Typical of Reisenbach, they say, is the tableau that formed on a recent afternoon in the brightly painted lobby, where a handful of parents of kindergartners sat on a bench, chatting amiably as they waited for their offspring to be dismissed.
Although "Waiting for the Light" is slight, it is amiably acted by Miss Garr and the children and spiced up considerably by Miss MacLaine.
He keeps his son waiting for half an hour on purpose, and when Petenka finally explains that he has lost money, Porphyry replies, "amiably": "Well, return it!" When Petenka tells him that he doesn't have that kind of money, Porphyry warns him not to "mix me up in your dirty affairs.
Some exchanges are like conversations you have at the supermarket that amiably go nowhere but make you think, on the drive home, about all the little pieces of profundity in our ordinary interactions, just waiting to flower.
Waiting, waiting, and waiting.
Samuel C. Johnson, the retired patriarch of the Johnson's Wax family of Racine, Wis., waited in line, chatting amiably of his plans for a screening of "Carnauba: A Son's Memoir," a documentary about his family's re-creation of his father's 1935 seaplane trip to Brazil to hunt for wax.
As Lutsky waited, the A.N.A. captain chatted amiably with the owner of the house, a bearded man in his thirties who smiled throughout the search.
At the register, he chatted amiably with the cashier, then asked her to wait while he lumbered off to get a bottle of wine.
Meaning you wait, wait, wait".
You look wonderful!" "Sweetie, how are ya?" Schary said amiably.
