There's an element of amiable self-parody about a lot of this that makes it bearable.
Her amiable self-titled album also has a cover of the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" — same shtick.
A début album and festival performances soon followed impressive feats that Alexander handled with amiable self-effacement.
One character, Octave, an amiable, self-described failure who is the confidant of both Jurieu and Christine, wanders off alone into the night, going nowhere in particular.
Neil Furman, an amiable, self-effacing associate, who is forty-seven, and who has also worked at the bookshop for fifteen years, and Emily Pettigrew, a young, recently hired assistant, sit at desks beneath the mezzanine.
Renowned for his extreme fitness into middle age and beyond, the amiable, self-deprecating Thomson continued to play for the Wolves All Stars, a side of former Molineux men which raises money for charity, in 2008 after his health had begun to fail, and he coached youngsters until shortly before his death.
Hagen-born Henning Wehn is aware of the prejudices about his country - that the people are humourless, pedantic, and ruthlessly efficient - but the amiable, self-deprecating and witty way in which he exploits those stereotypes throws a gentle light on the boorishness and jingoism that are part of the British psyche.
Columnist Stephen Holden of The New York Times described LL Cool J as "a brawny young giant with the animal magnetism and amiable self-assurance of the young Muhammad Ali".
The pair had emerged empty-handed from five or six of the huts when Rafe, ever his amiable, accommodating self, pointed to a white hootch ahead and called out, "There's a pretty girl in there!
Ms. Poole is funny, amiable and self-deprecating.
Still, she is the most amiable of self-lacerators, seemingly always grateful for the attention.
