Mr. Williams, in recovery from alcoholism, is an affable, self-deprecating wit whose confessional anecdotes revealingly flesh out his lyrics.
With affable manner and wisecracking wit in English and Italian, he castigates the lost years under communism and soothes western leaders by praising constitutional checks and balances and a free judiciary.
The former leader of the Liberal Democrats (who at 23 was the youngest MP in the House of Commons when first elected in 1983) was known for his quick wit and affable demeanour.
Mr. Laue is an intriguing subject, smart, affable and with a dry wit.
Despite the pace of his life teaching, travel, administration, scientific study, and honours Romer remained a relaxed, affable man, with a quiet wit and charm, always in demand as a lecturer.
But Nims, an affable man with a quick wit and an eye for a daring entrepreneurial opportunity, is very much in charge.
He is unexpressive in public, but is said to be affable and accessible, with a quick wit and sharp mind.
Friends describe him as an affable, gracious man with a tart wit who has always exhibited the qualities needed for assuming power.
With a glossy grin, a dry wit and bags of affable Irish-American charm, Barclays' chief executive, Bob Diamond, is a difficult man to discombobulate.
Zarif is an affable man, with a disarmingly unrevolutionary grin, a quick wit, and the steely tenacity of a debater.
