For years, British soldiers, affable boys, had been camped in Brooklyn; they vanished daily.
He was an affable, sociable boy whose directness was of the easy and not the exacting kind.
Vin Diesel is the elder statesman of the breed, but coming up fast behind him are Taylor Lautner, of the "Twilight" saga, and Tatum, an affable Southern boy who went into acting from modelling, scored a hit with "Step Up," and now bears the deeply puzzled expression of someone who never expected to be standing in the rain wearing a leather skirt.
Among those companions was Tom Blankenship, an affable but impoverished boy whom Twain later identified as the model for the character Huckleberry Finn.
The news was devastating for friends and neighbors who had watched the brothers grow from affable and popular boys into promising young adults.
The typical corps enrollee was 18; thus, the affable and ubiquitous nickname "boy".
Quickly, however, the affable Huey and his boys came to define regular-guy rock.
Of his father's personality, we're given hints -- a snapshot of a single father embracing his three boys; an affable old man studying Talmud with his cronies -- but his absence is more insistent than his presence.
You felt it as a depth of ease around certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world.
But there's no hiding the "depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world, that it had already been reserved for them".
