"Now tempests be kind," implores Krupa Pattani's Viola, to ironic laughter from the audience; while Scott Arthur's amiable Sir Andrew Aguecheek takes practical action by sheltering under someone's golfing umbrella.
A beautiful object or action strikes us as amiable, agreeable, and desirable.
"The goal is to win the Tour," says the amiable Londoner, bluntly, as the Sky jamboree gets action under way in Oman for the cycling calendar's next early-season event.
In person, Huckabee comes off as an amiable preacher man, trekking about the state accompanied by action star Chuck Norris, who also made a TV ad for the candidate.
Action and adventure with a steady flow of amiable loopiness.
Some of Mr. Lieberman's staff members seem more worried about damage to the senator's reputation than he is, recognizing in his recent actions a characteristic stubbornness that is often masked by his amiable, low-key manner.
Ettinger can only miss the action now that she is too infirm to make her rounds of amiable, outlawed haunts and buck the odds with buddies.
This kind of narrative balladry has taken on an American style of its own: a lyrical storytelling in which music is an amiable, often meek appendage, happy to echo pastoral themes and bend to the dynamism of words and action.
Like all sensible boys his age, the bespectacled Everykid Ralphie, played with amiable spunk by Johnny Rabe, lives in fear of sensible gifts like sweaters, and has fixated on the Red Ryder carbine action BB gun as the only acquisition that will make his 9-year-old life worth living.
Pragmatic and amiable, perhaps.
