Sentences Generator
And
Your saved sentences

No sentences have been saved yet

"amiable" Definitions
  1. pleasant; friendly and easy to like
"amiable" Antonyms
unpleasant unfriendly disagreeable hostile irritable loathsome unsociable unamiable mean uncongenial ungenial unlikable annoying nasty repulsive ungracious unpleasing cold hateful impolite rough aggressive callous abusive brutal surly antagonistic crass crude cruel foul hard harsh insolent obnoxious offensive rude unkind severe strict merciless rigorous stern stringent intolerant limiting restrictive rigid heartless unkindly inconsiderate uncharitable disobliging uncooperative alienating estranged greedy selfish unhelpful unobliging unwelcoming antisocial reserved aloof uncommunicative unsocial withdrawn unapproachable frosty distant haughty unforthcoming stand-offish cool frigid disrespectful impudent impertinent brusque curt horrid presumptuous boorish graceless insulting introverted introspective inward-looking out-going self-contained fierce vindictive violent fiery malignant unfeeling quarrelsome unseemly malevolent malicious dishonest dishonorable(US) ignoble unethical unjust unprincipled unrighteous corrupt deceitful deceptive deceiving immoral low mendacious untruthful base intolerable traitorous unhappy grumpy miserable dejected despondent sad glum grim heartbroken standoffish troubled woeful down downbeat gloomy melancholic defiant disobedient insubordinate rebellious resistant contumacious obstinate confrontational recusant ungovernable challenging intractable obstreperous unruly balky contrary resistive terrible awful bad dismal dreadful lousy poor appalling atrocious horrible rotten dreaded harrowing lamentable objectionable shocking terrifying forced warring dull boring ponderous tedious monotonous tiresome uninteresting lacklustre(UK) lifeless unexciting humdrum soulless unappealing uninspiring drab passionless repellent unremarkable characterless distasteful

525 Sentences With "amiable"

How to use amiable in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "amiable" and check conjugation/comparative form for "amiable". Mastering all the usages of "amiable" from sentence examples published by news publications.

I stand by looking amiable while they chat in Norwegian.
Not all of his supporters are as amiable as Joy.
The man behind the myth emerges as an amiable perfectionist.
Mr Abiy has had success with a more amiable approach.
John Hickenlooper, an amiable former governor from Colorado, looks vulnerable.
Jeffrey Immelt, Mr Welch's amiable successor, violated all three rules.
The two young women are game and amiable screen presences.
On top of that, Democrats tend to prefer amiable politicians.
Gertie, a lumbering and amiable beast, emerges from a cave.
She lives there alone, attended by two amiable, rotund cats.
But attractive and amiable do not a good movie make.
China is thus proving a little more amiable to foreign capital.
Padgett's poems can be simultaneously amiable and wistful, or self-mocking.
Mr. Daniels, 61 and warily amiable, is a lifelong baseball fan.
The waltzes swung along merrily, but with less amiable undertows, too.
The amiable Mr. Hollande has long been noted for his resiliency.
He proved, once again, an amiable, apolitical and self-deprecating host.
Parents slathered with sunscreen formed amiable clusters at the community house.
Being the amiable, smooth-talking Hoosier is very easy for him.
He appears to be amiable, jolly good fellow, and very accommodating.
I'm greeted by an amiable bespectacled British guy in his mid-30s.
For amiable drivers, passengers may be asked to contribute $1 per person.
The Nixon team had an amiable relationship with the outgoing Johnson administration.
Cameras captured their amiable conversation showing both women looking relaxed and happy.
In interviews and speeches, Mr. Ebell comes off as amiable and calm.
There's an amiable relentlessness to her, a constant churn of intellectual energy.
A native of China, he speaks a clipped, intense, and amiable English.
What Coldplay does, though, is fill huge spaces with blank, occasionally amiable rumble.
Rational calculation and amiable consensus do not invariably govern Dutch heads and hearts.
That is amiable as well as ideologically sound, and liable to be effective.
The actor, 36, isn't known for his amiable ways, and that's his prerogative.
Mr. Bogdanovich is an able and amiable guide to Keaton's life and work.
At Thanksgiving, I'd show up at my friends' homes, like an amiable stray.
With these constraints, we can eventually deduce that the split is AMIABLE/AFFABLE.
Each time he was amiable with the staff and did not appear vigilant.
"Sing" is relentlessly amiable, and has little in the way of vulgar humor.
The amiable American official didn't expect that to be a reason for trouble.
Howdy, cowpokes, please listen to this amiable story to which you can surely relate!
I can squeeze 2600 days of amiable game show hosting duties into my schedule.
It's a wacky little charmer of a film, unpredictable and amiable at every turn.
Mr. Robbins tosses around his lines with amiable lightness, like the professional he is.
As for the amiable Mr Macron, he has already pulled off a historic feat.
Phil Collins is best known as the cheeky, amiable face of '80s romantic pop.
The amiable Blazer volunteered to coach his children's teams, beginning in the mid-1970s.
Which makes sense for this song, which is amiable, feather-light and perfectly evanescent.
The Ear is an amiable place: good music, good company, good drinks and food.
His amiable act doesn't question religious dogma with any persistence or engage with doubters.
Hardly pictorial, they are about as amiable as the front ends of oncoming trucks.
Richard Kind is brilliant casting for Felix precisely because he's such an amiable presence.
He is amiable and direct, and his lab's ambitions are both lofty and pragmatic.
The film works just fine as an anthology of amiable encounters and improvised collaborations.
First, there's the name, more likely to evoke amiable Italians in stripes than aerial transport.
For Mr Wu, an amiable father of two little girls, is just 38 years old.
He was no longer the wooden, failed presidential candidate, but an amiable, captivating climate prophet.
Daunno's Curly, however, is amiable but diffuse, his affections and his sense of humor unclear.
For the most part, "Love, Simon" is an amiable, slick, silver-tongued teen romantic comedy.
Douglas is clearly comfortable with Sandy, and his performance is amiable and easy to like.
Mr. Cook is an amiable presenter, but he doesn't pretend to have Mr. Jobs's magnetism.
"Abominable" is an exceptionally watchable and amiable animated tale written and directed by Jill Culton.
And Tuesday, here was McIlroy, amiable, thoughtful and forthcoming, trying to explain himself yet again.
In the amiable animated feature "Wonder Park," a child's imagination can power an amusement park.
"He appear to be amiable, jolly good fellow, and very accommodating," Duterte said of Kim.
With the amiable surf-punks Wavves, kindred spirits in distortion-heavy high jinks, and Cherry Glazerr.
Gianaris is an amiable veteran of local politics, a dealmaker rather than an ideologue by nature.
The amiable Mr Gentiloni, a member of the Italian nobility, has far more experience of politics.
Tony is amiable enough, but awkward around people — brusque to the postman and helpless around Susie.
Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) has an amiable new boyfriend, Bob (Sean Astin, of "The Goonies" fame).
But as Max Alexander's ongoing sculpture series demonstrates, moths and woolen knits can be quite amiable.
With his kind face, intelligent gaze, and ready smile, Francis is an amiable and compelling figure.
Charged with stopping the so-called Red Queen are two amiable, not particularly ambitious Army cops.
At fifty-six, Moore is amiable and unpretentious, "a little bit scatterbrained," by his own description.
He isn't an especially contentious man — on the contrary, his manner is generally amiable and serene.
He sometimes talks this way, in long amiable strolls through and around the topic at hand.
" The rose would be a more "strong and determined" color and the blue more "delicate and amiable.
Ms. Platten sings some overwrought soul yelps — like a Jessie J manqué — and it's all amiable enough.
And the suspect was all of one piece: amiable, entertaining, self-absorbed and contemptible — but consistently so.
Mr. Faraguna, an amiable father of two and constitutional law professor, reflected on his previous 2098 Barcolanas.
Cloutier stumbled on the forgotten manuscript of "Amiable With Big Teeth" while studying at Columbia in 2009.
Rampage has a pretty casual, amiable sense of humor, mostly based in banter and some juvenile slapstick.
The Nice Guys is an amiable enough wheel-spinner with plenty of period texture and local signifiers.
But, as with the pants question, I usually tone it down for the sake of amiable conversation.
Clark Clifford, a White House adviser, famously called him "an amiable dunce" at a Georgetown dinner party.
Anthony was a surprisingly soft pillar and one the amiable Porzingis seemed to genuinely enjoy playing with.
Like the Vice-President, they are good-looking, with chiselled features, and have an unpretentious, amiable manner.
Some cuisines outside historic wine regions, like Cantonese and Vietnamese, have proved themselves amiable companions to wine.
And here comes Fearless Jones, the amiable strongman with fists like hams and a baby's pure heart.
He came to The Times this week for a long conversation, during which he was extremely amiable.
When Mr. Stiller appears on the show, amiable jokes on air turn to insults during a commercial.
Residents there described him as amiable and not shy about asking for a dime or a nickel.
As we waited, Jacques Hinderer, an amiable geophysicist, explained some of the difficulties in obtaining precise data.
The provocative title, the down-home humor and Ms. Hall's amiable songs made for a winning package.
My daughters are amiable when they lose, as a result of experiencing a good deal of it.
Even Apple's amiable cofounder, Steve Wosniak, wondered, more politely, whether the card might harbor some misogynistic tendencies.
The performers were more amiable than inspired, even the charismatic Peter Mattei as the resourceful barber Figaro.
Mr. Letterman and Mr. Trump had such an amiable rapport that they could disagree heatedly without rancor.
Darting around Lower Manhattan, Ms. Rose was amiable and self-deprecating about what she has been through.
The other team takes off down the floor and the Knicks' defenders jog alongside like amiable company.
Here and there, I struck up amiable conversations with well-mannered men from all over the country.
A début album and festival performances soon followed—impressive feats that Alexander handled with amiable self-effacement.
Yet Mr. Williams, amiable and soft-spoken, seems a discordantly gentle voice in the strident Breitbart chorus.
Instead, they stumble and stammer their way forward, punctuating themselves with amiable space-holders like "um" or "so".
When I left, it kind of reminded me of a divorce: At first, everyone wanted to be amiable.
Yelchin's real-life reputation for being amiable and professional was another sentiment echoed again and again by colleagues.
Some of it is social lubrication — the warm chuckles we give one another to be amiable and polite.
Current and former Twitter executives describe the relationship among Mr. Bain, Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Noto as amiable.
Amiable and voluble, Li speaks with the rhetorical flourish of a man who has told his story often.
He works in an argot of amiable swing, punctuated by startling disruptions and occasional shots of seraphic beauty.
That evening, when I asked him to assess the country's current situation, his amiable disposition shifted to neutral.
After watching the 37-minute video, the amiable ceramic sculptures placed around the gallery feel more like relics.
A longtime friend and amiable rival to Anthony Bourdain, Mr. Ramsay paid his respects on Twitter last week.
And there's Mr. Elton (Josh O'Connor), the new vicar, an amiable young man in need of a wife.
The monochrome effect, set off by Lowery's large, shaved head, made him seem like an amiable Bond villain.
The paradigmatic example of a floater is Raghubir Goyal, an amiable, somewhat absent-minded man in his sixties.
He inquired further throughout the interview, and while he was amiable about it, this wasn't flattery or deflection.
One night, a mongoose stood in his doorway like an amiable visitor, then hopped off toward better prospects.
Instead, she's been an amiable screw-up for the vast majority of her time on the main roster.
With most of his work presented in documentary form, it's surprising how well the artist's amiable tone came through.
Gosling is a terrific actor, but he's never been this immensely amiable; it's probably my favorite performance of his.
To the surprise of the tykes, Guilherme Winter, the amiable hunk who played the grown-up Moses, stopped by.
An acquaintance in Barcelona had arranged for me to meet Josep M. Puig Vall, the amiable 50ish town mayor.
Mr. Hanley, who stood an imposing 6-foot-5, was jocular and amiable but, when necessary, could be tough.
His name is Barack (Peter Francis James, shiny with dangerously amiable professionalism), and he has an offer to make.
The movie, based on Mr. Bauman's autobiography, begins with a depiction of him as a relatively amiable screw-up.
These days, most people probably know Pepe not as an amiable amphibian but as an incongruous symbol of hate.
In the final chapter, Tommy imitates none other than "the great Poirot," with Tuppence as Hastings, his amiable sidekick.
On the night I saw the show, directed by Mr. Kail, the amiable M.C. in chief was Mr. Veneziale.
Yes, Henry, an amiable pharmacist, was wide-eyed and clueless, but he was as dependably kindhearted as Fred Rogers.
Nat Faxon ("Married") is the amiable trust-fund bro, Nick; Greg Germann ("Ally McBeal"), Sam's laid-back, wealthy husband.
Mr. Rush is amiable company, quick with stories about playing for next to nothing in the 1950s and '60s.
Jim Gaffigan, one of the premiere joke tellers today, hardly ever laughs in his delivery, maintaining an amiable deadpan.
So I was pleasantly surprised by this book's collective tone, which is strikingly gentle, amiable and above all unpretentious.
Like everyone else, they were taken aback by Trump's win, but during the transition they found him surprisingly amiable.
Like Bill & Ted, Point Break casts Reeves as an amiable West Coast bro, albeit one with a little more intensity.
Under ordinary circumstances he is amiable and serene, with his furrowed, leonine features often lit with an ice-white smile.
Facebook's position would be a sensible one in an environment where partisan politics are amiable and debated in good faith.
TERRY BRANSTAD is an avuncular, amiable man, who has been popular in Iowa, his home state for a long time.
The men's wear shows are more relaxed than the women's (which start next week), and the amiable atmosphere reflected it.
He is an amiable fellow who generally seems pleased with the blessed life he is living, ring or no ring.
"Steve is a perfectly amiable guy, but he does not have the intellectual gravitas for this important job," Mankiw wrote.
One of their number, Tony Goddard, an amiable former construction manager, pauses while drinking whisky and gestures to the sun.
Culled from interviews with the subject, this compilation offers an amiable portrait of the influential gallerist, curator, and museum director.
He registers at first as an amiable host with an amusing line of patter about growing up Catholic in Denver.
You can pose seated next to an amiable, potbellied statue of him in a small plaza outside his former home.
Despite the amiable history between Mr. Trump and Deutsche Bank, the lawsuit is not the first court fight between them.
The two skiers, however, share some sponsors and sometimes even make appearances together, occasions when they are amiable and deferential.
More than 30 years later, with the former first lady's blessing, Weinberg began writing this amiable book about the experience.
Throughout the meal, the head chef—Deuki Hong, an amiable, floppy-haired twenty-seven-year-old—personally presented each dish.
All of the country's main parties, even the environmentalist Greens, have long histories of amiable relations with the auto industry.
If only in 2016 we had had as many as these 10 strong and amiable Democratic candidates for the nomination.
In "Friend," for example, a wobbly black line separates a field of gray from an intruding rectangle of amiable chartreuse.
It was so amiable, in fact, that Mr. Perez and Mr. Ellison shared dinner last week at a Washington restaurant.
I suspect that if I was in a room with him, we could have a very amiable and delightful conversation.
Lazarescu is an amiable Romanian leading FIFA development at EA's studio in Bucharest, which splits work with the team in Vancouver.
PERINO: It put him a little bit on the defensive, and it put him in a position of being quite amiable.
HANNITY: Wait a minute, he was called an amiable dunce by Republican establishment figures, and voodoo economics was a Bush term.
His attitude towards the president is one of amiable concern, which he expresses while recounting their slightest interaction in minute detail.
The manager, Manjit Singh, is a small, amiable man with the sort of watchfulness common to lifers in the restaurant industry.
His father, Louis, who's not exactly portrayed as a model parent in the memoir, is an amiable and supportive dad onscreen.
My guide was Mauricio Murillo, or Moe, an amiable Bostonian with gauged earrings, a cocked beanie, and a Williamsburg-ready beard.
Twelve-year-old Orion is an amiable companion with a voice that is witty, world-weary, sarcastic and slouching toward wisdom.
This he discovered during his introductory conversation with Barry Trotz, an amiable fellow but a candid critic, unsparing in his assessments.
Today, she says, the descendants of the original clan are "amiable, generous souls living culturally vibrant lives" from Lisbon to Berkeley.
It's all very amiable and inclusive — it would be hard to feel like you couldn't be in that parking lot, too.
The next morning, in a live interview with Savannah Guthrie on "Today," he showed the public-relations limits of amiable bluster.
She works with Chris (Ben Whishaw), an amiable scientist who seems like he might want to ask Alice on a date.
Less amiable and imbued with their own unique texture, the artist's fine art works possess a different lexicon of shape and form.
Scott, Maggie (Judy Greer), and Paxton (Bobby Cannavale) have such an amiable co-parenting relationship that three-way hugs are a staple.
Now he's on the excellent jeremiad rapper billy woods' label, Backwoodz Studioz, for the release of an amiable stunner called Funeral Balloons.
Be yourself, be sincere, and accept that starting and carrying on amiable conversations takes a certain amount of effort for most people. 
In the words of its amiable CEO, Vineet Jain, Egnyte does not "need to raise money" today, but it is considering it.
"Star Roving" is an amiable cloud-rocker with a Britpop chord progression and Neil Halstead's vocals residing somewhere in the soothing haze.
Surpassed by the present that it aims to depict, the novel feels amiable and mild by comparison, already quaintly out of date.
The broadcast, an amiable three-hour discussion of politics, weather and local life that ran from 1993 to 1999, was a hit.
The session was part of a pilot program pairing anxiety-prone business school students at American University with amiable, if unpredictable, dogs.
Ms. Silverman and her cast find an amiable gentleness that matches Mr. Lipton's low-key absurdism, which makes everything all the funnier.
The amiable alien who presides as D.J. and M.C. over this production, which is directed by Andrew Scoville, is named Flobot Owens.
But soon this duo was teasing out the tensions and disruptive phrases that unfold below the seemingly amiable surface of the music.
Oddball and amiable, "Lodge 49" looked for meaning in sports-bar restaurants and closing aerospace factories, and it found a peculiar magic.
Ho Chi Minh, often romanticized as an amiable nationalist, was in fact a merciless despot who inflicted "systemic cruelties" on his people.
Though outwardly amiable, Mr. Sanders's inner circle fractured between some long-serving counselors and relative newcomers, like Faiz Shakir, his campaign manager.
"He was not as serious as I thought, but instead very amiable," Mr. Zhang told the newspaper China Space News in 2015.
The character is an amiable-to-the-point-of-toothless sendup of Smith's celebrity persona and many of the roles he's played.
The landing in front of the model becomes an amiable scrum with strangers helping families pose and people trading phones and cameras.
My amiable server, Aaron, told me I was at the table where former Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, sat when he dined here.
Some congressional sources believe the amiable Meadows might have a better shot of winning the post in a contest with Jordan, however.
Jim Nabors found fame as TV's amiable bumpkin Gomer Pyle, originally in a supporting role on "The Andy Griffith Show" in 1962.
Engaged Capital has no interest in negotiating with the company's board to reach an "amiable" resolution, Rent-A-Center said in a filing.
Mean Howard is a successful asshole spy, brimming with confidence and competence, while nice Howard is an amiable nonentity and a good person.
Today, that feels truer than ever, as we all welcome back a familiar face: Phil Collins, the amiable sprite of pre-Internet pop.
In an interview with a journalist at the scene, Kok was amiable and charismatic, drunk on exposure as he stuttered through the interview.
Even so, it's another epoch in Apple's long history, rich with symbolism and one that presents a unique opportunity for its amiable CEO.
Gorsuch, a cool-headed and amiable jurist, sat quietly, sometimes smiling, nodding or taking written notes before getting to deliver his own statement.
I have one good friend who regularly encounters this editor at their house of worship and says that he is amiable and courteous.
Should Johnson become prime minister, the U.S. president could probably expect an amiable relationship similar to the one he has enjoyed with May.
The snippets of story and amiable cast, certainly, but more so the ability to just soak in the world at his own pace.
Huffman was the amiable can, the one we could all sympathize with as he was pummeled by fists and life and a woman.
But Everett's amiable tone, and especially his captivating anecdotes from his field studies in the Amazonian rain forests, will help the neophyte along.
Bryan is a patient decorator with guitar, never overpowering an arrangement, and as a rhythm section, Felber and Sonefeld are insistent but amiable.
Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, wrote a book describing an amiable but inattentive and unsophisticated president whose funny math disguised rising deficits.
As far as air traffic goes, the skies aren't amiable — they're at best benign, and are rendered so by watchful humans in towers.
There, Gallant brought a toughness to the ice and an amiable persona to the locker room, making him immensely popular with his teammates.
Thomas Carnegie, considered the better-looking and more amiable younger brother of the industrialist Andrew Carnegie, was one of his great-great-grandfathers.
So this amiable troupe offers a streamlined one-act, one-hour version of the tale of Princess Aurora and all that befalls her.
They have landed on a spooky, amiable anthem about letting loose that sticks to familiar country themes but offers some winking frictions, too.
Most songs here moan about brittle young relationships over the musical equivalent of bringing an amiable golden retriever along for an unhurried jog.
It's amiable, inventive and idiosyncratic, one of this year's most intriguing hip-hop albums and also a bold statement of left-field pop.
The secretary has taken heat for his amiable interactions with the monarch after images were released of Pompeo smiling with him on camera.
Mr. Hamblin is at his best in "If Our Bodies Could Talk" on those rare occasions when he drops his dementedly amiable tone.
What is meant to be an amiable conversation can potentially lead to misunderstandings, hurt, and in extreme cases, hatred for an entire ethnicity.
The text accompanied a photo of Cataldo, a rosy-cheeked woman with a neat brown bob, cuddling with her amiable-looking bald husband.
"I need those singing creatures kept away from my door," he complains, rather winningly, to his clerk, Bob Cratchit (the amiable Dashiell Eaves).
Directed, like "Great Negro Works," by John Pierson, "The Fourth Reich" is a monologue by an amiable middle-aged man (Eric Dean White).
Unlike the famously calamitous making of the original Blade Runner, which Ford once described as "a bitch," Villeneuve's set hummed with brisk, amiable efficiency.
"As we walked around we heard music," said the amiable Mr. Gallagher, who spent much of the morning chasing after 16-month-old Viola.
Michal Kurtyka, the amiable Polish bureaucrat who chaired the proceedings, turned apparent haplessness into a virtue, leaving delegates space to thrash out their differences.
Veronica uses a bus driver's cap and an endlessly amiable Reggie (Charles Melton) to con her dad's underlings into handing over their crime dues.
The Namibian government's amiable chief negotiator, Zedekia Ngavirue, himself a Nama, has been castigated by some of Mr Rukoro's team as a sell-out.
Cruise ships and screaming matches Still, Gonzalez was amiable, yet a powerful force in the talks, according to several people involved in the discussions.
Indiana also sometimes seemed like an amiable anti-assimilationist bored by his own reckless bitchery, but I liked the rhythms of his cynical prose.
Newbies include an amiable Stephen Amell as a hockey-stick-wielding good guy, Tyler Perry as a mad scientist and the great Laura Linney.
Correa, an amiable man of sixty-three, was bald and corpulent, and dressed in a gray suit, a pink shirt, and a burgundy tie.
The song's amiable and has Brian Eno on the beat, while the video follows some cute cartoon aliens as they flee their home planet.
"'Sing' is relentlessly amiable, and has little in the way of vulgar humor," Glenn Kenny wrote in his review for The New York Times.
The amiable and soft visage of the female in Nolde's Portrait of a Woman with Dark Hair cast an inevitably dreaminess over the subject.
In completed form, "The Endless Summer" had a musical soundtrack from the Sandals, a surf-rock band, and an amiable narration by Mr. Brown.
The amiable cast members include Chris Hoch as Cher's high-powered lawyer dad and Dave Thomas Brown as her disapproving (but secretly adoring) stepbrother.
Good ol' Erik Agard must be pretty amiable, as he's collaborated with no fewer than eight other constructors in the last couple of years.
Since the fifth season, which aired in 2014, this amiable competition of nonprofessional bakers has averaged over 10 million viewers a week in Britain.
So his amiable French business partner, Jacques (Arnaud Viard), has offered to drive Anne to her destination — via seemingly every notable restaurant en route.
But critics contend that West Germany's amiable dealings with the Soviet bloc left those regimes' opponents -- such as persecuted political dissidents -- in the lurch.
They are generally amiable and accommodating, but when they are high they become agitated and accost me, threatening harm if I call the police.
The servers, casually dressed, verbose, and amiable, are happy to elaborate, offering many words, before you even order, on the "journey" you'll be taking.
Close your eyes and imagine that your eventual flight is on time, that the boarding experience is pleasant and that your seatmate is amiable.
I was warming the ball up with a Swede named Anders Wahlstedt, an amiable art dealer who was once No. 28 in the world.
But, in what our correspondent calls "one of the most striking transformations in modern diplomacy," he's restyling himself as an amiable diplomat and peacemaker.
It's a breather that Peele uses for light jokes and intimacy (Duke's amiable performance provides levity and warmth) while he scatters narrative bread crumbs.
"Bush and Reagan had a very amiable relationship, and he had access to anything Reagan had," a former Reagan adviser told the Times in 1981.
In a White House marked by turnover, the amiable Pence has been a quiet presence prodding the administration to align with his faith-based agenda.
While they did topical material, mocking targets that are now long forgotten, many of their funniest bits are timeless comedic premises performed with amiable understatement.
Michal Kurtyka, the amiable Polish bureaucrat who chaired the proceedings, turned apparent haplessness into a virtue, by leaving delegates space to thrash out their differences.
The film is broad enough to integrate its female-empowerment message into the overall air of amiable anarchy, instead of turning it into shrill moralizing.
Grassley said on Monday that he would "absolutely" support Graham's investigation and suggested that Democrats could be more amiable now that Mueller's probe has concluded.
"800 Words" is the definition of lightweight, but it's amiable and touching, and it's easy to get sucked in by its scenic and anthropological charms.
It's closer to the low end, but for fans of a certain earlier strain of his work, its shambling, amiable vibe may seem comfortingly familiar.
But mostly it's just God up there, chatting away like an amiable neighbor who has just settled down on your sofa for a good gossip.
Reflective, wise and amiable, Marzorati is the kind of person and tennis player you'd be happy to share a game with and a beer afterward.
The crime is grisly, but Jong-gu is an amiable, likable fellow; his endearing personality gives the first quarter of the film a comic underpinning.
In his online videos, the young, bushy-bearded cleric apppears earnest and amiable while discussing politics and religion with comrades, but thunderous when denouncing enemies.
"Free Around You" is a perfect distillation why they work so well together—their twinkling guitars and amiable voices interlock in this wonderfully plaintive way.
The two amiable rapper/singers have long hinted at a fully-fledged collaborative project together, and the world may be getting closer to that reality.
It's an amiable and permeable symbolic barrier through which people come and go at will — to work, to buy and sell, to hide, to disappear.
Her dad "would chat with everyone, whether it was the plumber or someone important," said Amber, who maintains the same amiable spirit in her kitchen.
"He has an amiable look about him that people mistake for through and through softness," said an aide, who described him as tough and courageous.
The full premiere of this two-act work arrives on June 4; I hope it will seem of greater consequence than these amiable, chirpy excerpts.
Dr. Laurie Fleisher, the amiable director of urgent care, recalled seeing a sixteen-year-old girl who hadn't been to the dentist in five years.
Filmed in Los Angeles, but keeping its setting anonymous, this amiable look at life on the margins gradually accumulates a melancholy that punctures the drollness.
On release from Sing Sing, he tries to seduce his best buddy, Petey (Bobby Cannavale, in maximum amiable oaf mode), and steals a muscle car.
Vacanti is in his mid-sixties, tall and stoop-shouldered, with short gray hair and an amiable tendency to credit his achievements to good luck.
On the air, in print and in personal appearances, they combined amiable banter and gentle ribbing with earnest explorations of shared beliefs and quests for comity.
The only hint of vocal bravado in this otherwise amiable movie comes when Naomi Scott opens her mouth to belt out her musical statements of purpose.
It seems to me that when De Forest became what his fans like about him — amiable, kooky, and funny — he became less interesting and even predictable.
His reconstruction of himself as an amiable man who had spoken to groups like Hamas only in the interests of achieving peace was a media triumph.
Airbnb's more amiable approach could be strategic, thanks to the fact it faces a far more complicated regulatory landscape than Uber and far too many fights.
Sanders generally came across as prepared and amiable (yes, he faced that same old question about how he would pay for his free public college programs).
We never spoke of it again, but the next day, he transformed from being a big bully to being polite, amiable, and genuinely interested in me.
Upon winning the lion's share of votes, the new president, as amiable as "a Tunisian neighborhood grocer," puts France under a benevolent form of Sharia law.
But it's updated with the risqué attitude of "Men" — on which Mr. Kutcher appeared as Charlie Sheen's amiable replacement — and some not-for-prime-time content.
In addition, the rapper's amiable personality allows him to build friendships with ease—a skill that paved the way for his tour with Chicago artist Saba.
And Khalid, who was recently crowned the most streamed artist in the world, brings his amiable musical style to the Garden (July 31-Aug. 1). ♦
With his abundant gray hair, lustrous beard and mellifluous voice, he is an amiable philosopher-elder of the road: Bruce Chatwin in a GMC cargo van.
Fitzharris, on the other hand, was cursed with an amiable subject, which perhaps makes him a less exciting figure than other hothead surgeons of his day.
The amiable breakfast with Jim Balsillie turned briefly awkward when McNamee insisted that Balsillie stop using his BlackBerry, which runs on Android, and buy an iPhone.
But it quickly became clear — both when it was new and when an amiable revival opened on Saturday afternoon — that Mr. Eyre's take was pretty toothless.
Amiable and ludicrous, "The Secret Life of Bees" has sold millions of copies worldwide and was made into a movie starring Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning.
Pryce is an amiable, sympathetic presence, with legible facial expressions and an impressive ability to make himself understood in four of the five languages spoken onscreen.
Following their amiable exchange, Cruz turned to Tribe, the liberal lion who agrees with conservatives that the Second Amendment protects individual rights but challenges the absolutist view.
Take Mrs Clinton off stage, and even a generic Democrat as amiable as Mr Kaine struggles to defend the status quo in a time of voter rage.
No wonder the amiable Jekyll in public turned into a vicious Hyde in private—abusing, assaulting, belittling, stalking, and eventually murdering the woman he professed to love.
Along with two well-known Democratic politicians on this list is the amiable and well-liked DeGeneres, who is not and has not been involved in government.
Tours of the cantina are led by Milena, the engaging matriarch, and her amiable daughter, Francesca, who intersperse explanations of terroir and winemaking techniques with family lore.
Fred (Francis Guinan) is almost childishly amiable, given to saying things like "shooty shoot shoot" when upset, and ready at any moment to share his Nutter Butters.
The couples try to settle parenting issues over an amiable dinner, but Madeline vomits when Nathan tells her that Abigail's college project involves selling her virginity online.
They rose in the ranks not by being amiable but by puffing cigarettes, breaking curfew and pulling pranks on unsuspecting nerds, among whom I soon found myself.
The ideal treatment, of course, would be a dose of Sanditon, but, for now, he and his wife take refuge with an amiable family called the Heywoods.
JON PARELES His turn as Prince in full Purple Rain regalia, from the purple sequin jacket to the black eyeliner, wasn't ribald, but it was amiable enough.
Lindsey Vonn, much closer to her career's end than its start, still prides herself on being amiable, but she unquestionably tends to be more cautious and watchful.
Okja, a car-sized, pig-like creature with the face of an amiable hippo, was conceived by the Mirando corporation to bring down meat costs and increase production.
But by adding the usually amiable and less-than-serious voice of Federighi to the fray, Apple may be subtly appealing to its strongest advocates: hardcore Apple fans.
Take Mrs Clinton off the stage, and even a generic Democrat as amiable as Mr Kaine struggles to defend the status quo in a time of voter rage.
I'm talking about Cliff Huxtable, Mr. Cosby's alter ego, the amiable obstetrician he played in "The Cosby Show," the pioneering television hit of the 1980s and early '90s.
Pinkstone reports that Apple's Tom and Ezra were amiable and professional, and they were aided by colleagues back at Cupertino who were connected in via multiple conference calls.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, in its 2007 profile, cautioned readers that Mr. Weymouth was "more than an amiable dilettante, amusing swell and flamboyant eccentric" before cataloging his conservation efforts.
Jew and gentile, God and man, or (to recall the terms of her "amiable discussion" with Bloom), God and idol: These are categories that should not be muddled.
For fans of a certain earlier strain of Mr. Allen's work, the comedy's "shambling, amiable vibe may seem comfortingly familiar," Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times.
Even with the amiable Ms. Bocanegra as a guide, this presentation of research — and many slides, which awkwardly, didn't always appear as planned on Thursday — is theatrically lethargic.
"If the chain isn't work-related, however, Glei gives a more personal example to keep things amiable: "Sean — Would you mind moving me to 'bcc' when you respond?
As he was creating Middle-earth, J.R.R. Tolkien often read passages of his work-in-progress to the Inklings, the amiable Oxford literary group that included C.S. Lewis.
For years, Mr. Nelson has been the Democrats' folksy exception in statewide races, his amiable moderation held up as the template for hanging on through persistent political headwinds.
During the weekend's match-ups, the amiable Santos led the charge alongside veteran Erika de Souza, 33, to spare Brazil any embarrassment; they blew out Venezuela, 112-41.
The Owl & Turtle Bookshop Café in Camden is the place to dish or talk books and coffee with the owners, Craig and Maggie White, and their amiable staff.
He proves an amiable and sympathetic guide to Anne's life, but one wishes to hear more of the story as she herself might have chosen to tell it.
The unpretentious and engaging dialogues between passionate artists — the bewitching writer in whose novels music plays a prominent part and the indefatigable, amiable conductor — make the pages fly.
"It's amiable and touching, and it's easy to get sucked in by its scenic and anthropological charms," Mike Hale wrote in a review in The New York Times.
These aren't three amiable art teachers: They're the Hudson River School painters Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome, Susie M. Barstow and Harriet Cany Peale, and they'll attend in spirit only.
Roy is a bit paunchy and disheveled, with an amiable, jowly face; he has the air of a college professor who likes taking students out for a drink.
Instead, the show pulled from the episodic Next Generation model: A mostly amiable group of explorers spend their time meeting new alien cultures and dealing with space phenomena.
We shopped at Ranch Candy, an oddities-and-gift shop on the main drag, and chatted with the shop owner, an amiable guy with wide silver-rimmed glasses.
With its jumbled plotting and thin characterisation, "BlacKkKlansman" resembles a farcical, feel-good episode of a 1970s cop show in which some amiable police officers outwit some stupid rednecks.
Each brims with a collage of seemingly unrelated images, where amiable design elements such as antique lace and quilt patterns act as a host structure for the artist's research.
I was happy to be guided through that, and always was very considerate and amiable about us consulting about it, but I also have to make film-worthy clothes.
Every approach will be different, including based on whether the person is working in a very high-pressure, fast-paced environment or a more slow-paced and amiable one.
Standing near Times Square the other day, digitally unenhanced, he resembled any other tourist—an amiable, bearded fifty-three-year-old Brit with a camera hanging from his neck.
Shaw frequently wrote and said that he saw Eliza going on to marry Freddy, an amiable upper-class suitor (a love-sick puppy in Bobby Conte Thornton's emotional portrayal).
Granted, the only hint we've been given for P3 is his writing credit on Rihanna's "Work", a considerably more amiable and inviting piece of music than Party's regular production.
Tracy Letts and Debra Winger play two people in an amiable but passionless long-term marriage; both of them have been cheating, and both are making plans to leave.
Mr. Scott, an amiable, Scripture-quoting man with a shaved head and a warm smile, was introduced by John Hart, the editor in chief of a conservative media site.
But it's Lindstrom's producer name that is maybe most jarring for an amiable dude from north of the border: Murda Beatz, or just Murda to everyone who knows him.
The group's first album, out Friday, is "Straight Forward," a collection of amiable melodies with slippery swing feels, most written by the band members and other Posi-Tone artists.
And so here is "Hit Me Back," an extremely amiable and fun summer song about the ones who slip through your fingers, even when you try to hold on.
Opening weekend at the Boston Symphony's summer home starts on Friday with the amiable pianism of Emanuel Ax, in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, prefacing Mahler's Symphony No. 238.914.
In this classic for children, the life of Wilbur, the amiable pig on the Zuckerman farm, hangs by a thread — the one spun by the unusual eight-legged heroine.
But the mood of the series changes after the pilot; a show that was distinctive for being relaxed and amiable starts to feel a little more forced and artificial.
The president turned the screws in a less amiable way Wednesday by telling senators they should not leave town for the August recess without finishing their work on healthcare.
One morning I received a call from an amiable person who had invited me to speak at a school on Holocaust Remembrance Day about my family's surviving the deportations.
Ms. Lovibond ("Elementary") and Mr. Landes have an amiable rapport that could keep you coming back, but they're not going to make anyone forget Harrison Ford and Karen Allen.
Most are amiable curiosities, but "Blonde Venus," directed by Josef von Sternberg, and two pre-Code Mae West films, "She Done Him Wrong" and "I'm No Angel," are classics.
Subhash Kapoor's "Jolly LLB" from 2013 was a middling film saved by the comic timing of leading man Arshad Warsi and Saurabh Shukla, who played the amiable but eccentric judge.
Struck by the group's amiable and interesting personalities, I'd somehow managed to persuade VICE to fund a half hour documentary about a barely known band touring through three different countries.
This is a great time to catch up on his past projects, which lack the superhero throwdowns and 'splosions, but have the same sort of goofy, amiable, self-effacing humor.
Then, in an amiable, unhurried tone, with gentle waves of his hands, Mr. Clinton reached for a metaphor to describe the hopes and anxieties of voters in presidential election years.
It was brilliant because almost everyone else here desperately tried to give the crowd what they wanted; Kendrick, aloof but amiable, gave them what they didn't even know they needed.
And she's certainly earned a better love interest than Mike (Tyler Labine), a schlubby, amiable nothing of a character who hangs over the film's third act like a contractual obligation.
The mysteriously non-aging host, Sherman, is played by Salahuddin with amiable bombast and streaks of insecurity—during the first episode, he nearly passes out after an overambitious dance opener.
Alvère; the prehistoric limestone caves along the Vézère River; and the grape harvest in the fictional village of St. Denis, where the amiable Bruno Courrèges serves as chief of police.
The fifth member of the close-knit group, Charlie McIntyre, played by an amiable Terrence J., is a carefree, commitment-phobic talent agent who's an enthusiastic shutterbug on the side.
I tried to make eye contact with her while we were on air and thanked her profusely in front of Oktar, who himself seemed amiable, if not a bit geriatric.
The action unfolds in Oxford, but an Oxford unrecognizable from its spire-crowded postcard form — the city is a damp and threatening place of inns and drunks and amiable nuns.
The Petrel had invited a special guest for this mission: an amiable retired two-star admiral named Sam Cox, who now leads the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington.
A trombonist with an amiable, misty tone and an inquisitive instinct, Priester has been flouting the divide between jazz's mainstream and the avant-garde since before that line was drawn.
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.
The "farmer king" liked nothing better than to wander among his fields, talking happily to peasants, pigs and princes alike, not a tyrannical thought in his amiable, befuddled old mind.
These two performances are extraordinarily full, especially given how sparse the dialogue on the show is, and Jake Weber's warm sexiness as Annabelle's amiable booty call is a special treat.
Many in Silicon Valley extended a hand to the newly elected president, and tech's top leaders had what was by many accounts an amiable meeting with him in Trump Tower.
PARELES On this amiable song about tragic attractions, Bakar — who is from London, and delivers a bit of King Krule-esque dryness — sings about heartache with a stop-start casualness.
It doesn't envelope you completely, but it sticks with you -- for better or for worse -- no matter how you try to perfume it with another country's cherry-picked amiable traits.
With an amiable smile and a dependable confidence, she regularly visits the informal tent settlements throughout the Bekaa region to identify Syrian women and girls who are most at risk.
It is 1899; Christian (Aaron Tveit), an American romantic in Paris, falls in with an amiable group of Montmartre artists and bohemians led by the spunky Toulouse-Lautrec (Sahr Ngaujah).
An amiable host, Mr Cai shows Chaguan his laboratories, and points out the schools attended by his young children, amid the skyscrapers and building sites of Yantai's Economic Development Zone.
The couple limit their own combat to amiable wrangling about the apartment's appointments, from the art (she'll take a still life; he favors photo realism) to the cutlery and china.
It's a minor gag, but that moment sums up so much about The Farthest, an amiable, upbeat doc where the director and her interviewees are all in on the joke together.
In Souk al-Qamash, a covered textile market surmounted by three high domes and ringed by a frieze of scallop-carved stones, Mohammed Maymi, short and amiable, was repainting his shop.
The prosecution countered that it was Mr. Cosby who had been a deceiver, hiding behind his amiable image as America's Dad to prey on women that he first incapacitated with intoxicants.
Like Albus, Scorpius is a Hogwarts newbie and the two boys seem destined to become best friends, along with an amiable young woman with blue-tipped hair, Delphi Diggory (Esther Smith).
Yes, he did, which is very daring, considering that this is one of his charming mysteries set in the beautiful Périgord region of France and featuring his amiable sleuth, Bruno Courrèges.
Still, Meyer is an amiable narrator, and he introduces the reader to some of China's greatest paradoxes, notably a pride in history that coexists with a compulsion to destroy the past.
"Texoma Shore" is autopilot Shelton: amiable, rapscallionish, but with a few concessions to the current moment, in which oafs have brushed their hair, shaved their scruff and tried to make right.
A sort of "Me, God and the Dying Girl," the movie is well-made (if slow) and features an attractive cast and a lot of amiable (if bland) religious pop-rock.
My driver, an amiable 6-foot-8 Jamaican man who grew up in Canarsie, became star-struck when Lee came to meet our car and did not want to pull away.
While the leaders did hold amiable discussions throughout both the dinner and other sessions, the exchange on Russia was notable for the fiercely argued views on both sides, the officials said.
Rewind Despite its amiable spirit of inclusion, Agnès Varda's pop paean to sisterhood, "One Sings, the Other Doesn't," proved divisive from the night it opened the 1977 New York Film Festival.
But Hicks and Kelly enjoyed an amiable working relationship and did not feud in the way the retired Marine general has with other top officials, people familiar with their dynamic said.
Dogged throughout by irate church representatives, Mr. Theroux exhibits an amiable diffidence that dilutes their threats, employing their own jargon ("He seems enturbulated") to reveal them as more silly than sinister.
It's mostly an amiable, fitfully funny spoof of 1980s science fiction movies and TV, directly and indirectly referencing The Last Starfighter, Back To The Future, Quantum Leap, and The Terminator, among others.
I have watched my share of these conversations, and while they have offered plenty of amiable chatter, it would be a stretch to suggest they've advanced our thinking about tech and society.
It is clear that Trump wishes to be amiable: the man nominated as ambassador to the UK, Professor Ted Malloch, has said the UK will get a trade deal within 12 months.
It's an amiable thriller that will definitely account for an enjoyable couple of hours in the lives of Netflix subscribers, though it likely won't leave the same impact as Niccol's best work.
President Donald Trump was apparently eager to forge a friendship with fellow world leader Emmanuel Macron amid a state visit on Tuesday — but two headline-making moments seemed more awkward than amiable.
"I Feel You" is best thought of as a travelogue, with Beam an amiable and skeptical tour guide to places where a new understanding of empathy has led to new, successful applications.
Critic's Notebook The early front-runner in Season 9 of "American Idol" was Andrew Garcia, an amiable pop-R&B singer with a smooth voice, a neck tattoo and a relaxed mien.
This Australian hit "is the definition of lightweight, but it's amiable and touching, and it's easy to get sucked in by its scenic and anthropological charms," Mike Hale wrote in The Times.
There's little time to characterize Maya's husband, Jimmy (John Ross Bowie), as more than an amiable peacemaker, or daughter, Dylan (Kyla Kenedy), as more than a kid who's really into running track.
Nine years earlier that refusal led to her divorce, and since then she has left Israel for a job with a Dutch orchestra and drifted into an amiable affair with a colleague.
Ben Rhodes, who served Barack Obama as a foreign policy adviser and speechwriter from beginning to end, has written a book that reflects the president he served — intelligent, amiable, compelling and principled.
Mr. Cosby is not being prosecuted for his alleged encounter with Ms. Johnson, but her testimony offered a stark rebuttal to his longstanding persona as an amiable comedian and beloved television dad.
He showed his amiable side and delighted in the strength of the stock market, while also making it clear that the investigation into his team's dealings with Russia was a sore point.
As the founder and C.E.O. of Google Ventures, Maris led successful investments in companies such as Nest and Uber; he was amiable, admired, and financially secure—not an obvious modern-day alchemist.
By then, you realize that its confiding, soliloquizing title character is not quite the amiable host you thought he was, and you're most likely feeling guilty for having egged him on earlier.
In his short pants, sweatshirt and knitted wool hat, Mr. Natanzon could look like an amiable loser to his easy marks, as he baited them with his nonstop babble and swaggering hubris.
Paul Davis is an amiable lawyer and former state representative running even with his Republican opponent, Steve Watkins, in a heavily rural, overwhelmingly white district that President Donald Trump carried by 18 points.
"After she spoke to me, I made up my mind that in today's times, nobody wants more than two children," said Krishna Yadav, 35, gesturing at an amiable gray-haired woman standing nearby.
A few local figures are on hand to fill in the blanks for him: His amiable driver Yousef (Alexander Black) is a handy cultural interpreter, albeit a lackadaisical and sometimes dangerously irresponsible one.
"He understands the intelligence community, as you know he was a US ambassador to Germany so he has that experience in foreign policy, and he's a very amiable, easy-to-work-with person."
The Contact comparisons are apt for a lot of reasons: the female-scientist protagonist with an amiable but judgmental male foil who doesn't forward the plot much, but does provide a sounding board.
"Blue Jay," Alex Lehmann's amiable black-and-white film about ex-lovers who meet by chance two decades after breaking up, has the inestimable benefit of Sarah Paulson's emotional electricity zapping through it.
Is the amiable-seeming Gene, an amnesiac war veteran played by Rory Keenan, actually Jack Fox, the son of a snobbish Long Island family among whom he finds himself after 15 years away?
There's also Luis, an amiable slum resident who Mr. Alpert misses on one visit because he's doing prison time for working the black market — an activity he cheerfully returns to on his release.
Several advisers said the president may curse them for a minor transgression — like bringing an unknown aide into his presence without warning — then make amiable small talk with the same person minutes later.
At the time and still today, McKinley was regarded as a stolid, amiable figure, but plodding or nearly inert, more or less carried along by forces he could not or would not control.
The 2003th District has long been the domain of Senator William J. Larkin Jr., an amiable octogenarian who is fond of mentioning World War II in speeches on the Senate floor in Albany.
Until recently, the conventional wisdom had been that, after a first round of voting, Le Pen would face Alain Juppé, the amiable mayor of Bordeaux and a former Prime Minister, in a runoff.
Reiner sits down for amiable, unselfconsciously humorous chats with famous nonagenarians like Betty White, Dick Van Dyke, Stan Lee, Norman Lear, and Kirk Douglas, as well as Reiner's longtime comedic associate Mel Brooks.
Of course, an amiable laxness with story structure is a hazard of the all-over style — at first, the pace lags — but in a short book like this, a little slowness is not fatal.
But nobody died or cried or curled up under the table to sleep, and the décor in the sitting room in the Houston Four Seasons was amiable, and there were mints on the table.
And while, in Mozart's day, a wind serenade was usually an amiable evening piece, he scored this one for an extra-large ensemble, including four horns and a string bass to fortify the harmonies.
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.
I climbed into a sled, and my amiable and capable guide, Jussi Rauhala, used a snowmobile to tow me to the camp, two and a half miles across the frozen surface of Lake Kilpisjärvi.
His father, who had changed his name from Irving Joel Raefsky, was a cartoonist and illustrator who did covers for Collier's magazine and drew a syndicated strip, Pottsy, about an amiable New York policeman.
The man now running BSEE, Scott Angelle, is an amiable Louisiana politician and friend of the oil industry who called for an early end to the temporary drilling moratorium imposed after the gulf spill.
As I chatted with the amiable owner and admired the antiques and old photos that adorned the walls, another customer started to teach my girlfriend a technique for trapping alligators with her bare hands.
Finch is an amiable, if somewhat garrulous, companion as he takes readers on a journey from the island of Monomoy in the south to the wild dune country of the Provincelands in the north.
The murders are certainly macabre, but the best fun is running all over the city with these amiable partners, meeting the denizens of the night and poking into this vast repository of ghoulish secrets.
In Francis Ford Coppola's "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" (1988), he was cast as the title character's amiable hustler of a business partner as they challenged the Big Three automakers in the 1940s.
Cut back to Ken Hawks, her amiable milchidik bedmate who is directing an airplane epic, and wouldn't you know it, while shooting a flying scene, his own plane crashes and Mary is a widow.
From the beginning, Hemsworth and Thompson have an amiable, low-intensity dynamic that keeps the banter from being particularly sharp or witty, and that makes the stakes feel low no matter how the plotline shifts.
It's the only truly jarring misstep in this feel-good confection of mystical postcards and amiable one-eyed dogs, in which every tragedy ends in uplift and you can see the grace coming for miles.
Eisenhower may have played the part of an amiable duffer, but he may have been the best prepared president we have ever had — a five-star general with an unparalleled knowledge of national security affairs.
He's less amiable when corporate makes sweeping, company-wide changes to ticket valuation in the same way one might be upset if the Federal Reserve suddenly chose to double the amount of currency in circulation.
Not even because the British sleuth famed for having "solved more murders than anyone in the history of the Metropolitan Police" is an amiable fool whose celebrated cases were all solved by his household staff.
The Branch Davidians are generally shown as an amiable, levelheaded, fun-loving bunch, who stockpile guns in preparation for the end times but also play a credible cover of "My Sharona" at a local bar.
"We did cooperate with this process," Soriano told Chris Bailey, a former journalist with The Manchester Evening News who referred to the club as "we" and "us" in his direct but amiable questioning of Soriano.
Open Book Black History Month this year brings with it a significant addition to the history of African-American literature: "Amiable With Big Teeth," a "lost" novel by the notable Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay.
On the face of it, the amiable Spaniard has transformed the footballing fortunes of the oil-rich nation since taking over as their 11th head coach in the space of a decade in July, 2017.
This represents the first non-comic leading role for Robinson (moviegoers will know him from "Pineapple Express" and "Hot Tub Time Machine," among other films), and he commands it with a gruff and amiable ease.
In the 1990s and 2000s he released albums as a leader on his own label, Vincent Nguini Records, which mingled intricately layered, globe-hopping instrumentals with amiable Afropop songs topped by his own lead vocals.
Published by legendary City Lights in late 2016, this alluring collection of amiable reminiscences was penned by co-founding Surrealist poet Philippe Soupault (1897–1990) and first appeared in French in 1963 as Profils perdus.
Even if I wasn't planning on returning as soon as a pair of Roark board shorts with a nifty Scottish thistle pattern in my size arrives, I'd return just to visit the amiable shop pooch, Lincoln.
Mr. Frank Sinatra, an amiable young singer of popular songs, is inspiring extraordinary personal devotion on the part of many thousands of young people, and particularly young girls between the ages of, say, twelve and eighteen.
While my seat mate found more joy in the film than I did, we agreed emphatically on one thing: The dog named Aynsley — practical, smart and amiable, with an endearing Scottish burr — enlivens the movie greatly.
In contrast, Mr. Schreiber — who is usually musky with sex appeal (as in "Ray Donovan" on television) — comes across as cloddish and amiable, an old-old-school frat boy stuck in culottes and an unflattering wig.
My overall relationship with TNR and some of its editors is like mine with a few other publications: respectful and amiable, with fairly steady work in the $250 to $500 range, the fees sometimes spiking higher.
Mr. Peretz and the screenwriters (Evgenia Peretz, the director's sister, is credited along with Tamara Jenkins and Jim Taylor) find an amiable farcical groove, and the actors embrace the ridiculousness of the circumstances without overdoing it.
An amiable doofus, Chester is so caught up in his own irrepressible good cheer that he doesn't notice how bored Roxanne is, and he makes the mistake of hiring the first mysterious hunk who walks in.
While they may often disagree on fundamental matters, senators spend time together on the floor, in the gym and at countless hearings, and they often develop amiable and respectful relationships over the many years they coexist.
An amiable waitress instructed the crew to cook "everything until there's no slimy meat juice": wise counsel that a barbecue novice took to heart, bravely wielding the tongs until the meat was pink at its center.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in an atmosphere that was noticeably more amiable than past meetings, reflecting new diplomacy the two Cold War superpowers have championed in recent weeks.
And even if Donald, Nancy and Chuck are never again an amiable trio, the damage has already been done to any campaign that relies on convicting a candidate based on guilt by association with Nancy Pelosi.
Trump has fostered amiable ties with some of the other G20 leaders -- including Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has adopted some of Trump's populist themes, and Argentine President Mauricio Macri, who he knew as a business developer.
Ingrained in my developing brain for years was this need to constantly be amiable, kind, self-sacrificial, relaxed, incredibly put together, and to carry on the always un-achievable "not like other girls" aura expected of me.
In the one-minute video, which was posted on YouTube earlier this month, Daugherty is portrayed as an amiable family man who can't stop talking about how to fix problems in Travis County, in south central Texas.
I think it also helps that a lot of conservative entertainment, or docutainment or whatever this is, is just bad and unfunny, while D'Souza has refined his shtick into something amiable, conspiratorial, and not too high-brow.
Still, Sanders supporters may be more willing to swallow the bitter pill of Clinton's presidency due to Kaine, but only if he uses his track record in policy and genuinely amiable nature to compensate his reserved nature.
Fillmore's successor, the Democrat Franklin Pierce — an amiable man who was pliable and prone to depression and drink — entered the White House in 1853 grieving the death of his 11-year-old son in a train wreck.
On Brown's "Experiment" — on streaming services, though not on the physical CD — it's "Lost in the Middle of Nowhere," an amiable duet with the Mexican-American pop singer Becky G that casually bridges country and Latin pop.
As he tries to get to the root of her problems (including the lingering pain from the demise of a long-term relationship), they develop something like a friendship, or an amiable case of opposites-must-interact.
It doesn't help that the director puts so much of himself into the doc, making his conversations with Gates seem like two amiable acquaintances shooting the breeze, rather than like a journalist pushing hard for meaningful answers.
"Steve is a perfectly amiable guy, but he does not have the intellectual gravitas for this important job," wrote Greg Mankiw, a Harvard economics professor who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers for former President George W. Bush.
During his visit to the United States Monday and Tuesday, Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing extremist sworn in as Brazil's president in January, appeared visibly giddy at the prospect of meeting Donald Trump, gamely playing the amiable ally.
He is an amiable fellow who at the age of 26 has only had one season in which he averaged in double-figures in scoring, and he is currently holding on to his N.B.A. career by his fingertips.
In the political order of the pre-Trump era, Spicer represented a Washington ''type'' in good standing: an amiable plodder in his job as spokesman for the Republican National Committee and a stock character of the local ensemble.
Over the course of 50 minutes, the often-fiery Mr. Trump demonstrated his more amiable side, joking about holding hands with the president of France and musing about having a military parade down a main avenue in Washington.
TOM BOWMANNational Public Radio's Pentagon correspondentAlexandria, Virginia William Boot, the brilliant creation of Evelyn Waugh in "Scoop", his satire on newspapers and British imperial politics during the grubby 1930s, was an amiable eccentric who succeeded in spite of himself.
" (Paramount) VICTOR VICTORIA Blake Edwards adapted this cross-dressing, gender-bending farce, a vehicle for his wife Julie Andrews and the ever-amiable James Garner — now on Blu-ray — from Reinhold Schünzel's 1933 German musical film "Viktor und Viktoria.
But after a few years, the amiable Mr. LaHoste had had quite enough of the floors being taped to mark off what the stage area would be when the actors got into the theater, enough of on-site emoting.
In choosing Mr. Branstad, 20133, an amiable politician who likes to describe President Xi Jinping of China as an "old friend," Mr. Trump sounded a softer note alongside his unrelenting criticism of China's economic relationship with the United States.
It was clear from the first words out of Kavanaugh's mouth that he had shed the amiable veneer he brought to his television appearance and channeled the defiance Trump himself had shown the previous day when defending his nominee.
He already takes considerable heat for his unaccountable warmth toward Russia's Vladimir Putin as well as North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Proven poor judgment on bin Salman would open his amiable antics with those autocrats to even more scrutiny.
Among them is Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, the 64-year-old incoming archbishop of Newark, N.J. He's an amiable guy from a working-class neighborhood in Detroit who has ministered to the poor, AIDS patients and death-row inmates.
A tall, amiable man in his late thirties, who combines the no-nonsense manner of a sports coach with the academic enthusiasm of a scholar, Murray is widely considered to be one of the best performance analysts in the world.
Al Cameron, Curling Canada's amiable media relations director, likened it to the "Iron Byron" robotic machine that is used to measure the performance of golf clubs by replicating the same swing, at the same angle and force, over and over.
Napolitano said on Fox News that he believes Ford's testimony has put Kavanaugh in a "far deeper hole," and went as far as to suggest that Mitchell's questioning solidified Ford's credibility by allowing the witness to give "amiable, rational, emotional" answers.
Instead, bursting with brand-new maternal pride, I revealed the secret of my fecund abdomen to anyone it made sense to do so in person: diner waitresses, vague acquaintances I ran into at auditions, any of my more amiable Lyft drivers.
The German social critic Theodor W. Adorno wrote that "divorce, even between good-natured, amiable, educated people, is apt to stir up a dust-cloud that covers and discolors all it touches," an insight that Baumbach illustrates with vivid precision.
On Washington Senior members of Congress and their aides used to give me a hard time for paying too much attention to Representative Mike Pence, an amiable conservative from Indiana who wore his staunch ideology and evangelical Christianity on his sleeve.
They fetched an old family friend, the somewhat dimwitted but amiable John Fox, from the ship he worked on and moved him into the house to act as caretaker — and to pawn the boys' watches, so that they remained in funds.
Toward the end of our relationship, it had been our thing to sit in amiable silence and watch hours of reality TV drama unfolding in massive walk-in closets full of Birkin bags, themselves in big cities across the country.
You can feel their amiable chemistry in any one of their countless, "Where'd the hell you find that track!?" b2b sets, as well as through the efforts of the bizarro, sample-rich label they run with Delfonic, Money $ex Records.
Set in a police station run by the buttoned-up Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher), "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" is part of the amiable, inclusive universe of network sitcoms overseen by Michael Schur, each about a workplace that doubles as a family.
"I want to start with a tale of audacity," Mr. de Blasio said, sounding more amiable than audacious, before ticking off his administration's accomplishments, which included universal pre-K, two rent freezes and free legal counsel for people facing eviction.
Williams was clearly eager to move on, so eager that she showed up at her postmatch news conference less than 10 minutes after the defeat, which irritated the normally amiable Austrian player Dominic Thiem, who had his own postmatch interview interrupted.
"He has a light," Mr. Gyllenhaal said during a chat with me late last year at his production offices in SoHo, which featured a hefty supply of addictive chocolate chip cookies and the amiable presence of Mr. Gyllenhaal's German shepherd, Atticus.
The vibe on the "Maniac" set was so amiable that during one visit, the crew was observing "Fukunaga Friday," in which they all walked around with Fukunaga's distinctive plaited pigtails, more and more of them as the day went on.
State Senator Rich Funke, an amiable second-term Republican from the Rochester area, said he wanted the extension of local taxes but also wanted money for flood relief for property owners along Lake Ontario, which has been spilling into homes.
Constant subtitles give the movie a foreignness that underscores the rarity of its point of view: When man and beast have wandered into the sunset, it's the amiable boredom of the streets, not their possible dangers, that remains lodged in the mind.
Cynthia OzickCreditCreditSasha Rudensky for The New York Times In the spring of 183, the literary critic Harold Bloom was invited to take part in "an amiable discussion of the rival claims of Judaism and the aesthetic" at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan.
There were smart echoes of tropicalía, Brazil's iconoclastic (and dictatorship-defying) music of the late 1960s, in the set by Ava Rocha and her band: amiable melodies, poetic lyrics, hints of Brazilian rhythms and taut arrangements that sometimes let the guitars get noisy.
In addition to compelling Smith to review scenes of his younger self, the film also made him consider his life from the perspective of Henry, an amiable working stiff who just wants to retire after a career of good and faithful murders.
He was amiable, charming, and intelligent and asked me to send self-help books by John C. Maxwell, such as The Power of Your Potential, because he wants to study and learn during his detention, and work hard when he gets out.
What's perhaps most surprising is seeing the one-time NBC hit relegated to an out-of-the-way spot on Spectrum, the cable distributor, where this amiable but disposable vanity project is likely to garner more media attention (hence this review) than viewers.
An amiable fifty-four-year-old with a long wisp of chin hair, he had grown rounder and softer since his own whale-hunting days, when he once helped repel a polar bear nosing into his tent by brandishing a cast-iron skillet.
The Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen (the name translates, approximately, as "large, low, shaggy dog of the Vendée") is a scenthound from France whose "whose mustache, beard, and profuse eyebrows suggest the look of a worldly but amiable Frenchman," per the American Kennel Club.
His performance might have been more impressive or even made him a viable candidate to reach the second round were it not for the fifth candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a gruff and amiable old-fashioned socialist who sucks away voters on Mr Hamon's left.
It's not to the level of that first film, but its amiable, ambling nature keeps it from becoming too boxed in by its needlessly contorted plot (which all but spoils its own ending very early on, then spends roughly an hour futilely avoiding said ending).
The film keeps all its scientists in lab coats and jumpsuits as though science couldn't possibly be performed without the right uniform, and treats its science-wizards almost as a separate species—a faintly daffy and obsessive species, but still an amiable enough one.
The barrage of questions on Russia-related matters was nothing new to a White House that has been buried week-after-week by developments in the investigation into ties between Trump campaign associates and Russia, and scrutiny over Trump's relatively amiable posture toward Russia.
The amiable bear Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw) finds a one-of-a-kind pop-up book filled with intricate illustrations of all the landmarks of London, and he plans to send the book to Peru as a birthday present for his beloved aunt Lucy.
Sitting in the sunny backyard of the Park Slope apartment he shares with his wife and 2-year-old daughter, the amiable shaggy dog of a musician reflected upon Joe Russo's Almost Dead, the unexpectedly successful powerhouse of a Grateful Dead tribute band he leads.
But when Mr. Haacke showed up for an interview at his dealer's gallery in Manhattan, what was shocking was his quietude: In sensible sandals, roomy jeans and a staid plaid shirt, the 83-year-old New Yorker answered questions with an amiable, unflappable calm.
In "Abduction," when the European captive Pedrillo offers alcoholic temptation, and once the Quranic prohibition has been considered and discarded, Osmin, the angry overseer, becomes entirely amiable, joining Pedrillo in a tribute to Bacchus and a toast to all women, blondes and brunettes alike.
The author soon finds his footing (though he loses it again, as we shall see, when talking about cellphone etiquette), and "Table Manners" becomes an amiable and frequently witty guide to dining room etiquette as it stands in the waning days of the Obama era.
"Steve is a perfectly amiable guy, but he does not have the intellectual gravitas for this important job," Greg Mankiw, an economics professor at Harvard and chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush, said in a blog post.
The English-born actor was best known for his role as Wilbur Post, an amiable architect with a loquacious palomino living in his backyard barn, during six seasons on "Mister Ed," which still airs in reruns a half century after its original run on CBS ended.
Amiable as a dapper Golovkin appeared at a news conference on Thursday, describing his love for London and its people, he has proved a ruthless beast inside the ropes and is regarded as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, dominating the middleweight ranks.
The chief, who runs hearings with an amiable professionalism from the middle seat on the bench, may indeed find himself in the ideological centre of the court—perhaps with the left-leaning Stephen Breyer, who wrote the predatory-loans ruling—if Justice Kennedy hangs up his robe.
However, inspired by their mutual passion for collecting psychologically charged non-art objects, and by Felix Guattari's idea of a "collective assemblage of enunciation," this ensemble of exchanges traces something very specific: the lines of flight between malevolent wretchedness and amiable recovery that pass through physical transformations.
Jim Nabors, a comic actor who found fame in the role of the amiable bumpkin Gomer Pyle in two hit television shows of the 1960s while pursuing a second career as a popular singer with a booming baritone voice, died on Thursday at his home in Honolulu.
In a change of pace for the distinguished character actor Sam Rockwell, his new role in the action comedy "Blue Iguana," is Eddie, a muscled meathead whose brutish charm is only appreciable in contrast to the oafishness of Paul (an amiable Ben Schwartz), Eddie's partner in crime.
It's essentially forgotten now, but the standard enlightened view of Reagan in the Oval Office was as an "amiable dunce" (in Clark Clifford's memorable phrase) and frontman for a handful of sinister Los Angeles millionaires, whose presidential passion was provoking nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
His guitar playing was nearly as incendiary as the Purple One, too: When his backing band leavened their hypnotically funky desert blues with an amiable reggae beat, Bombino kicked up his knees in a high-stepping skank, his spindly fingers a dizzying blur on the strings.
"Amiable With Big Teeth" — with a subtitle equal to its wonderful title ("A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem") — is about a group of activists in that neighborhood who banded together to support Ethiopia against Mussolini's occupation.
As played by Ben Sinclair, who co-created the series with his creative partner and then-wife Katja Blichfeld, The Guy has largely been the platonic ideal of a weed dealer: amiable, consistent, and willing to listen to your problems without burdening you with any of his own.
The players were familiar types: an entitled, has-been title character (Will Arnett); his tightly wound agent and ex-lover, Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris), a cat; his shiftless houseguest, Todd (Aaron Paul), a 20-something human; his amiable frenemy, a Labrador retriever named Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tompkins).
Brown recently released an amiable but largely banal self-titled EP that features songs that feel ideologically half-cooked, stitching together genres but not hiding the seams (though it contains two songs — "Georgia Power" and "Tn Whiskey" — that more credibly fit in with contemporary country than "The Git Up").
Wordplay SUNDAY PUZZLE — Neville Fogarty makes his Sunday debut in the amiable companionship of Erik Agard, the reigning champion of all things cruciverbal, and they've made it their mission to aid and succor all the Luddite singletons grumbling, alone, over their Sunday puzzle on this beautiful spring weekend.
" Typical of complaints in this vein was a review by Herbert Leibowitz of Mr. Wilbur's collection "The Mind-Reader" in The New York Times of June 290, 22011: "While we acknowledge his erudition and urbanity, we regretfully liken his mildness to the amiable normality of the bourgeois citizen.
Unpublished during McKay's lifetime, "Romance in Marseille" is the second novel by the author to appear recently, following the 2017 publication of "Amiable With Big Teeth," a book written in 1941 that remained completely unknown until the scholar Jean-Christophe Cloutier stumbled upon the typescript in an archive a decade ago.
Although "Cure" seems quite distinct from the more amiable and upbeat folk tunes in his album, "Songs from the Lion," its hermetic room with its isolated inmate raises issues that Mr. Scheuer addressed with the photographer Riya Lerner in their book, "Between Two Spaces," namely the alienating landscapes of treatment.
A big Mercedes waits downstairs to spirit Gunther out of Berlin to Bavaria, where, just hours earlier, a man had been murdered on the Berghof terrace after a reportedly amiable breakfast meeting of the engineers, architects, and civil servants involved in planning the latest costly improvements to the Führer's house.
Since ending his turn as an amiable wizard in a certain long-running film franchise, Daniel Radcliffe has played an accused rapist with horns growing out of his forehead ("Horns"), a morphine-addicted physician during the Russian Revolution ("A Young Doctor's Notebook") and the beat poet Allen Ginsberg ("Kill Your Darlings").
Featuring a fantastic lineup of comedians like Phoebe Robinson, Todd Barry, Chris Gethard, Aparna Nancherla and Michelle Buteau, and hosted by the easygoing and amiable Maeve Higgins, this event will raise money for the nonprofit Inara, which provides medical care to children who are unable to access it because of war.
Even when the jokes are as blunt as the bowling ball that Ricky delivers to another wrestler's groin — they're testing out a dubious routine — they just slide into the story, becoming part of its textured realism Like its amiable, irresistible ménage, "Fighting With My Family" softens its rougher edges with humor.
Before they came to a less than amiable parting over the third-term issue, Farley was chiefly responsible for having cobbled together the New Deal coalition of urban Catholics, labor unions, African-Americans and farmers which, when added to the "Solid South," first propelled FDR to the presidency in 1932.
Rather, it is a pretense to force this amiable couple into many hours of painting this awkward pattern on the walls and the ceiling, a task they greet as enthusiastically as you might a mandatory Saturday night at the office, followed by being forced to clean up after a neighbor's gastrointestinally challenged cat.
Less than a year ago, all the talk in this part of the world was of Italy being on a crash course to follow the UK out of the EU. Its young, amiable Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had bet his political career against the need of the nation to reform its economy.
" He believes in no God, describing himself, with acuity, as "an amiable, low-voltage atheist" and, in an absorbing chapter on religion, makes the case that "not only can conservatives be thoroughly secular, but that a secular understanding of cosmology and of humanity's place in the cosmos accords with a distinctively conservative sensibility.
It's an access point to an amiable throwback of an album that cherishes analog-style 1990s hip-hop, with a jazzy studio band and guests including Bilal, Raphael Saadiq, Ladybug Mecca (of Digable Planets), Laeticia Sadier (of Stereolab) and Luther Vandross's vocals from "So Amazing," reimagined with a more organic backup track.
J.P. Major Lazer and collaborators from South Africa (DJ Maphorisa, Nasty), Nigeria (Ice Prince, Patoranking) and Wisconsin (Jidenna) have concocted a sleek, amiable global come-on with a one-sentiment-fits-all hook — "I like you girl in particula" — delivered by Ice Prince in the Nigerian version of a Jamaican dancehall growl.
Season 2 focuses on moral conundrums that seem rich and complicated for a children's show, as the princes' childhood friends Claudia (a dark magician, and also a cheerful, friendly girl who clearly cares for Callum) and Soren (an amiable soldier) pursue Callum and Ezran, each with a secret agenda from their frightening father Viren.
Even though the two were nothing but amiable, full of laughter, and open about their love for all things bubblegum pop, it was still hard not to shake my head in disbelief when imagining the two of them singing along to "Call Me Maybe" alongside seas of teen girls at a Carly Rae Jepsen show.
"Amiable With Big Teeth," which is set in 303-36 amid efforts by the Harlem intelligentsia to raise money in support of Ethiopia after it had been invaded by Mussolini's Italy, is an unsparing satire of the shenanigans of self-appointed backdoor diplomats and manipulators of public opinion — a historical novel with newfound contemporary resonance.
All the while, the ever-amiable Psutka is acting as tour guide, offering up little tidbits of knowledge as we approach parts of the park like Grenadier Pond — which is "so named because some Grenadiers fell through the ice and drowned during an American attack on Toronto" — or the zoo—which is "pretty shit".
"It's an amiable little film, a kind of cross between a Temple and a Durbin; Miss Jean can be described that way, too, although the comparison might be opposed on the ground that it does an injustice to all three," the film critic and screenwriter Frank S. Nugent wrote in The Times in 1939.
Critic's Notebook The Colombian songwriter Juanes, a superstar across Latin America, could easily have released his new album, "Mis Planes Son Amarte" ("My Plans Are to Love You"), on its own terms: as a set of a dozen gleaming, tuneful, good-natured songs about love, featuring his amiable voice and his strategically syncopated guitars.
She told reporters that she was not surprised that few members of the public had turned out to support Mr. Cosby, noting that many people remembered him not only as an amiable, even reassuring comedian and television star, but also as a scold who told black Americans to take more responsibility for their lives.
That's why John F. Kennedy beat Richard Nixon, a genial Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter (who came across as tight and testy), the relaxed and amiable Bill Clinton beat George H. W. Bush, his son George W. Bush beat the policy-wonk-sounding Al Gore, and why in this year's first presidential debate Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump.
But I'd have gladly sat through more of the quietly breathtaking "Angry Alan" (at the Underbelly Cowgate), the English writer-director Penelope Skinner's searing depiction of the slide into psychosis of an amiable-seeming American father (played by the excellent Donald Sage Mackay) who rails against a "gynocentric society" that is sidelining men at every turn.
Then, they might find an article in a local newspaper or school paper's archive — as The Times did in the comics "An Amiable Child" based on a 2008 article, and "Terrorists Among Us (1942); Detecting the Enemy Wasn't Easy Then, Either," based on a 2002 piece — that they think would make an especially compelling graphic story, and illustrate it.
Mr Weyl's healthy federation of platforms, like the mostly amiable and high minded United Federation of Planets which is responsible for the USS Enterprise, is a hope, not a certainty—one that needs an engaged political process to bring it into being if it is to set off in search of new life, and new civilisation. ■
The amiable and hirsute owner, Joy Napolitano, holds twice-monthly events there to trim beards and hair, but the nightly action is downstairs in the intimately appointed brick cellar of the (clippers-free) Barber Shop (Via Iside 2/4/6; 39-389-508-6037), a vaulted cavern with deep blue walls, wood paneling, cozy piles of Persian carpets and late night hours.
These new cafes, all of which owe a debt to New York's abstemious Dimes, which opened in Chinatown in 2013, present amiable aesthetic experiences that feel ready-made for Instagram: Many of these rooms share the same natural light, blond wood chairs and copper details that have come to evoke a kind of Scandinavian-inflected, aspirational millennial apartment, which the cafes themselves tend to resemble.
And there's certainly room for this kind of artisanal woolly sweater on the TV scene: The real world and the headlines it generates are not much fun these days, and when the actors in the best-written "Modern Love" installments are on their A-games, it's hard to resist the appeal of these amiable, slightly world-weary stories of connection in the big city.
One by one, family members make themselves indispensable to the Parks' daily lives: Ki-woo, who adopts the English name Kevin, introduces Ke-jeon as a friend and potential art therapist named Jessica; Ki-taek replaces the Park's personal driver after a not-so-accidental firing; and following a scarring incident involving peaches, Choon-sook takes over for the amiable housekeeper, Moon-gwang (Lee Jeong-eun).
"While exchanges between legislators and tech executives were more amiable than what we heard previously, it was impossible not to come away with greater conviction that social media's opex/capex investments in tools to address bad actors on their platforms are likely to maintain an aggressive trajectory, as FB and TWTR strive to show they are trying their best to remedy these issues," wrote Evercore analysts.
Berger's clips may not have the sheen or talk-show-host star-power of other electoral-minded clips, but they've drawn millions of views, earned online praise from the likes of Bob Odenkirk and Julie Klausner, and turned the amiable father of two into one of the most essential, incendiary political comedians of the weirdo-video age, where the preferred mode of humor is often more Mulholland Drive than Mark Russell.
That is partly Shaw's doing: In establishing the "pretty and amiable voluptuaries" assembled in the peculiar, ship-shaped house in the Sussex countryside where the play takes place, he is simulating the moral vacuum that allowed bosses like Mangan to thrive, and that helped create the conditions for World War I. That vacuum is represented theatrically by the drawing-room-comedy conventions that set the plot in motion.
At the ice machine; in the kitchen where they took down abandoned plates and bowls from the shelves to eat their sad, brief lunches; in the cold room where the sensitive reagents were kept; in the hideous purple bathrooms—they were thrown together like surly, unhappy cousins, and they needled each other in the amiable manner of enemies too lazy to make a true go at violence and harm.

No results under this filter, show 525 sentences.

Copyright © 2024 RandomSentenceGen.com All rights reserved.