For all his talk of freedom, he provided his young Émile with an amiable tyrant for a teacher, severely restricting his reading to one book Robinson Crusoe.
Mercifully, they were not intimidating, proficient backpackers but an amiable group of mainly teachers and wildlife and history buffs who spent their time joining various tours or going it alone.
The likable ensemble of diversely talented performers has the amiable manner of your favorite kindergarten teachers.
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.
The session was at times persnickety and at times amiable, with "Happy Birthday" sung to a Sunday school teacher who offered the opening prayer.
Frankly, Mr. Kachikian has been a truly amiable witness, who seems more like a confusing computer/science teacher than a wiretapping and conspiracy defendant.
The high-voltage Menzel goes through her paces, accompanied by her boss/friend Stephen Jerry Dixonn), excruciatingly earnest housing activist Lucas Anthony Rappp) and kindergarten teacher Kate (a fun LaChanze), alongside their amiable mates (Jenn Colella and Jason Tam).
To judge from her student evaluations, she was less an amiable mediocrity than a controversial iconoclast, striking some as a master teacher and others as an incoherent mess.
That night the two corporate giants pledge to find an amiable way to close the school budget gap, avert a teachers strike, and promote more equitable student learning.
Pragmatic and amiable, perhaps.
