And so it was, agreeable in every respect.
In other research, psychologists have found that such couples are typically composed of partners who both are agreeable in all spheres of life, marriage among them.
But while Obama has been agreeable in mentioning the unions in his speeches, the president struggles with making the promises come true.
The Hampshire vicar William Gilpin, gave us the Picturesque: "that particular kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture", laying out his prescription for what constituted the perfect view.
The former, according to William Gilpin in his "Essay on Prints" in 1768, could be defined as "that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture", while the latter conjured up an intensity of pleasure aroused by scenes that evoked fear, horror, strangeness and awe – as long as you were perfectly safe yourself.
The weather had been agreeable in the days leading up to the climb, but then turned nasty.
I remember back in my corporate days, whenever I was stuck in one of those long meetings that I had no interest being in, I would smile and be agreeable, but in my mind I was silently saying "Whatever".
It might say, for example, that refugees have a right of return to their homes, but that the forms of compensation, the number of returnees, etc., must be agreeable to Israel, and that, in any case, the majority will exercise that right by returning to a future Palestinian state.
The intervention was comprehensive and appeared to be agreeable to and suitable for farmworkers in the Yakima Valley.
