Sentence examples for amiable dinner from inspiring English sources
It should be called the Barnes Broadcasting Corporation to reflect the amiable dinner party chatter of its apparatchiks who inhabit chic west London suburbs.
But Foe's prices are well in line with other shoreline restaurants, and it fills an important niche for those looking for an amiable dinner spot without pretension.
"I had a very amiable dinner with Sir Eric Anderson, who incidentally was at Lincoln College [Oxford] when I was a student there and is now chairman of the school's governing body, and I talked to Tony Little [Eton's head master].
Everyone who is anyone has been nudged by the amiable prof (I bought him dinner).
On Tuesday, the Archdiocese of New York announced that both Presidential candidates had accepted invitations to attend the annual Alfred E. Smith charity dinner, in October — an amiable white-tie roast that always draws men and women of great power and prestige.
His most celebrated film performance was as Freddy Malins, the amiable and sentimental sot who attends the dinner party in John Huston's widely praised adaptation of Joyce's "The Dead".
The Standing Pool by Adam Thorpe Jonathan Cape £16.99, pp424 Adam Thorpe's last novel, Between Each Breath, was a satire on the Hampstead dinner-party scene, starring an amiable composer mired in bourgeois self-satisfaction, unwilling to take responsibility for his often shoddy actions.
During their after-dinner panel, the tone remained amiable, but Thiel, in particular, managed to get some memorable jabs in.
So, the Queen entertained for dinner at Windsor not only the amiable president of the Republic of Ireland, Michael Higgins (who had earlier addressed both houses of parliament), but also the former IRA commander Martin McGuinness.
As finely attuned to one another's living spaces as they are to their Game Boys, Treos, iPods and most recent vacation destinations, children have been known to say things like "You live in this place?" in tones as eerily amiable as a Stepford wife agreeing to conjure up dinner for a dozen in an hour.
This can be annoying, a little like going to a dinner party where all the guests seem bright and amiable but insist on speaking another language.
