper).
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As per usual, Drake's ability to find the pulse of internet culture plays a part, and becoming mutuals with one of streaming's biggest names is the kind of affable cross-branding he's incredibly good at.
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Mr. Attell, the affable grouch from Comedy Central's "Insomniac," cut his teeth on New York's open mike circuit, which means he's equal parts a comic's comic and remarkably comfortable onstage with a mike in hand.
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Peggy Kinstler said her husband, though affable in the studio, had been confident in his skills even if the subject was prickly or controlling, as was the case with James Schlesinger, Nixon's secretary of defense.
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Instead I know just as much about him at the end of the episode as I did at the beginning: He's generally affable, he loves his family, and he wants to be reunited with them.
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Her characters aren't young or laconic—on the contrary, Chris is a nerdy, affable rambler whose letters to Dick range over such subjects as the paintings of R. B. Kitaj and labor strikes in Guatemala.
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"From the very beginning of his military career, Smith argues persuasively, Eisenhower was a shrewd political operator who concealed his acumen and ambition behind an affable facade," Wendy Smith wrote in The Los Angeles Times.
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"Tips are like hugs without all the touching," a sign reads at the entrance, where affable hostesses beckon you in, past floor-to-ceiling windows through which twinkle the lights of the George Washington Bridge.
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I had no idea if any of this was true, but they related these somber events of both the physical and the supernatural worlds with expressions of affable certainty that proved to be alarmingly infectious.
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He is an affable man who smiles readily, listens empathetically, speaks with long, engaging digressions that invariably circle around to arrive at a sharp point, and enjoys close friendships with many people around the world.
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Trained as a public administrator, Seehofer worked his way up through the ranks of the CSU, benefiting from his affable manner with voters by embodying much of the "joie de vivre" on which Bavarians pride themselves.
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But Trump was also at times enthusiastic and affable, exchanging embraces and handshakes with fellow leaders, posing for photographs in front of a NATO military band and mingling at a summit dinner in a Brussels museum.
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The show is loosely anchored around Josh's quest to find his would-be girlfriend Sam Dean (Sophie Simnett), the affable British classmate he hasn't seen since the nuclear bomb detonated during their school's homecoming football game.
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Along with a partner, Lance Gilman, an affable businessman whose uniform consists of cowboy hats, crocodile-skin boots and turquoise jewellery, purchased the land that now forms the TRI for $20m from Gulf Oil in 1998.
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") Cruise is a remarkable talk-show guest—maybe the best there is in 2018: Affable, genuinely funny, and seemingly down for anything (even a bit in which he's asked to repeatedly yell "Show me the Mummy!
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For one thing, Trump doesn't bank on the "professional common man" folksiness that Windrip exudes — it was George W. Bush, the favored Windrip analogue before him, who played up his image as an affable Texas cowboy.
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While he does not have a reputation on the Hill as a dealmaker, lawmakers, aides and lobbyists describe him as affable and a good communicator who is respectful in his dealings with both friend and foe.
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But gruff New York street smarts never go out of style, and French Montana, a smart and affable personality with great connections and a greater sense of humor, will always find a way to get paid.
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Mahinda is barred from running for president again, and is on the stump for Gotabaya, bringing an affable touch to the campaign against the rather gruff manner of his brother, more known for his military machismo.
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The affable 240-year-old was midway through his third mayoral term after being initially installed by the Board of Supervisors as a "caretaker" mayor based upon his explicit pledge that he would not run again.
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" Pompeo has won over colleagues with his affable demeanor, which was on display during a wide-ranging interview with The Hill in his Capitol office, where he used phrases like "goodness gracious" and "for goodness sake.
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Krenn, who is white, remembered Johnson as an affable if slightly disheveled soldier who got along with his peers of all races during nine weeks of basic training at the Fort Sill, Oklahoma, base in 2009.
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Though this is not technically a podcast about theater, Tennant — an affable and charismatic host — draws out unique insights about the mind-set of being a performer, most notably in Ian McKellen's fascinating and revealing episode.
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Since its debut in 123, Bell's podcast has offered a weekly deep dive into his reimagining of Christian faith, delivered in an affable stream-of-consciousness style that feels like a window directly into Bell's brain.
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Our guide, Aaron, had an affable, mountain man sensibility, and did a nice job leading our group on a three-hour tour through the patches of spartina, or cordgrass, that grew in the brackish marsh water.
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But employees were surprised when Mr. Krieger, an affable, widely liked figure inside the company, voiced his clear dissent against Facebook leadership in meetings and on company message boards, according to four current and former employees.
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The movie is chilling not because De Niro plays Frank as an icy, remorseless killer, but because he's an affable company man, proud of his union appreciation dinner, and he also happens to kill without remorse.
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For being one of the greatest rappers to ever do it, his energy very affable and doesn't seem to be too concerned with the fact that he's one of the greatest rappers to ever do it.
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This is a slight but affable piece in which he makes a range of whistle and click noises as he becomes birdlike before our eyes — often in wading steps with torso bent forward toward the floor.
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The rare public appearance of Kim, waving and smiling to onlookers, adds to the more affable image of the young leader that has emerged since his summit in April with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in.
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The joy in Mahnke's podcast is often in putting the puzzle pieces together; his bemused, affable delivery makes it fun to pick apart the pieces that have led to some of our best-known myths and legends.
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Full of affable humility, Martinez went down to the police station, presented himself as just a loving father visiting his daughter from California, and swore that Romero had been with him at the time of the murder.
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In her mildly overheated office, the professor was affable and friendly as she answered questions while law students entered her office intermittently as they prepared for a panel discussion coincidentally titled "Mythbusting Intersectionality" scheduled for that evening.
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It's an affable effects movie, mostly about the fantasy of being in the know about "the truth of the universe," as Molly puts it, and about facing down aliens with spy-hard skills and giant shiny guns.
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In the studio or reporting on the road — he often traveled 21990,260 miles a year for "22009 Minutes" — Mr. Safer was an affable interviewer, asking questions the man in the street might if he had the chance.
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But fate put the affable Lower Mainlander on the radar of Montreal Expos executive Jim Fanning, who, in 1984, offered Walker $1,500 to sign, and shipped him to Utica, New York, and then to Florida for instruction.
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Even Rodriguez's acclaimed run as a postseason baseball analyst with FOX Sports—during which he was affable, intelligent, and downright likeable—has not taken him to a place where he can be viewed as authentic, per se.
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The latest contender, with plenty of food that's smoked, foraged and fermented, is the work of Gabriel Hedlund, a Michelin-starred chef from Denmark, and his partner, Mathias Kaer, with the affable Allan Jensen managing the place.
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Bill Daily, the television actor known for playing goofily affable and warmhearted pals on "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Bob Newhart Show," died on Tuesday at his son's home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 91.
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The affable New York-based chef and restaurateur, who recharged the Harlem dining scene with his restaurant Red Rooster in 2010, recently opened its first outpost, Red Rooster Shoreditch, along with the taqueria Tienda Roosteria, in London.
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Affable and driven by childlike wonder, Mr. del Toro had been familiar to American audiences for years before he captured the academy's affection in 2006, with his lauded "Pan's Labyrinth," one of his fairy tales for adults.
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A more moderate establishment figure, he was different from Lam in key ways: affable, too Westernized in Beijing's view (went to MIT and Harvard, likes French movies), too laid-back and conciliatory (Beijing needs a tougher proxy).
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It's too bad and it's frustrating, because the two leads make appealing company: The round-faced Chapman brings loose, affable charm to his role, while MacKay, a talented actor who's all sharp angles, primarily delivers reactive intensity.
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The affable 30-year-old might be making his Presidents Cup debut but he is no stranger to representing his country having acquitted himself well, albeit in a losing cause, against Europe at last year's Ryder Cup.
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Spicer's post-administration behavior has seen him try to distance himself from the lies he told while working for Trump; to present himself as a good, affable guy; to paint himself as a victim of unfair scrutiny.
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Instantly, Owens — who played the Huxtables' affable son-in-law Elvin on the show from 21 to 33 and is still a working actor — found himself at the center of a complicated conversation about low-wage labor.
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Kavanaugh moves to the Supreme Court after spending 12 years as a judge on the influential U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, where he built a conservative judicial record and a reputation for being affable and well-prepared.
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Many of Mr Franken's colleagues had stood by him, as more women came forward with stories of gropes and unwanted touches, because they liked the affable former comedian and believed in his talent as policymaker and fund-raiser.
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The usually affable Morris was more pointed than angry, and admittedly a little wound up since he stumbled over his words a couple of times and finally interrupted an answer to say he was just talking too fast.
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" But, she adds: "What was news to me and blew my mind in the documentary was the footage of Simpson during his football career and sportscasting career showing how affable, how charming, generous and self-effacing he was.
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Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are adjusting to their new lives as affable exes, but the actress' Miracles from Heaven costars say that even during the darkest days of their split, the actress kept it professional on set.
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Pinegrove, "Aphasia": I've totally fallen for Cardinal, the debut LP from New Jersey quintet Pinegrove: it's full of affable, warm alt-country and thoughtful, open-hearted rock music, and the band flips between the two modes with ease.
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Schulz, an affable 54-year-old French engineer, began his career at one of Airbus's founders, France's former state-owned Aerospatiale, before working at aerospace supplier Goodrich via a stint at two French airlines: UTA and Air Liberte.
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She's a bright, affable American who dominates her corner of the sport with the kind of predictability and grace that draws in casual viewers, awes the experts, and inspires a lot of super-slo-mo check-that-out.
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Both public screenings of the film on Friday night drew standing ovations and cheers, though Toronto's generally affable, often easy to please crowds cannot be considered predictive of what reception awaits the film's wide release on Oct. 7.
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He was good looking, he was charming, he was affable, he was hard-working, he was everything MMA and the UFC needed him to be at that time: a cage-fighter who didn't look or sound the part.
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A combination of the then-futurist set, the affable Tarrant, and the astronomical promise of a million pounds—a prize never before imagined on a television show—made it the perfect premise for the precipice of the millennium.
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Why would they swap 225-year-old Drummond, who is under contract for the next three years and by all accounts an affable personality, for 22018-year-old Cousins, with his expiring deal and overly demonstrative emotional temperament?
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Much as Bozza used to play up to the British tabloids with his playboy persona and party lifestyle, he has cultivated a lighthearted image in his career as a pundit and generally presents himself as an affable joker.
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That Trump has found a more affable pen pal in Kim Jong Un than in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks both to his determination in developing "chemistry" with global strongmen and the dire state of Washington's political discourse.
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But perhaps the inspiration for Mr. Garcia's previous affable bums had always been the old Jimmy Buffett: the kind of ne'er do well who grapples with living a life of purpose while not wanting to work very hard.
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"I didn't decide to move to Tangier so much as I just dribbled into it," says Jonathan Dawson, an affable 67-year-old Englishman who has divided his time over the last two decades between Morocco and Spain.
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Ms. Crawford, affable yet matter-of-fact, put a handful of milled grain on a screen in a shoebox-size, weathered wood box, shut it and shook it — 50 times up and down, 50 times side-to-side.
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Unmoored by Dina, Sydney strikes up a mutual sarcasm pact with Stanley (Wyatt Oleff), an affable weirdo and extremely small-time pot dealer who becomes her would-be boyfriend and, as her powers reveal themselves, self-appointed sidekick.
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Scene Stealers LOS ANGELES — When it comes to Hollywood reincarnations, this one may top them all: Chuck Woolery, the affable, unflappable, Everyman host of 1980s-era game shows like "Love Connection," re-emerged as … a right-wing podcaster?
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Fiasco Theater — whose affable "Twelfth Night, or What You Will" opened on Thursday night at the Classic Stage Company — is to the thickets of Shakespeare what your favorite high school math teacher was to the complexities of calculus.
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Yet Monninger's affable prose offers distinct seductions ("the subway station smells like panting") and the platitudinous love affair ("Jack took me to bed in the late afternoon and devoured me") is spiced with sharp repartee and social criticism.
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He became famous for starting a white student union at Towson University, and was called the "affable, youthful face of hate in America" after he pushed a Black Lives Matter protestor at a Trump rally and got sued.
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Satoshi Ishii Always a fun fighter to watch and totally affable as a person, witnessing Heath Herring walk to the ring for the second time since an eight-year hiatus is like rekindling a friendship with an old acquaintance.
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After what has been a mostly affable Democratic campaign, Biden's team pulled off the gloves and targeted Buttigieg with a withering digital ad that pits Biden's decades of experience in public life against that of the two-term mayor.
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Rogowsky is an affable comedian who seems like the kind of person who would get the class clown superlative in high school and has been lovingly named "Quiz Daddy" by his HQties (Rogowsky's snarky name for the game's players).
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Mr. Hastert's affable persona and the odd circumstances that thrust him into the speakership — a surprise resignation at a moment of crisis and the lack of alternative consensus candidates — kept expectations low and helped insulate him from harsh criticism.
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There's another question to be asked that Ryan probably can't answer: how or why does someone who's so affable default to such a grim world view, "barely checking his emails," and rarely speaking to his bandmates in between touring?
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The day after Apostrof ended, Tokarczuk was having lunch at an Indian restaurant in Warsaw with her partner of eleven years, Grzegorz Zygadło, an affable man in his late forties with worried eyes and a scruff of dark hair.
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Inside was the affable representative in charge, Aziz Ahmad, as well as an official rubber stamp, a printer and a photocopier — all of which would prove common in official spaces here, even where electricity was scarce and heat spotty.
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Pecknold is a natural conversationalist and extremely affable, but when it comes to personal or spiritual questions, he's patient with himself in finding answers—and if there's none to be found, he says so without a hint of annoyance.
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Now clean, he is living in New Jersey, dealing with corrupt police brass and getting a new partner, Paddy Sheehan (Christopher McDonald), an affable gambling addict whose wife (Jennifer Ehle), a TV news anchor, strikes sexual sparks with Babs.
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For American fans, Mr. Ovechkin's embrace of Mr. Putin has already proved uncomfortable, forcing some to reconcile their idol's support for a government seen as hostile to national interests with Mr. Ovechkin's image as an affable regional man-child.
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Plumb, who lives an insular existence with her father (Andy Buckley), is training with her best friend (Rebecca Friday) when she takes a shine to Sawyer (an affable, understated Chase Offerle), who works at a bakery on their route.
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Kate Winslet would be a big enough name to entice producers, and Carey Mulligan has the affable charm to effortlessly step into the role -- but we're going slightly more off-beat and picking Tilda Swinton to take the reins.
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Cipollone's allies say he runs the counsel's office — the "most important law firm in the world" — as an affable leader who is a good listener, said Alan Dershowitz, a friend of the president's and member of his legal team.
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The affable Messer was the starting middle linebacker and captain of the football team at clubby Wabash, which has produced an unusual number of Indiana politicians for its size, while the hard-charging Rokita worked at the student newspaper.
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Stenek, an affable, big-smiling guy with a wiry beard and a kettlebell figure, told the students about the greenhouse effect -- how pollution, mostly from fossil fuels, hangs around in the atmosphere and acts like a blanket, heating the planet.
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And she's in very good company: There's the always welcome presence of Firth's Darcy, an affable new love interest in Dempsey and scene-stealing franchise newcomers Solemani and Emma Thompson (who also co-wrote the BJB screenplay) as Bridget's doctor.
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"There's a tendency now to talk about Joe Biden as the sort of affable if inappropriate uncle, as loudmouth and silly," Naomi Murakawa, author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America, told the Marshall Project in 2015.
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Soon enough, plucky witch Tina (Katherine Waterston) takes him to the Magical Congress to answer for his lax attitude toward keeping magic under wraps, most notably by neglecting to wipe the memory of affable non-wizard baker Jacob (Dan Fogler).
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"There's a tendency now to talk about Joe Biden as the sort of affable if inappropriate uncle, as loudmouth and silly," Naomi Murakawa, author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America, told the Marshall Project in 2000.
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Duke plays Gabe as an affable dork, trying to jolly his family along with lame dad jokes and an upbeat affect, but he turns his own double, "Abraham," into a wordless, baffled beast, suffering and dangerous at the same time.
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First making waves as affable dad, Hal on Malcolm in the Middle and Dr. Tim Whatley on Seinfeld, Cranston drew worldwide acclaim playing high school teacher – turned drug kingpin, Walter White, for which he won numerous awards including four Emmys.
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Whether Cruz was making a personal connection to this audience in Boone — whether they truly liked the messenger and not just his message, whether they saw in him the affable Reagan to whom he invited comparison — was difficult to judge.
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At the starting gate: Clinton leads Trump by double-digits Moreover, as Clinton has struggled to excite the Democratic base, it's far from clear that Kaine -- a mild-mannered and affable 58-year-old -- would be able to do just that.
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A few years ago, though, the company tasked Maxime Thouvenin — a soft-spoken but affable Frenchman who was rising through the ranks of design studio Kiska — with reaching back into the past to pull Husqvarna's street bike legacy into the future.
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Matthews, Marchese writes, has always been "polarizing," but through some combination of Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird—which featured The Dave Matthews Band's music prominently—and the South Africa-born singer's affable and memeable public persona, perceptions have started to shift.
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A key startup advocate is the affable João Vasconcelos, the former head of Startup Lisboa, who has long championed the scene and is now in a key position of power as the new secretary of industry within the Portuguese government.
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This time around, you begin your career in Formula 2, in the midst of a friendly rivalry with your fictional teammate, the affable and serious Lukas Weber, and a more combative rivalry with the arrogant, sneering, and also fictional Devon Butler.
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For the long-serving director general, who will turn his downtown Montreal corner office packed with sporting memorabilia over to Olivier Niggli later this month, it is the harsh Canadian winters the affable New Zealander has used to mark time.
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Tools of the trade include ballistic vests, pepper spray, Tasers, handguns and, for some jobs, a shotgun loaded with a beanbag that "folds you up like a newspaper", says Mike "Animal" Zook, an affable bounty-hunter in Spirit Lake, Idaho.
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He's made snotty punk as part of Test Icicles and affable country-rock as Lightspeed Champion; he's written and produced some of this decade's best left-of-center pop singles alongside artists like Solange, Sky Ferreira, and Carly Rae Jepsen.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For 255 years, they seemed made for each other: affable, glad-handing "Mayor Pat," and this city, North Carolina's largest and a place long defined more by entrepreneurial hustle and economic success than ideology and hard-edge politics.
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"[Pompeo] is a very affable guy, he gets along with people, he's a team builder — I think Pompeo will quickly be one of the go-to guys for the president-elect," said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).
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Oscar Brand, the lanky, affable, gravelly-voiced folk singer and songwriter whose weekly on-air hootenanny was the longest-running radio show in history with a single host, died on Friday at his home in Great Neck, N.Y. He was 240.
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Last summer, while working on an aborted profile of Mr. Felder — an affable, quotable legislator — he and I drove around his district, which he long said was better served by his working with the opposing party than his fellow Democrats.
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In a pop taxonomy of black male nobility, he is cut squarely from the mold of Barack Obama — generally cool-blooded, affable, devoted to unglamorous fundamentals — a figure whom he is doubtlessly on a shortlist to portray in an inevitable epic.
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The scene, on its face, might not have been surprising a year ago: Joe Biden — appraised among Democrats as a decent man and affable sidekick to the party's most popular figure — racking up primary victories and having fun talking about it.
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Wearing a baseball cap emblazoned with tiny images of Andy Warhol in drag, Mr. Bratton had the air of an affable tourist guide whose expertise just happened to be coffee shops that were once pornographic film stores and leather sex shops.
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Brown is an affable man, seemingly unburdened and not embittered by having been fired three times as a head coach (twice in Cleveland), despite only one losing season — excluding a 1-4 start before his release by the Lakers in 13.
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But his friends all cite an affable, ingratiating personality that has earned him allies throughout the Trump administration, notably including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Mr. Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, both of whom supported his appointment.
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His central foursome is never less than affable, but the backchat among the characters lacks the binding ease of Murray and the gang, and the women often perk up when they turn away from one another to bounce off lesser characters.
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In "ETM: Double Down" (at the Joyce, April 26-May 1), the virtuosic footwork of Dorrance and her affable company, Dorrance Dance, triggers digitally produced sounds, bringing the rhythms of metal-tipped shoes into the age of electronic dance music.
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So secretive that it will not disclose the names of its members, but headed by the persistently visible and often affable Mr. Meadows, the roughly three dozen members of the group have positioned themselves as the House's guardians of conservatism.
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It was the Invisible Man, but instead of looking like himself—a gruff-but-affable homeless veteran telling stories—he'd pulled a blanket up around his head and shoulders and huddled beneath it, bugging his eyes out and holding a cup.
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But the fact that he was nominated for Best Director, and the telecast's frequent close-ups of his affable, smiling face at the front of the crowd, indicate that he's not on the outs with the cool kids of Hollywood anymore.
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Back in 2000, during the first internet boom, Conetto knew an affable guy named Tony Thomas who'd sunk a lot of money into a startup that now needed a whole lot more money if Thomas ever wanted to get his initial investment back.
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That if the old, affable white guy became the Democratic nominee he would save us all, because once he is elected things will go back to normal, civil rights will advance apace and the systemic racism that impedes black progress will be addressed.
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That was Barlow—whether you were a world-famous avatar of LSD, a stuffy CEO, or the Vice President of the United States, he would win you over with his affable demeanor, arresting observations, and a mordant take on the human condition.
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The release of "Trumped Up Cards" in the fall of 2016 marked a new turn for the affable, pensive Hoffman, who soon embarked on something of a media blitz, including a rare appearance on the "The Daily Show" to tout the game.
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He's a strange mixture of things: a guarded, old-fashioned R&B artist in a genre in which specific, confessional lyrics and vulnerability are prized; an affable celebrity with outspoken, politically progressive views; a man whose quiet arrogance doesn't activate obvious asshole alarms.
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Positioned, as he was, as the affable veep to an immensely popular president, the veteran of three previous bids for the Democratic nomination assumed a presidential primary was just a way to garner free media until the main event, the general election.
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The classic action comedy about trucking and boozing came in second only to Star Wars in terms of 1977's year-end box office, and solidified Reynolds's image as an affable-yet-roguish good ol' boy, equal parts charm and rugged masculinity.
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Darren Criss is so scary in Versace, putting on and removing Andrew Cunanan's many masks — affable, gay up-and-comer, heterosexual fashionisto, stone cold killer – on a second-by-second basis solely rooted in whatever suits him best in a precise moment.
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Nicknamed the Southern Gentleman for his affable manner and stylish mode of dress, Mr. James was best known for his 1956 hit, "Young Love," a romantic ballad accompanied by acoustic guitar and doo-wop harmonies that topped the country and pop charts.
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On the evening of August 22015, 22014, after a day spent enjoying the Italian summer with his fiancée at a beach near Genoa, Cristian Provvisionato, a stocky 216-year-old bodyguard with an affable look, noticed he'd missed a call from his boss.
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Affable behind closed doors, Barrow has kept his thoughts to himself in front of the cameras in Brussels and made no exception on Wednesday, ensuring the voice of Britain on the great day was that of Theresa May in the House of Commons.
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On the evening of August 13, 2015, after a day spent enjoying the Italian summer with his fiancée at a beach near Genoa, Cristian Provvisionato, a stocky 42-year-old bodyguard with an affable look, noticed he'd missed a call from his boss.
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There are two movies about ballet companies, two about high schools, two about domestic violence, and one that bears the Warholian title of "Meat" (1976) and demonstrates how the affable beast in the pasture winds up as the chilly slab that you grill.
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An affable man who liked things to be big and shiny and new, he had little interest in sectarian fighting, but perhaps even less in preserving the essence of what many people had long regarded as the Middle East's most alluring city.
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Yet Taylor's affable social-media presence humanizes him, making it possible to watch the show without believing that he's truly a sociopath; he mostly dotes on his girlfriend, his dog, his friends and the brands that hook him up with free stuff.
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Kaine has his virtues — he is solid and affable, a solid liberal from the crucial state of Virginia — but this is not the sort of pick that taps into the progressive populism sweeping the party or the expansive diversity that constitutes the party.
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His district, encompassing Bakersfield, is one of California's most conservative regions, and McCarthy's fundraising prowess, affable demeanor, and ability to keep his California Republican colleagues in lockstep with the party has carried him far with his constituents and in the national GOP.
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An affable presence just outside of camera range (and the director of "My Architect," about his father, Louis Kahn), the filmmaker chats with curators and critics, painters and auction-house executives — an impressive cross-section of players with differing stakes in the game.
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" Mr. Walsh, a bank executive in Virginia, was one of scores of Georgetown Prep alumni who signed a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders vouching for Judge Kavanaugh's "sharp intellectual ability, affable nature, and a practical and fair approach devoid of partisan purpose.
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The affable 38-year-old Yorkshireman, who is to unveil his spring 2020 collection — described as "a paean to the last gasp of British florals and tweeness in the early 1990s" — at London Fashion Week Men's on Saturday, started his label in 2015.
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He was met yesterday by Prime Minister Theresa May, not the most affable of humans, as we well know, and the two were caught on camera doing their usual bizarre fumbling, resulting in yet another ass-clenching photo of them holding hands.
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Whether or not you're a fan of McCarthy's Spicer impression — or even a fan of McCarthy herself — it's easy to see the basic appeal of a skit that succeeds on the basis of putting its affable guest star through a little lighthearted humiliation.
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After a six-month slog versus Ms. Nixon, Mr. Cuomo now faces a less than 60-day sprint of a general election against the Republican, Marcus J. Molinaro, the affable Dutchess County executive who was once the youngest mayor in the nation.
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The president seems like an affable, charming man, at once comfortable in his own skin and oddly detached from his surroundings, with a ready supply of quips, quotations and anecdotes to defuse whatever tension or discomfort might be hovering in the air.
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My favorite improbable contender, though, involves a jockey rather than a trainer or a horse: Rajiv Maragh, the affable Jamaican rider who shattered his ribs and eight vertebrae at Belmont in 2015 when his mount, Yourcreditisgood, tripped and landed on top of him.
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Edgar was a sweetheart and always aimed to please on You're The Worst, so this role of Living With Yourself's Dan, who is absolutely not a very nice person, is a bit of a departure from the affable characters Borges usually plays.
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The rebukes appeared part of Kim's efforts to mimic his popular, affable late grandfather, Kim Il Sung, in creating a bond between the leader and the people, said Michael Madden, a North Korea leadership expert at the Stimson Center's 38 North website.
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Meanwhile, back in real life, an affable Disney Channel star like Jake Paul can unintentionally turn his neighborhood into a metaphorical war zone, and vicious criminal pranks get carried out with a lighthearted thoughtlessness that's almost scarier than the Calypso Twins' overt sadism.
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The eight principal cast members — who also include Matt Doyle, Betsy Morgan, Duncan Smith, Alex Finke, Joseph Taylor and that affable Broadway veteran Brad Oscar — all sing adequately, if not ravishingly, move with shadowy stealth and make synchronized percussive use of cutlery.
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Affable, experienced and well liked by clients, Mr. Solomon has a leg up in the succession race whenever the bank's chief executive, Lloyd C. Blankfein, leaves — as, of course, does the other co-president, Harvey M. Schwartz, Goldman's former chief financial officer.
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When I first contacted Mr. Blythe, in November, informing him of my intention to write about OnlyFans, he was affable as could be for a man with no intention of disclosing the names of his clients, much less submitting them to an interview.
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By addressing these concepts in the roundtable format, the web series becomes valuable twofold: Chinese Americans get to see these kinds of affable discussions about stereotypes in the US that happen so often behind closed doors, with close friends, but never are captured on screen.
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One veteran casino industry source, who has known him for over a decade, said he last met the affable, portly Kim at the Four Seasons Hotel in Macau last month, when he was eating cake and having a drink in the lobby coffee shop.
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In the fictional 1880s of novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, London was confronted with the strange case of the affable, capable Dr. Henry Jekyll, who periodically used a potion to transform himself into Mr. Hyde, a beast whose personality expressed the good doctor's darkest instincts.
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It seems far too hard to tell a story about Mister Rogers that is simply about Mister Rogers, so A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood approaches it by going through the eyes of an interviewer who's surprised to find just how affable he really is.
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Fils-Aimé was always known as a savvy manager on the business side of things, but outwardly he projected the image of an affable, fun-loving executive who could embody the spirit of fun and childlike wonder that are central to Nintendo's games mission.
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Yet even at that time, Nadella made it clear his company fully intended to compete hard within markets against Salesforce and everyone else — the cooperation only went so far — but he saw an opportunity for his company by playing the role of affable partner.
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Malkandi's story flummoxes the crew, who, through patient interviews and court documents, try to piece together the real story of how this affable suburban dad came to be an unwitting accomplice, two degrees removed from a high-level al Qaeda operative and bin Laden associate.
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Matthew Heimbach, who at various points in his career has been called "the little Führer" and "the affable, youthful face of hate in America," was wearing a pair of blue pajama pants decorated with Angry Birds as he nursed a cup of tepid coffee.
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In the past three months, the North Korean leader has gone to great lengths to cultivate an affable and diplomatic image, making his first trip abroad to Beijing last month and just this week was photographed comforting the Chinese victims of a bus crash.
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In a cutaway coat for special occasions or a turtleneck for cocktail parties, he looked every inch the diplomat: a distinguished face, affable and conciliatory; an easy smile for a telling joke, receding gray hair that curled fashionably over his collar at the back.
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Alexander Wamboldt, an affable, bearded Princeton Ph.D. who worked as a SHIFT ethnographer, told me that it was important, in these encounters, to "model good, consensual research behavior"—he announced his name and his purpose, along with a disclaimer about confidentiality, before entering a conversation.
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Big Ears is the brainchild and labor of love of Tennessee graduate and Knoxville impresario Ashley Capps, whose AC Entertainment co-produces Bonnaroo come the summer and cuts an affable but controlling figure for booking bands in the Southeast for much of the year.
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On the eve of his appointment, Mr. Foa, 55 and affable, offered a glimpse of his new office with eight television screens in the wall, and shared passages of his book exploring the ways that politicians and spin doctors manipulate the truth and spread misinformation.
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On his recent album "Man of the Woods," he presents himself "not as a sex-symbol soul supernova, but as an affable bro who enjoys the funk, soul and disco of the 230s," as The New York Times critic Jon Caramanica recently put it.
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His affable demeanor during oral arguments at the court - he regularly exchanged friendly remarks off-mic with liberal colleague Elena Kagan - stood in stark contrast to his angry testimony during his confirmation hearings last September when accused Democrats of orchestrating a hit-job against him.
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At a cafe next to the domed New Synagogue, which was spared destruction during the pogroms of November 1938, Königsberg, an affable 58-year-old, told me his mother had been liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and had intended to move to Paris.
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" For Atkinson, this "affable" work summoned the high jinks of vaudeville, burlesque and peppy college-themed fare of yore, and he described the score — by the Broadway neophytes Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn — as "very pleasant to hear, like a well-oiled hurdy-gurdy.
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An antidote, at least of a sort, can be found in Andrew Schulman, whose earnest but affable memoir, WAKING THE SPIRIT: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul (Picador, $25), uses the author's own story as the first movement rather than the entire symphony.
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Ms. Jolie also seemed aware of how she might be beheld by the public; the removed ice queen to Mr. Pitt's affable down-home Missouri boy (his revealing interview in the summer issue of GQ Style helped burnish his image as the more relatable one).
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The NEC director, who argued repeatedly to Trump that the tariffs would slam U.S. manufacturers, decided he'd had enough and quit in March of this year, replaced by Larry Kudlow, an affable free-trader and former CNBC host much less likely to contradict the president.
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While Sheeran die-hards (lovingly called the Sheerios, a term of which he approves) remain loyal defenders and supporters, his growing legion of vocal detractors raises the question: How did a seemingly innocuous artist — an affable, slightly nerdy, acoustic guitar–toting Brit — become so polarizing?
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He went to Harvard, attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, worked at McKinsey, returned home to improve his community, served in the military, got married; he is responsible, pragmatic, affable, service-oriented, conversant in ideas, an intellectual, but not one prone to getting lost in the dream.
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November 1 The first season of Amazon's "Jack Ryan" was a pleasant surprise, thanks in part to its unusually mature and nuanced take on the global fight against terrorism, and also to the star John Krasinski's reimagining of Tom Clancy's C.I.A. action hero as an affable nerd.
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Foot traffic was heavy, and everyone who came and went seemed to be on a first-name basis with the affable Mr. Colalillo, who goes by the name Pat (in a sort of perfect symbiosis, he also owns Cosmo & Alex Pisano Brothers, the Italian delicatessen next door).
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It's probably some combination of the above, but in any case, casting Lindsay brings The Bachelorette one significant step toward, you know, acknowledging that nonwhite women might also want the chance to be swooned and fought over by a herd of affable farmers on the beach.
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Mareg Asmro, an affable young man who aspires to study in China someday, educated me about the history of the city as we walked toward the first of the group of 11 monolithic churches cut directly into the earth — gigantic structures hewed from single blocks of rock.
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Though his songs rely heavily on the gospel vernacular, they champion earthly pleasures ("Sex X Money X Sneakers," from 2012, clearly outlines his priorities), and his frequent appearances on tracks by Chance the Rapper, Schoolboy Q and the like reveal him to be an affable collaborator.
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An affable Italian who has spent most of his career in marketing, Mr. de Meo is likely to be less imperious and more diplomatic than Carlos Ghosn, who was chief executive of Renault before his arrest in Japan in November 2018 on charges of financial impropriety.
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The group they put together included the English actor and "Game of Thrones" alum Brenock O'Connor, who portrays Conor, and Zara Devlin, an actor from Northern Ireland, as Raphina — along with a clutch of affable and energetic actor-musicians, one of whom is still in high school.
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Affable, upbeat works by Robert Ward, who died in 2013 at 95, bracketed a program of approachable but diffuse Americana, with a picturesque piece by Mason Bates and a soft-focus reverie by Sarah Kirkland Snider accompanying a soft-focus video meditation on memory by Mark DeChiazza.
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Perhaps the experience of being so hotly contested has something to do with the equanimity Salle exhibits in "How to See," his debut collection of essays: The former enfant terrible (his words) is now an affable elder statesman with an upbeat, noncombative approach to art criticism.
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Inside the White House, Cipollone quickly established himself as the opposite of Trump's first White House counsel, Don McGahn — standing out as an affable presence who enjoyed spending time in the Oval Office and who tried to help implement the president's wishes as much as he could.
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Mr. Fairfax, a 39-year-old Democrat who presides over the State Senate as lieutenant governor, a part-time post, has built a reputation as an affable and effective politician who can speak passionately about racial divisions while also appealing to a broad base of voters.
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Affectionately referred to as "Bob" by employees, customers and news anchors, the 61-year-old's affable manner and staunch defense of his company in the face of internal corruption and external criticism from regulators made him a colorful character in corporate Kenya's forest of dark suits.
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The film's arc is that of a three-act TV movie, and it not-so-subtly suggests that Reagan — a Hollywood veteran known for playing the affable good guy — consciously structured his years in office on the same principles that Hollywood had been using to keep fans engaged.
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Kislyak, a nuclear scientist who became ambassador in 2008, was an affable figure in Washington who was known to throw lavish parties, including a 2010 bash with edible Fabergé eggs, baton twirlers, and a guest list that included a US Supreme Court justice and at least two senators.
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Today's Exhibit A is Steve Martin — as non-controversial and affable as any Hollywood figure out there — who tweeted the following regarding Fisher on Tuesday, since deleted for no good reason: Here's Steve Martin's fine little tweet praising Carrie Fisher that some grumps pressured him to delete. pic.twitter.
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Generally speaking, you'll want a mix of people that are: affable; optimistic; exhibit physical and mental endurance; demonstrate both specialist skills as well as the breadth of a generalist; picky eaters are a no; and fans of dystopian literature and The Walking Dead will likely be of use.
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Framed as a series of face-offs, the inquiry registers as more testy than adversarial, and the casting of comfortably familiar character actors — Anna Gunn, Jamey Sheridan and the affable-looking Mike O'Malley — implies that these sleuths aren't inquisitors, just rolling up their sleeves to get right to work.
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The other big reveal this episode comes when we find out that James Wolk's affable gentleman senator Joe Keane is the leader of the Seventh Kavalry, and that he apparently saw his leadership as half of a partnership with the now-dead Judd as the chief of the police.
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An affable White House aide under President Jimmy Carter who became a self-made billionaire, he is a major philanthropist with a passion for American history, and is on the boards of organizations including the Brookings Institution, Lincoln Center, the University of Chicago and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Reminiscent of the brain condition that gave Peter Krause's character visions in "Six Feet Under," this story strand provides some reason to watch, along with Mr. Robbins's affable performance and the overall polish always supplied by Mr. Ball, who wrote the first two episodes and directed the first.
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The ground-floor wing of the rationalist Triennale edifice will be devoted to around 150 icons of Italian design, among them Ettore Sottsass's carnivalesque "Carlton" room divider for Memphis, Olivetti's affable yellow calculator, Gae Aulenti's biomorphic "Pipistrello" lamp for Martinelli and Vico Magistretti's shuttering "Eclisse" lamp for Artemide.
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David Koch, instantly recognizable in any crowd at 6-feet-5-inches, was the more affable and public face of the duo, while Charles Koch, who still lives in the compound where they were raised in Wichita, was the driving force behind the company and the brothers' political activism.
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This week in Paris, to celebrate his 25th anniversary in the business, the affable Italian decided to step out from behind the velvet curtain and team up with the luxury glassmaker Baccarat to create a collection of 15 limited-edition shoes with couture-worthy dazzle and savoir-faire.
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In the end, the affable Ms. Harris offered some insight into how she has approached the Year of Viola Davis, who has never won an Oscar despite two prior nominations (for "The Help" and for "Doubt" in 2009), making her the most nominated black actress in academy history.
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Over the past decade, he has earned prestigious appointments — residencies at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a close association with the San Francisco Symphony — on the strength of blandly affable forced marriages of rave-style electronic beats and Bernstein-style orchestral lushness.
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"It's our debut single and first appearance as SuperM, so we knew that we had to do something that shows off all our best sides — whether it be our style or each of our personas and characters," the affable Mark tells Refinery29 following SuperM's debut Los Angeles showcase.
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The others at the table were Zhang, a surly 27-year-old who spent most of his time fiddling with his smartphone; Hu, a 28-year-old woman married with two kids; and Guo, an affable 40-year-old with a set of pearly white fake front teeth.
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I jumped on the phone to chat with the affable Letteri about working with director Matt Reeves, the challenges of 65mm film, the evolution and iteration of the performance-capture process, and how to create a CG forest that's so realistic you can't even tell that it's an effect at all.
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The viewing public of the show adored the bright smiles and good natures of the baby girls so much that they were not recast in later seasons, an almost unprecedented move in a television environment that likes to expedite the growth of infant characters into affable preschoolers to keep them interesting.
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And yet even as Jones carried out community service and an apology tour, Cormier—with his affable personality and high-road taking—still hadn't caught on as the true champion in the eyes of the public; lackluster pay-per-view buys for his main events with Johnson and Gustafsson proved it.
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Thus far, the uproar may be doing the most harm to Mr. McCrory, an affable former mayor of Charlotte who has struggled, since taking office in 2013, to maintain his reputation as a moderate in the face of a Republican-dominated legislature that is considerably more conservative than he is.
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Charles M. Blow On Friday, I watched yet another bizarre scene from an already bizarre election cycle: The affable but hopelessly vacant Ben Carson endorsing the demagogic real estate developer who once said of Carson that he had a "pathological temper" as a child and compared him to a child molester.
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After Maude married Sir Bache Cunard, an affable dud and a grandson of the founder of the cruise ship line, her life as the mistress of a minor stately home might have been as dull as her husband if she hadn't come to the notice of the Prince of Wales.
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Though many believed Mr. Chirac should have assumed full responsibility for the defeat and resigned, he resorted to an old French presidential ploy, ousting the affable but unpopular Mr. Raffarin and appointing his longtime protégé Dominique de Villepin as prime minister in an effort to restore confidence in the government.
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It took his father-in-law a minute to warm to the affable 30-year-old, not least because as a teen he selected a single rose to give his then girlfriend, only for her—and her father—to realize said fake flower was actually a rolled up red thong impersonating a rose.
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Gen X, the affable Brooklynite found himself in the sights of rival strategist David Wright — and at the mercy of 18-year-old superfan Will Wahl, who openly weighed the pros and cons of flipping alliances so that he could start racking up leadership bona fides heading in to the season's final days.
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The film's arc is that of a three-act TV movie, and it not-so-subtly suggests that Reagan — a Hollywood veteran known for playing the affable good guy — consciously structured his years in office on the same principles and story elements that Hollywood films have long used to keep fans engaged.
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But eventually she cottons to what we already know, or can pretty easily guess: The people she's closest to, including her mother, Caroline (Geraldine James), her former best friend, Mandy (Christine Bottomley), and the affable new neighbor, Billy (Adeel Akhtar), are harboring secrets that start to make her own past transgression look tolerable.
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But while the two leaders have developed what appears to be an affable friendship, analysts said this is unlikely to save the 2015 agreement, officially known as the JCPOA, which was signed by six world powers and Iran to lift international sanctions on the latter in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program.
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It felt like a pleasant romp through a truly idiosyncratic setting, where at any time a character could call for Janet (D'Arcy Carden)—an all-knowing computer program in the form of a woman in a purple skirt suit—and she would appear, daffy and affable, able to produce any item on demand.
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Somewhere between a playmate, an affable uncle or grandpa, and a fairy godfather, Rogers's slow and compassionate approach to children's television ran counter to what we typically expect of TV shows for kids; there are no bright, flashy, fast-moving cartoons or slapstick humor in his neighborhood, just simple, direct conversation and storytelling.
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It is the belief that even the least qualified man is a better choice than the most qualified woman and a belief that the most vile, anti-intellectual, scandal-plagued simpleton of a white man is sufficient to follow in the presidential footsteps of the best educated, most eloquent, most affable black man.
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And in "Scandal" (22011), he played an affable go-between who paired pretty girls with powerful men in a true-story, tabloid-fodder episode known as the Profumo affair, which ended the career of Britain's secretary of state for war, John Profumo, and tainted the conservative government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
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In the now-infamous 1994 mugshot taken when he was arrested in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ronald Goldman, his expression is dismal, with few traces of the affable star of the Naked Gun film series and Hertz rental car commercials that helped make him a household name.
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In a blind viewing, the average cinephile could probably identify it as a Coen Brothers picture, because it has so many of their signatures: serious people taking ridiculous situations with grave equanimity, straight-faced film references, a stable of distractingly famous people taking on cameo-level roles, and George Clooney playing an affable, noisy nitwit.
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The affable Virginia Democrat replied that it felt just like 2008, when he was a finalist to be Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE's running mate but was ultimately passed over.
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LOS ANGELES — Before Mac DeMarco bought a lovely blue home with a pool on a quiet hill here in Silver Lake — the first real adult spoils of a surprising career built on seeming like an affable deadbeat — he gave out his exact address to fans, not exactly expecting them to show up in droves.
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During Game 3 of the N.B.A. finals last season, when the Golden State Warriors found themselves trailing the Cleveland Cavaliers by 17 points after the first quarter, it was left to Burke to sift through the wreckage by asking Steve Kerr, the usually affable coach of the Warriors, what he had seen from his team.
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The opening episodes focus on the rapidly amassed teams that would face off, in the courts of both law and opinion, to fight over the question of whether smooth, handsome, affable Simpson – super-athlete, actor, celebrity, spokesperson – was guilty of slashing to death his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, on June 12, 1994.
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The Republican candidate, who lost momentum this week after coming in fifth in New Hampshire, plans to take a more aggressive tone with some of his rivals -- especially if they attack him on the debate stage -- and is expected to showcase more of his affable personality in order to rebut criticism that he is a scripted candidate.
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Android developers were granted deeper access to the tech behind the bot at Google I/O earlier this year, while SoftBank has shown Pepper's potential by creating an entire store staff by the affable android, partnering with Honda to make a Knight Rider-esque (dream) car, and landing its young protegé a job at Pizza Hut.
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Across the new show's six episodes, it becomes clear that "the people she's closest to, including her mother, Caroline (Geraldine James), her former best friend, Mandy (Christine Bottomley), and the affable new neighbor, Billy (Adeel Akhtar), are harboring secrets that start to make her own past transgression look tolerable," Mike Hale writes in his New York Times review.
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It was repurposed this past week to deliver the United States men's soccer team to a match in Costa Rica, with only one lingering reminder — an H on the tail — of the first female presidential nominee for a major party in American history and the affable dad-jeans, purple-state running mate who traveled the country making her case.
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Unlike the kid-oriented PBS program, Bill Nye Saves the World is geared toward adult science fans with a penchant for whimsy; it's filmed before a live studio audience and punctuated by drop-in cameos from celebrities like model Karlie Kloss, TV/food personality Alton Brown, geek-culture figurehead Wil Wheaton, and affable filmmaker Zach Braff.
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We travel with him, seeing libraries and librarians through his eyes, from Trinity College Dublin's affable keeper of manuscripts (who sports "a neatly cropped graying beard, a bit like a friendly Schnauzer dog with glasses") to the "saint among manuscript librarians" in St. Petersburg, who feeds him whiskey-flavored Russian chocolates when, work-absorbed, he misses lunch.
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He also supports United Hatzalah, an Israeli emergency medical services group that prides itself on integrating Arab and Druze volunteers; helped build a $21984 million village for disabled children — Bedouin and Jewish — in the Negev Desert; and is known as an affable host of large holiday meals at the penthouse apartment he owns in a well-heeled Jerusalem neighborhood.
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In an interview at a Lower East Side hotel, the affable Mr. Buress — who'd spent his downtime that afternoon yelling, "Hey, come here!" to passers-by as he and a videographer created an impromptu man-on-the-street talk show — spoke about what he brings to moviemaking, his relationship with fame and why he stopped drinking.
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All the women and girls are worried about him in the house, but when he wakes up, relations slowly improve between the affable McBurney and the women, particularly the oldest three: strong-willed, mature Miss Martha, quiet and dutiful Edwina, and precociously tantalizing Alicia, who all but winks at him the moment he sets eyes on her.
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He is incredibly affable upon our greeting, carrying a distinct youthful British enthusiasm that is instantly recognisable to anyone that grew up around the working class estates of the UK. In the cage, Page's much-lauded style is a dual role of snake charmer and pouncing cobra, hypnotising his opponents with array of unorthodox movements before leading the contact with venomous rapidity.
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A usually affable veteran of the dysfunctional and often ethically challenged culture of Albany, Mr. Libous — a Republican from the state's Southern Tier region whose district included Binghamton — was ensnared in a scandal of his own in 2014, when he was indicted on charges of lying to federal agents who were investigating the hiring of his son at a politically connected law firm.
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The affable Meyers, with his dry wit and politically inflected comedy, is, in many ways, this generation's Cavett: Both cut their teeth in show business as actors, both have hosted the Emmys and both have inspired the wrath of dubious politicians (although only one of them was name-checked more than two dozen times on the Nixon White House tapes).
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Yet shortly after the couple's faith in their cause (and each other) is reconfirmed, they discover their daughter — whom they've raised like a normal American kid, if a tad less materialistic — has gotten interested in God, by way of a youth group led by the affable and earnest Pastor Tim (Kelly AuCoin), with whom they eventually become at least somewhat friendly.
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On her first day working in "customer experience" at the Circle — it's a euphemism for being on the customer help desk — Mae Holland (Watson) walks past the Dali Lama and is handed a shiny new tablet with her name on it, and she feels euphorically happy about working at a company where all of her young, attractive co-workers are affable and enthusiastic.
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He soon cut off contact and stopped sending money, and when Heloise, who had taken up with a French merchant from Saint Grimaud, perished suddenly after a miscarriage, the girl was left at the mercy of her grandmother, who wasted no time in settling her gray-eyed, barely pubescent granddaughter with Hans, an affable middle-aged German, who sold construction materials.
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But the operation formerly run by Mr. Silverman, an affable executive with a tendency to give directors a wide berth, has also delivered films of irregular quality — something that did not matter so much in the past, when consumers had fewer entertainment options, but a shortcoming that is now considered unacceptable, especially as studios like Warner increasingly rely on sequels.
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But if you've followed the trajectory of Mr. Meyers, 43, who made an affable anchor of the "Weekend Update" segment on "Saturday Night Live" and led the 2011 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, where Mr. Trump spent the night being pummeled with caustic one-liners, then you know he did not plan to hold his tongue in Ms. Conway's presence.
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The affable O'Neill took a beating throughout I'll Have Another's run toward a Triple Crown when it came to light that over 14 years and in four states he had received more than a dozen violations for giving his horses improper drugs and that his horses had a tendency to break down or show signs of injury at a rate more than twice the national average.
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While Games Done Quick has had some people in the past who were perhaps a little too enthused to perform their own particular brand of wacky online behavior in front of a camera, at this point you can either expect an affable, competent person to speedrun and talk at the same time or a quiet, methodical runner with a great commentator behind them on the couch.
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Before I hit record on my iPhone, I politely kick the startup's perfectly affable PR flack out of the room, and explain to Takeuchi that the only real preparation I've done for this assignment is to have a brief call with Matt Robinson, who, along with Monzo Bank's Tom Blomfield, co-founded GoCardless with Takeuchi in 2011 but has since left to found property tech startup Nested.
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I hesitate to recommend Twitter as useful for any sort of public sentiment analysis, but right now there are people — real people with children, best-selling books and magazine columns — imploring not just Ms. Ardern, or the similarly affable prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, but Donald Tusk, a former prime minister of Poland and current president of the European Commission, to take over Britain.
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On Sunday evening, HBO hosted the premiere of "Home Videos," a loose half-hour of cinéma vérité documenting Carmichael's off-the-cuff chats with some of the women in his life during a visit to his hometown, Winston-Salem, N.C. Instead of performing onstage, the comedian plays an affable investigator, interviewing his subjects about topics like beauty standards, R. Kelly, blackness and sensitive family history.
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Letter of Recommendation Last winter, I found myself in a familiar position: my neck craned forward, my hearing aids hissing along to a jukebox in a Manhattan dive bar, squinting and nodding as I tried to make out what was being said by my date, a handsome, affable man who had not taken to heart my suggestion that we go somewhere quiet and well lit.
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A recent Washington Post Magazine feature about Instagram's tactical community spent significant time with Black Rifle Coffee company owner Mat Best, who has established his brand not just by brewing coffee and firing big guns but by writing himself into YouTube sketches that paint a picture of an affable but hapless husband, engaged in a goofy domestic tug-of-war over whether and when he can get some.
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