Sentence examples for amiable on from inspiring English sources

When they arrived three days later, Jim Williams sat his daughter down with the soft smile she had come to know so well, cheerful and amiable on the outside, but under which was the resolve that has allowed the Tlingit to survive in this rough country for the last 10,000 years.

Willis said Palin's "amiable on-screen manner belies the seriousness of his craft", adding there were "few individuals more worthy" of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' highest honour.

Or maybe he's just too modest and amiable to insist on being the most interesting person in his own story.

Amiable doc on the veteran fashion photographer; one to file next to The September Issue.

The tall young man in the back row, on the right, a serious but amiable expression on his face, is the teenage Nelson Mandela.

On TV, particularly in the morning, audiences want less threatening faces – such as daggy David Koch on Seven's Sunrise or Nine's amiable Karl Stefanovic on Today.

Mr. Rajaratnam, a Sri Lankan native, intently watches the proceedings with an amiable expression on his face, occasionally jotting a note on a legal pad or whispering to one of his lawyers.

He amassed a huge range of qualifications and, with his amiable outlook on life, was an ideal teacher – no one would argue that he was the best in the jazz field.

She rushed around to some shops, took a tube to Hoboken, gave a birthday cake, some records, and appropriate instructions to an amiable conductor on an appropriate train, and telephoned her boy, who showed up on the appropriate platform and received the goods.

Service is amiable and on target.

Danko was the amiable hayseed on bass and occasional fiddle.