Tell a kid that his mum has gone to a "better place" and you can't fault for him wondering why she didn't take him too, and create a sense of abandonment, of not being likeable enough for the one person he loved the most to stick around, or believe that he did something wrong that made her decide to leave.
What we get is likeable enough: his pleasure in his new toy is infectious.
So maybe it's finally OK that she's "likeable enough".
In a debate there, he showed veiled disdain for his opponent, saying that she was "likeable enough".
James and Dwyane Wade have been likeable enough fellows in their various selling poses, including James as a mischievous puppet and Wade as Charles Barkley's co-star in clever cellphone commercials.
As for Eli Stone, its problem, as President-elect Obama once told his potential secretary of state, was that it was "likeable enough".
This friend and I watched the debates together, and howled at Obama's insulting "You're, you're likeable enough, Hillary" together.
Never mind the personal peculiarities of Clinton; for the first woman with a real shot at the White House to nestle, even for a moment, on any man's chest, particularly the one who, just eight years ago, dismissed her in debate as being "likeable enough," well, as social media reflected in its frenzied reaction, the moment spoke volumes.
There's nothing subversive going on with Dapper Laughs; he wants to be part of the establishment, it's just that he probably isn't really funny, interesting or likeable enough to make it there.
While designing the character, Soejima noted "the main character needs to be well-rounded enough to be likeable, but also needs that extra little something to make him stand out from the rest of the cast".
