This astute and amiable double act always looked a bit awkward as young comics, especially in the early 90s, when (for about a fortnight) comedy was supposed to be the new rock'n'roll.
He answered the telephone, seemed willing to recollect who I was, and acted amiable enough that I suggested we have lunch together the next day.
Mr. Thain, a dead ringer for Clark Kent, is cautiously amiable and seemed to act out, rather than inhabit, the role of C.E.O.
Murphy's deputy was Flying Officer (later Sir) Henry Winneke, who found his boss's companionship "exhilarating"—Murphy was "a product of the old school of airmen who could not only fly a plane but also pull it apart and put it together again", generally "amiable" but who "could act gruffly when the occasion demanded".
James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are first-class acts as, respectively, the amiable, pre-wheelchair Professor Xavier and the embittered Magneto, who team up to confront Kevin Bacon's evil geneticist before following different paths.
Even Michael Palin got in on the act with a brief turn as an amiable colonel and supporter of the paper, gently telling a disgruntled subordinate: "I rather think the authors are aware [that war isn't funny] – I think that may be the point".
Mr. Bush acted totally out of character: witty, engaged, amiable, bipartisan and magnanimous.
Through a Sindebele interpreter, Rudd introduced himself and the others, explained on whose behalf they acted, said they had come for an amiable sojourn, and presented the king with a gift of £100.
Even when it made its debut, this amiable musical, which considers the Manhattan dating scene during the first act and suburban married life in the second, scarcely offered cutting-edge wit in the script and lyrics written by Joe DiPietro and the upbeat tunes composed by Jimmy Roberts.
