Rubin and Simmons amiably disputed where they had first met — Danceteria? a loft party on the West Side?
This is a strange pairing indeed: Mighty Flashlight, the new project from Mike Fellows of the Washington punk progenitors Rites of Spring and Matt Sweeney of the smart and heavy New York rock band Chavez, meet the amiably gnarly, laid-back folk hero Michael Hurley, who made his name in the 1960's hanging out with the Holy Modal Rounders and still produces excellent minimalist balladry.
Mr. Sharif met Mr. Vajpayee's predecessor, I. K. Gujral, and they emerged amiably, stirring hopes for a breakthrough in the chilly relations between the two countries.
Behind us, in the restaurant's bared façade, a couple who might have met on a photo shoot fingered their flat whites and gazed amiably into each other's teeth.
Soon after Simmons arrived we watched him wander off, momentarily, to chat amiably with a table of casually dressed youths, who, he later explained, he had met during the airplane flight to Bilbao.
Last week the two leaders met the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, and were seen to be smiling and chatting amiably.Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, would obviously like to claim the ceremony on May 8th as the moment when local rule was finally embedded in Northern Ireland.
When the two men met in January, they bonded over being unlikely poster boys: "He ordered a salad and we chatted amiably about the unearned feminist hysteria we both received at certain points in our careers," Ellis tweeted.
In a remarkable passage covering her past before she met John, real life, harsh and complex, suddenly crashes into the narrative of the life of a dreamy, posy, amiably ambitious young fellow; extensive quotations from Penelope's superbly written diaries, stories and novels offer an unforgettably unsparing analysis of the man she so deeply and despairingly loved.
Shad met a seventy-four-year-old man who was "ambivalent" about same-sex marriage — but he had a gay son, and after they spoke amiably for several minutes the man promised to think more about the subject.
As Charlie Hough, the pitching coach, met with Jeff D'Amico on the mound at Yankee Stadium in the third inning last night, all three Yankees' base runners chatted amiably with the Mets' fielders.
Shad met a seventy-four-year-old man who was "ambivalent" about same-sex marriage but he had a gay son, and after they spoke amiably for several minutes the man promised to think more about the subject.
