"It's basically nice to know that someone is thinking of us somewhere else".
Well, I think he is a basically nice guy who has fallen into a trap: the trap of imprecatory denial.
Wouldn't it be actually nice to help basically nice but emotionally inept people take control of their love lives?
Their motto is their hairstyle ("business in the front, party in the back"), but they are basically nice boys.
We didn't try this, having failed to convince the children that noodles were basically "nice pasta".
She's basically nice and posh at heart, but having a bit of fun.' Hence the sleek pencil skirts and the curvier silhouette.
He matches Alex's description of Mitchell as a basically nice guy who is "damaged goods enough to keep things interesting".
He may be hollow, but he seems a basically nice kid, a teenager who doesn't appear to possess the kind of hatred (or, frankly, imagination) required for the pig's head stunt.
"He's a combination of libertarian, fiscal conservative, and a basically nice guy who doesn't want to do anything he thinks is wrong," Bill Carrick, a Democratic strategist, told me.
Perhaps I should really start it this way: I write fiction for a living, and my wife is an illustrator, and these are basically nice ways of saying that we just don't get anything about one single thing.
