By then a standard lexicon had evolved: use of the third person ("Sir John Dineley of Windsor Castle recommends himself…") and key phrases such as "agreeable manners", "domesticated", "letters post paid", and above all, "discretion assured".
"I once did advisory work for a midsized company whose CEO cheerfully told me, 'In twenty-five years, we've never failed to reach agreement with a customer or a vendor'," Wheeler wrote in his post Are You Being Too Agreeable?
The weighted Likert score was higher, shifted to an improved, more agreeable attitude, in all cases for the posttest evaluation when compared to the lower scores in the pretest evaluation.
Mr. DeSare is a polished, agreeable performer who belongs to the Harry Connick Jr. school of post-Sinatra pop singing.
Overall, items related to benefits and post-procedure's issues were ranked better (more agreeable) than items related to risks and available alternatives.
"We're actively working with the San Francisco MTA towards a mutually agreeable policy on shuttles in the city," Google said in a statement to The Huffington Post.
The post office, No. 127, is one of those tepid brick things of the 1930s, perfectly agreeable but hardly the equal of the 1880s firehouse across the street, a particularly handsome work by Napoleon LeBrun.
The upshot of this agreeable collaboration agreeable to everybody except the company's anguished competitors was that ninety-five per cent of the soft drinks dispensed through overseas post exchanges during the war were drinks of Coca-Cola.
Professional, agreeable waiters.
