Sentence examples for agreeable by from inspiring English sources

That patients who are agreeable by nature may not admit that they are in pain.

She likes being alone: "I can work in the evenings instead of having to be agreeable by the fire".

While researching images for this week's fiction story, "Agreeable," by Jonathan Franzen, I considered images from Raimond Wouda's body of work "School".

Kahn's house, as well as those of the Burden, Hammond and Trevor families, created a magnificent sweep, New York's best mansion block, kept agreeable by the relative lack of traffic.

She and Burri were often contentious by day (they each had their own studios in a Ray Kappe-esque house they lived in on the top of Mulholland Drive with views to the Valley) but more agreeable by night.

If everyone involved becomes unnaturally agreeable by then, Iran and the P5+1 (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China plus Germany) will sign on to a political framework outlining the major elements of a deal.

In fantasy, the farcical note was struck with agreeable preposterousness by Oliver Butterworth in The Enormous Egg (1956) and The Trouble with Jenny's Ear (1960).

But we found a very agreeable compromise by making St. John's our base for most of our time in Newfoundland.

After acting in the provinces, primarily at York, he first appeared on the stage in Dublin in 1794 and made his London debut in 1803 in the role of Lingo in The Agreeable Surprize, by the English dramatist Samuel Foote.

Robert Louis Stevenson, whose essay on Pepys still serves as the introduction to the Modern Library's edition, understood not only the diarist's "liberal genius" and casual artistry but his essential childishness as well: "He must always be doing something agreeable, and, by preference, two agreeable things at once".

The Theatres review was typical of the critics' unanimous praise: "The Pooh-Bah of Mr. Barrington is a masterpiece of pompous stolidity – nothing could possibly be better of its kind – and this popular comedian provided his many admirers with an agreeable surprise by singing every note of the music allotted to him in perfect tune".