Yet Cheret, with his amiable good humor and remarkable sense of movement, rapidly succeeded in popularizing the type of plump rosy young women in blooming health who are dubbed the "Oherettes" and were soon to be seen on all the walls of Paris in frothy frou‐frous, swept along by the frenzied pace of the dance.
Their subjects range from "The Rape of the Sabines, No. 2," in which the given scene is rendered with an almost startling ferocity, to the amiable good humor of the "Bacchanal Before a Herm" and the grieving simplicity of the "Death of Eudamidas," in which a humble citizen on Corinth dictates his will to a notary.
Mike and Dave follow the tradition of such amiable cinematic wedding humor as " The Wedding Crashers", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Runaway Bride", "American Wedding" and "While You Were Sleeping".
The two of them began exchanging the latest jokes featuring Boudreaux and Thibodeaux, two amiable but dim-witted Cajuns — a vein of humor they have been mining for decades.
Daunno's Curly, however, is amiable but diffuse, his affections and his sense of humor unclear.
The amiable soul had sustained his exaggerated belief in my humor ever since that night, some five years ago, when we had found ourselves in a dimly lit wine cellar in Budapest, drinking Tokay, and I had discovered, with the inevitability of discoveries made late at night, that I could project the shadow puppet of an angry man on the wall behind us.
Self-satirizing humor is the whole point of "Piranhaconda," an amiable, unapologetically crude gigglefest directed by the Corman veteran Jim Wynorski, whose long résumé includes "Big Bad Mama II" and (under the name Salvadore Ross) "The Hills Have Thighs".
He has a dry, gallows sense of humor, and seems to enjoy the role of amiable curmudgeon.
Although this author of "The Norman Conquests" and dozens of other comedies of middle-class British life draws his amiable characters with the usual appealing blend of insight, compassion and humor, the paces through which he puts them here come to seem a little strained.
