Sentence examples for affable figure from inspiring English sources
His nephew cuts a more easy-going, affable figure, with a love of football and a taste for worry-beads that will put ordinary voters at their ease.
That's the question implicitly asked in the play's first half, and it is the more challenging for Mr. Jennings's quiet intensity and the excellent acting of Roger Allam as Hitler, a beguilingly affable figure who gives his true nature away only when paranoia surfaces or when setbacks in the war turn him into a babbling, broken savage, demanding the demolition of Germany itself.
But this year organiser Denis Dopovoly, an affable figure who I would regularly bump into at TechCrunch US events, pulled out the stops with 700 attendees and numerous startups pitching.
Although he has overseen the Commission and the EU at its most ruthless – like the dispossession of Greece during the Eurozone crisis – he is considered in diplomatic and political circles to be a collegial, affable figure.
The mogul himself turns out to be a down-to-earth, affable, wiry figure in jeans, boots and checked shirt.
They knew they were electing an atypical, outsiderish leader, not an affable father figure: they had had enough of that under the torpid Mr Chirac.
A round-faced, bespectacled man, the sturdily built Mr. Davy cuts an affable, relaxed figure that changes into earnestness when discussing his work.
Manchin, who stands six feet three inches and went to West Virginia University on a football scholarship, is an affable, drawling figure in his sixties with a thick brush of gray hair.
Salahi cuts an affable, avuncular figure, quiet but articulate; the fact that it is him who has been accorded the Tate honour rather than a younger, hipper figure suggests the museum wants to fill in the missing pieces of the story of global modernism.
Through it all he's remained an affable and lovable figure.
Currently celebrating two decades of his radio show on Kiss FM UK, we went to Shoreditch to meet up with the ever affable, sprawlingly conversational figure to find out what it's like to survive over twenty years of rave, picked his brains on the current EDM scene, jungle's reascension to trend-setting status, and plenty more. .
