Storm Thorgerson could be inscrutable, grand and archly funny – all qualities that placed him some distance from the music industry's standard mixture of flimsy bonhomie and superficiality.
There's nothing like cramming 10 people and a bottle of vodka into a two-man tent during a freak summer snowstorm for creating a sense of bonhomie.
This was a version of France that is hard to find in Paris or further south; with the beer and the bonhomie you could be much further north in Europe.
Perhaps Boris sits at home polishing his Alexander McQueen loafers, while cultivating scruffy bonhomie in public".
It confirms that behind the bonhomie and the blond mop is an amoral politician".
But despite much bonhomie, regional harmony remains elusive.
RARELY in modern diplomacy has so much breezy, grinning bonhomie been displayed before so many people in so many places.
The "ASEAN way" involves consensus, bonhomie and progress that is at best incremental and often imperceptible.
But it has not pressed the point.All this bonhomie, however, will not mean a return to the friendship of the 1980s.
It used to be joked that the main qualifications for attendance at its ministerial bashes were the ability to speak English, and a fondness for golf, karaoke and durian, a pungent fruit.The easy-going bonhomie has helped unite ten very diverse countries.
Cameras in tow, he would breeze into a company, dispensing blunt criticism, bonhomie and brisk advice in equal portions.
