Sentence examples for amiable surface from inspiring English sources
Beneath its amiable surface, Jordan hosts many dangerously competing tensions.
His letters to them all are kind and attentive, and his visits to Columbus were fairly regular, if not frequent, but the family reaction to "The Thurber Album" suggests that a dynamic of anger and resentment had always underlain the amiable surface.
Mr. Lithgow's interpretation is more subtle, endowing Hunsecker with an amiable, avuncular surface.
And luckily, the series has a wicked spirit coursing beneath its amiable do-good surface, with enough bite to entice viewers and maybe even to bring NBC back from the brink.
Sunny, amiable and open, Henry is her precise opposite.
She is a happy drunk, at least on the surface, attractive, amiable, and good-natured, the sort of girl anyone, male or female, would try to hit on in a bar.
Both actors are less adept, I'm afraid, in bringing alive the unruly feelings that begin to simmer under the surface of their amiable if sometimes fractious relationship when they make a startling discovery: Zachariah's new pen pal, Miss Ethel Lange, is a white woman.
Like the visiting Passalus, we in the audience hear both the surface pleasantries and the fraught interior voices, as an amiable weekend at a luxurious beach house on Long Island becomes an unforeseen rite of passage for more than one character.
Those who worked side by side with him saw an amiable if intensely shy student with a quick smile and a laconic air, whose quirky sense of humor surfaced in goofy jokes — "Take that to the bank," he said while giving a presentation about an enzyme known as A.T.M. — and wry one-liners.
Pragmatic and amiable, perhaps.
