Addiction must be considered a disease, as devoid of moral overtones as diabetes or coronary artery disease, just as amenable as they are to scientific analysis, and just as treatable with data-supported interventions, not hope, prayer or hocus-pocus.
But once the PR person does finally drag him over, he is as amenable as a lamb, willingly striking whatever pose the photographer asks and, afterwards, striding towards me with a grin that verges on goofy.
But not all actors are quite as amenable as Halle.
But if new, younger, leaders emerge, they may not be as amenable as the old ones.
The Olympic Club is not an easy proposition at the best of the times but this week is about as amenable as a nest of rattlesnakes.
He seemed as amenable as Dustin Hoffman playing an unemployed actor auditioning in "Tootsie" ("I can be taller. I can be shorter. I can be different").
But as amenable as he was, Reyes did not say he necessarily agreed with the notion that it was, indeed, the best thing.
Whole passages of non-event stream by, and you half want to scream, and yet — damn it all — by the end of "The New World" the spell of the images, plus the enigma of Kilcher's expression (she is as sculpted as an idol, and every bit as amenable to worship), somehow breaks you down.
The disease also strikes males earlier in life than females, more severely affects their cognitive functions, and isn't as amenable to drugs.
In fact, once reliability is established, frequency output from coded discourse can be treated much as frequencies from any engineered system, and are just as amenable to statistical manipulation.
