After months of partisan bickering, Mr. Clinton and Speaker J. Dennis Hastert exchanged amiable letters today, promising cooperation in hammering out a year-end tax relief package.
Martial arts fans, and particularly Mixed martial arts followers, are the target audience of this amiable fan-letter tribute to Bruce Lee.
In stories published in The New Yorker between 1938 and 1940, John O'Hara introduced the world to the voice of the braggadocio Joey Evans, a second-rate night-club singer and first-rate cad, who, in a series of twelve apparently amiable, misspelled letters written from Chicago to his show-biz pal Ted, shows himself to be a demotic dunce with the hide of an ox and the sensitivity of an embalmer.
In more temperate letters, where he acknowledged her "amiable and complying" qualities, he simply and more acceptably asserted that their temperaments were utterly incompatible.
More than a few grown men cried at the execution, including Lafayette, who called Hamilton's widely published letter "a masterpiece of literary talents and amiable sensibility".
The omission of any form of passport or sea letter from the treaty had consequences which were elaborately discussed in The Amiable Isabella, 6 Wheaton, 1-101.
In the letter, and the faintly embarrassing security pass photographs that accompany them, Smith comes across as an amiable egghead.
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.
Pragmatic and amiable, perhaps.
