The phrase "amiable for" is not a correct or usable phrase in the English language.
You could use the word "amiable," which is an adjective meaning "friendly," but "amiable for" does not have a meaning. For example, you could say, "The professor was amiable and approachable."
He may be too amiable for that.
In this view, which he lays out in his new book, "The Mating Mind" (Doubleday), humans are imaginative, artistic, humorous and relatively amiable for the same reason that peacocks fan their fancy tails and cicadas thrum through the summer: to attract mates and increase their so-called reproductive success.
Mr. Biggs, who is perhaps a little too amiable for the job, plays the Woody Allen surrogate, a comedy writer named Jerry Falk who is saddled with a difficult manager (Danny DeVito) and an impossible girlfriend, a would-be actress named Amanda (Ms. Ricci).
Mâche, he believes, is the perfect salad green: sophisticated enough for gourmets yet amiable enough for a truck-stop diner.
Keith Jarrett has waited until his senior years to start swearing at the bearers of his hated cameraphones, but though he did that before the encores began on his first-ever concert for the London jazz festival, he followed the outburst with an amiable welcome for the crowd's requests, and almost gave the impression of enjoying his own stereotype as a short-fuse genius.
(Jon Caramanica called the album "shockingly amiable". For anybody who knows Jay-Z's historical tendency toward richly satisfying moments of one-upmanship, that amiability feels like a terminal diagnosis).
Too amiable, perhaps, for "Split Personality" eventually grew lulling.
For all his talk of freedom, he provided his young Émile with an amiable tyrant for a teacher, severely restricting his reading to one book Robinson Crusoe.
I want her to be likable, so I'll make her kindhearted and easygoing, with not-too-neat hair and an amiable disregard for weight issues.
That was clear during the show, which was less a formal concert than an amiable performance for select family members, many of whom the group appeared to know personally.
In truth, he was a rather raggedy, slightly flea-bitten thing (the four-legged fellow, I mean) but he was amiable, eager for attention and, to a 14-month-old, he was a purebred white Arabian stallion.
