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 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.
But as amenable as he was, Reyes did not say he necessarily agreed with the notion that it was, indeed, the best thing.
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.
By and large, Kaine's governing style has been perceived as amenable to compromise in an era of partisan gridlock.
For example, Stevens did not treat operational definitions as a priori but as amenable to improvement in light of empirical discoveries, implying that he took psychological attributes to exist independently of such definitions (Stevens 1935: 527).
Several of their top people, known as "the Garang boys", are amenable, as was Mr Garang, to the idea of a federal Sudan with an autonomous south.
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.
