Sentence examples for basically good guy from inspiring English sources

Voters no longer see him as a grown-up, straight-shooter and basically good guy who is trying to do his best, but as a political opportunist taking advantage of their charity and trust.

"We felt it was important because many of those American spectators didn't really know some of us and they didn't know that we're basically good guys and love the game of golf and people and competition," Langer said.

While Michael Verhoeven's 1990 film Das Schreckliche Mädchen (The Nasty Girl), was about a troublesome teen excavating the Nazi past older people in her village had tried to bury, Generation War is the reverse, suggesting most Germans, symbolised by this quintet, were basically good guys misled by the real Nazis, who are a kind of symbolic Other on to which war guilt can be projected.

All I want is someone reasonable who is basically a good guy.

Asked how he'd like to be remembered, Tony shrugged and said 'as basically a good guy'.

But at the same time we're meant to think that he's basically a good guy.

There is tension between the mother and the boys; the father removes himself from conflict, but is basically a good guy.

Saul's a big tipper – one of those little "save the cat" details that reminds us that he's still basically a good guy.

In fact I think the good British public will see, over time, that he is a basically a good guy in a hell of a difficult position who is doing a decent job for the country".

Verwoerd, he declares, was basically a very good guy.

"I'm a good guy, basically," he tells his psychiatrist, not long after he has murdered a close relation.