Sentence examples for as amiable from inspiring English sources

Mr. Abraham for his part is as amiable as Mr. Kearns, by many reports, was not.

The center fielder has been as amiable as always: unfailingly friendly and, at the same time, distant, introverted.

She is as amiable as Kamla Jaan is gruff and is the guru to 20 hijra disciples.

It took an enormous amount of negotiation to get him there, though when he was there he was as friendly and as amiable as you could wish.

As he begins to learn, Treves realises that the Elephant Man is not only sane but, as he put it, "a gentle, affectionate and lovable creature, as amiable as a happy woman".

Initially concerned if these African Americans were hustlers who would expect money, Lynes, reassured by Stewart, was delighted to discover that the charming beauties were as amiable as they were hot.

But so be it and on with the nuptials in Joel Zwick's film, which struck most critics as "an amiable comedy," as Dave Kehr wrote in The New York Times, before word-of-mouth turned it into a runaway hit.

Jonathan Stafford, who has often been content to perform as an amiable blank, shows, as Ivan, that he can characterize with glee and charm.

As for the Italians themselves, they are usually happy to enjoy a joke about their Roman ancestors - particularly when they are presented, as Astérix's adversaries are, as rather amiable bad guys, held back from serious evil by sheer inefficiency.

"And as gifted and amiable as John Edwards may be, he's simply not as extraordinary a politician as Obama".

Without wishing to seem ageist, neither Janet Dale as the selfish Doris nor Routledge as the amiable Doreen quite suggest women in mid-career living in fear of redundancy.