I think the reason for my success, apart from the food, is that I'm amiable, I like to think.
He is a big, amiable, Santa-like man, with an affecting high-pitched giggle.
By his own admission, Garrett is known to many parents as "the annoying British man in the corner" because of their children's insatiable appetite for his chirpily narrated videos featuring an amiable cat-like creature in Minecraft, a video game sometimes described as virtual Lego.
I have always struggled to get engrossed in Lock's amiable dad-like qualities and unreconstructed approach to life, where men skive, play air guitar and indulge in pub banter rather than Tweet, even if he is entirely correct to identify Twitter as being for people "who can't be quiet even when they are on their own".
Britain doesn't like amiable losers from now on.
He became so immersed in the claustrophobic culture of New York that when he attempted an amiable confection like "Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993), he was like a pitching ace who had lost his rhythm.
He can be amiable enough, like Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, or lethal, like Angelo in Measure for Measure, or fatally without self-knowledge (until it is too late) like Lear, whose sexual disgust and self-regard are shone back at him through the pornographic projectors of Goneril and Regan and Edmund.
You want the conversation to be amiable, lulling, like a Turkish bath, until there's only the sound of the scissors.
Bone-skinny, striking and each an individual, Ms. Bourgeois's 19 bronze "Personages" are enigmatic, people-size totems that stand in amiable camaraderie, like well-behaved guests at a cultural soirée.
Bone-skinny, striking and each an individual, Ms. Bourgeois's 19 bronze "Personages" are enigmatic, people-size totems that stand in amiable camaraderie, like well-behaved guests at a cultural soiree.
