Sentence examples for amenable personality from inspiring English sources

Benson agreed, stating that Moore was, "too nice and well-mannered to be a James Bond of any real substance", while Doug Pratt said that "the writers worked out an amenable personality for Roger Moore and found a breezy balance between comedy and action".

MSN Music's Robert Christgau wrote that Saadiq sings with Smokey Robinson's detailed sentimentality and Dennis Edwards' amenable personality as "he goes Motown with so much joy in one-man-band craft he'll not only convince the girl he's sweet-talking that this is forever, he'll convince you".

Kids are more empathetic in their responses to conflict, such as exclusionary or aggressive actions from peers, if they've been taught to view personality traits as amenable to growth rather than being fixed traits, she said.

Organisational factors are more amenable to change than individual personality tendencies, or societal and cultural values.

"Will do" motivation is influenced by (a) distal determinants such as societal and cultural values, personal values, and personality tendencies and (b) proximal determinants that are more amenable to policy change, such as organizational structure and culture, management practices, financial rewards, and non-financial recognition.

Personality traits are, by definition, virtually permanent, and so personality disorders are only partially amenable to treatment, if at all.

Another forensic psychiatrist who has interviewed Brady on 10 occasions between 2003 and 2013 said he did not believe Brady was sufficiently mentally ill to be detained in hospital but instead suffered a "severe personality disorder" which was not "amenable" to treatment.

Some view dysfunctional perfectionism as a stable personality characteristic that is not readily amenable to change (Blatt et al., 1995).

Naturally extreme emotions would be moderated and become amenable to the control of the child's developing personality.

This might reflect the fact that those caregivers having the openness personality trait tend to ask more questions and are amenable to new experiences, adapting to potential stressors.

Thus, while personality traits are often viewed as too broad to be useful and not amenable to interventions, I hope that the above shows that when the mechanisms that link traits to illness are identified as well as using empirically robust cut-offs, personality traits can be used to develop individual interventions that should be beneficial to the patient.