Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
In more temperate letters, where he acknowledged her "amiable and complying" qualities, he simply and more acceptably asserted that their temperaments were utterly incompatible.
I have always struggled to get engrossed in Lock's amiable dad-like qualities and unreconstructed approach to life, where men skive, play air guitar and indulge in pub banter rather than Tweet, even if he is entirely correct to identify Twitter as being for people "who can't be quiet even when they are on their own".
The performances, under Martin Horsey's direction, are amiable enough and of consistent quality--a consistency that, unfortunately if not fatally, results in a game of "What's That Accent?" when listening to just about anybody who's supposed to have one.
It helped that he was so amiable and so lacking in conceit not universal qualities among journalists.
Usually amiable in person, he always tried to make quality time for his boys Uday and Qusay -- taking them to a concert, or else toughening them up by taking them to prison to watch people being tortured.
My concept of ancestral sexuality - amoral yet amiable - owes a lot to the droll qualities of calypso.
His charming and humorous prose style, his amiable personality on the page, his incontestable bravery, the quality in him that, in spite of everything, was never petty or contemptible — all this is hugely attractive, or would be, if only you could separate out the other aspects.
The interior was designed by the architectural firm Gensler, and it fails to emulate either the unusual quality of the building's exterior or the amiable rambunctiousness of an old-style newsroom.
In American Negro Slavery (1918), Phillips refers to slaves as "negroes, who for the most part were by racial quality submissive rather than defiant, light-hearted instead of gloomy, amiable and ingratiating instead of sullen, and whose very defects invited paternalism rather than repression".
