Sentence examples for amiable effect from inspiring English sources

Brie's air of smart, startled prissiness nicely offsets the grit, while Sudeikis works those labrador jowls to amiable effect.

(Devin E. Haqq's brutishly amiable Catesby is particularly effective).

But much of the rest of this amiable album has evident scars left by studio effects.

Mr. Godard, then just three weeks shy of his 80th birthday, kept his customary distance from his American admirers, several of whom stepped up to the microphone that night to toast him in terms that, in their amiable vagueness, betrayed the general bafflement that was, and is, the most characteristic effect of his stubborn art.

The monochrome effect, set off by Lowery's large, shaved head, made him seem like an amiable Bond villain.

Michael Davis, the amiable manager of the cement additive plant, said that he appreciated residents' concerns about the health effects of breathing the dust.

How amiable.

Pragmatic and amiable, perhaps.

The staff is amiable.

The split was amiable.

An amiable young policewoman appeared.