The tall young man in the back row, on the right, a serious but amiable expression on his face, is the teenage Nelson Mandela.
Mr. Rajaratnam, a Sri Lankan native, intently watches the proceedings with an amiable expression on his face, occasionally jotting a note on a legal pad or whispering to one of his lawyers.
And even in photographs that were frankly erotic, the body might be telling one story and the face another: a naked woman lying in a strenuously indecent position, spread-eagled or presenting her rump, with the face turned toward the viewer wearing the vapidly amiable expression of respectable photographic portraiture.
But, anyway, what can you do?" This amiable expression of indifference is common here, particularly in the vast "Nobody cares" camp.
He really does exude a palpable stillness, responding to questions with several seconds' thought before speaking; his standard expression is an amiable smile.
Mauritius' effortless and amiable fusion of cultures finds daily expression in the countless vignettes and tableaux that unfold around you as you explore the island.
As a result, Beatty is much less inhibited in depicting his younger characters than in portraying the potentate; with an amiable indifference, he endows them with traits and expressions that he denies, with a taut directorial inhibition, to the character that he plays, and with whom he identifies himself.
Slightly tipsy, Jeanne nevertheless unleashes her contempt in a stream of testy, flirtatious chatter that the major greets with amiable grunts, a few German words and an expression of hungry relish.
Table 1 Description of expression marks Name Definition agitato Agitated amabile Amiable, pleasant appassionato Passionately capriccioso Unpredictable, volatile grazioso Gracefully lamentoso Lamenting, mournfully leggiero Lightly, delicately maestoso Majestically pesante Heavy, ponderous soave Softly spiritoso Spiritedly tranquillo Calmly, peacefully.
The glitzy Olympians-turned-commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir, who a few nights ago both used the expression "all the feels" after a performance, were accompanied by the amiable golf-and-figure-skating commentator Terry Gannon, beamed in from another genre.
