Last week, Mr. Wells was an amiable host, chain-smoking through a tour of the raw, rocky land on his still-growing compound, pointing out the ravaged beauty of a gully and the bulldozed bit he is hoping will turn into a temporary lake, come the April rains.
Craggs is an amiable host, the setting is breathtakingly beautiful, and when Briggs and his bandmates give an unplugged performance of Bonxie's first single "Get Low" in front of an upturned boat that has been transformed into a beach hut, the small, appreciative audience includes some curious Japanese tourists and a curlew.
But on Friday Mr. Ghimere himself seemed less like a journalist readying himself for years in prison than the rumpled, amiable host of a festive wake.
She, a native of Bangkok, runs the kitchen; he, a longtime resident of the area and a volunteer firefighter, is the amiable host in the dining room.
"We're still on a mission," says LeVar Burton, the amiable host and executive producer of the TV show and co-founder of the Reading Rainbow app.
In the house of my amiable host family, I saw a painting inspired by the work of a Shanghai-based novelist that my mother personally knows.
The expressive momentum and collegial rapport built through the evening's final work, the "American" Quintet (Op. 104), in which the timbre of the two violists made a rich alto sound and Mr. Isserlis, ever the amiable host, grounded the ensemble with warm autumnal playing in the bass.
Gary, 66, who left Lebanon at 21 to receive an engineering degree from UCLA, has long since given up his job at Hughes Aircraft to serve as the amiable host, shaking hands, patting backs, offering a little dessert or a bag of homemade bread or confections to his regulars.
*On-their-toes staff members who takes their lead from the amiable host.
Mike Rowe, the amiable host of "Dirty Jobs," finds cheerful workers wherever he goes, and he goes to places like ostrich farms to talk to the people who handle excrement.
The cuddly doyen of TV-am, laidback presenter of Through the Keyhole and amiable host of Breakfast With Frost is surely the last person anyone would imagine capable of skewering a widely vilified former president.
