How else to explain the casting of a boy-band type – a B-list Zac Efron – in the role of the aspiring rocker, played with such amiable, grungy appeal by Constantine Maroulis onstage?
Gorsuch, a cool-headed and amiable conservative federal appeals court judge from Colorado, likely will try to engage members of the Judiciary Committee without being pinned down on specifics that could trip up his nomination to the lifetime post.
In the Sacramento area, according to Mr. Coupal, the taxpayer advocate, reduction appeals were handled at amiable weekend workshops for property owners.
You may hear some noise from the street below, but Ghent's amiable bustle is a big part of its appeal, and this stylish guesthouse is in the heart of town, a short walk from the cathedral and the castle.
Faced with an extremely friendly face – Ben is an admitted Labour voter, and had burbled in most amiable terms about Corbyn's "unpolished… approachable" appeal to younger Labourites, Jeremy still chose the path of most resistance.
Melanie Rehak's amiable and thorough new book begins and ends with appeals to the reader.
This was part of his appeal — "There is something singularly and refreshingly free, spacious, amiable, hearty and decent about him," H. L. Mencken once wrote — and also part of his undoing.
The production, directed by John Rando, has plenty of whimsical appeal, even if it ultimately does not reveal the play to be much more than an amiable comic chestnut.
The appeal of Two Door Cinema Club is a little harder to locate – there's a weird disconnect between their amiable but defiantly ordinary alt-rock and the vociferous reaction it gets.
He has set two films (one recent, one to come) in the 18th century, and that age of enlightened libertinage probably appeals to him, for despite his crow's-feet, he reminds an interviewer of an oddly amiable Marquis de Sade -- fundamentally chilly but as mirthful as a schoolboy.
