The phrase 'agreeable story' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is pleasant and enjoyable, or to refer to a story that is easy to accept or agree with. For example: "The young boy told a funny and agreeable story that had everyone in the room laughing."
And adapting to a new culture is, to a degree, what this lighthearted and agreeable story is all about.
Call it "Eat, Drink, Nap". Readers who want sparkling details about great meals in a beautiful setting might consider this agreeable story for a long plane ride.
But, as Mr. Vesce, 64, stood alone in the Paramount's cavernous auditorium on a rainy weekday this month, he had a more immediate and less agreeable story to tell: As the board president of the nonprofit Paramount Center for the Arts, he was there to shut down the theater — at least until the city could find a new operator for it.
While researching images for this week's fiction story, "Agreeable," by Jonathan Franzen, I considered images from Raimond Wouda's body of work "School".
"Fox News is open and agreeable to consider story pitches and guests that accurately reflect and impact the Asian-American community," reads the statement on the AAJA website.
Surely there must have been a book more important than this agreeable but slight story".
Not a lot happens, but an agreeable cove tells you stories about manly adventures in Siberia and Iceland while you cast your fly under the final approach of the Heathrow flight path.
(Reviewing it here, Stephen Dobyns compared the story to "an agreeable train ride: a pleasant destination and gratifying scenes to look at through the windows").
True, these tropes feel as familiar as your favorite Hank Williams tune, but Roberts, director Mark L. Taylorand an agreeable cast make a predictable story worth the trouble.
It was the mayor who commanded the conversation, expanding on topics that were agreeable to him, like the stories his mother told him about patriotism during World War I and his several visits to Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan, where, he said, there was a fortress with "cannons".
Even by 1959 standards, the libretto by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse was conventional and a bit sticky in its sentiments, but it still functions today both as a warmhearted story and as an agreeable platform for the score.
