Sentence examples similar to amiable words from inspiring English sources

Sri Lanka's chief censor is an amiable executioner of words.

For example: If you didn't understand what the word amiable meant and the sentence was: "She seemed amiable enough to invite us over for tea next Friday".

Then I started noticing amiable clusters of animal words (that the "dogcow" makes a "moof" was perhaps the most endearing. Did you know that programmers say a company "eats its own dog food" when it uses its own software?) From there some wicked pedantic delving got me sidetracked into googling "scratch monkey" — only to find myself gurgling all over the "Jargon File".

Joanna Cohen, a student at the School at Columbia University who peppers her sentences with words like "amiable" and "headway" and spits out math formulas faster than the teacher can write on the board, sipped on mint tea at her desk (most of her classmates preferred Pepsi or Mountain Dew).

In other words, too amiable and/or bubbly may play out as loads of personality but little competence.

Amiable is not a word traditionally associated with Shakespeare's tale of lust, death and sexual hypocrisy in nasty old Vienna.

The words, spoken in amiable Canadian cadences, drift across the near-silent library, but nobody looks up.

Slightly tipsy, Jeanne nevertheless unleashes her contempt in a stream of testy, flirtatious chatter that the major greets with amiable grunts, a few German words and an expression of hungry relish.

In the words of its amiable CEO, Vineet Jain, Egnyte does not "need to raise money" today, but it is considering it.

It was widely believed that Morgan, who was, in the words of Margaret Gowing, "amiable but not adequate to the task", had been appointed by mistake, having been confused with his namesake, General Sir William Duthie Morgan.

Heavy set, swaddled in black, a little bit socially awkward, they talk in amiable grunts punctuated by the word "awesome", a textbook rockers-on-tour ensemble.