*On-their-toes staff members who takes their lead from the amiable host.
In the house of my amiable host family, I saw a painting inspired by the work of a Shanghai-based novelist that my mother personally knows.
She, a native of Bangkok, runs the kitchen; he, a longtime resident of the area and a volunteer firefighter, is the amiable host in the dining room.
Mike Rowe, the amiable host of "Dirty Jobs," finds cheerful workers wherever he goes, and he goes to places like ostrich farms to talk to the people who handle excrement.
But on Friday Mr. Ghimere himself seemed less like a journalist readying himself for years in prison than the rumpled, amiable host of a festive wake.
Let's suppose, shall we, that the amiable hosts – David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and the Queen of the Netherlands – have the interests of the general public written in big red letters at the top of their conference agenda.
The cuddly doyen of TV-am, laidback presenter of Through the Keyhole and amiable host of Breakfast With Frost is surely the last person anyone would imagine capable of skewering a widely vilified former president.
But as they neck shots, flick plectrums into the crowd and yell "thank you so much" after pretty much every song, Nickelback are amiable hosts, and there's a commendable leanness, pace and power to this performance.
Last week, Mr. Wells was an amiable host, chain-smoking through a tour of the raw, rocky land on his still-growing compound, pointing out the ravaged beauty of a gully and the bulldozed bit he is hoping will turn into a temporary lake, come the April rains.
Craggs is an amiable host, the setting is breathtakingly beautiful, and when Briggs and his bandmates give an unplugged performance of Bonxie's first single "Get Low" in front of an upturned boat that has been transformed into a beach hut, the small, appreciative audience includes some curious Japanese tourists and a curlew.
As Alan Alda, the series's amiable host, discovers in conversations with scientists, who perforce are carrying out most of their experiments on rats, mice and worms, the means may be near at hand to add decades to the Bible's authorized life span.
