Sentence examples for display of affability from inspiring English sources

From China's point of view the display of affability was intended not only for the regional audience but for the wider listening gallery, particularly the one in Washington.

He first lulled to rest the apprehensions of the leaders of the late revolt by a display of affability and courtesy, and then, during an entertainment at the government house, treacherously arrested them and hurried them off to prison.

He displayed a mixture of luxury and industry, of affability and insolence, of good and wicked arts.

Throughout the film, the principal performers behave with the mix of affability and reserve they might display when meeting a group of people for the first time.

Ordinarily, Crittendon, an athletic man of fifty-three, is a model of affability.

Representative Ron Paul of Texas was his usual mix of affability and pep — with a side of curmudgeon — during his turn before the attorneys general.

Another problem for him was that Reagan did come across as a nice man; Reagan's style is one of geniality, of affability.

In the interim, Monaghan gives us a richly ironic Richard who delights in assuming a mask of affability while twirling his right-hand crutch with demonic glee.

In real life, as in a recent benefit for Change for Kids, a charity for New York City public schools, Ms. Essman is the soul of affability.

Patients many times cannot adequately assess ability or fund of knowledge but they are excellent judges of affability.

This sense of affability may well have helped him sell at least a dozen others on the idea of rallying against Ramadan inside their local supermarket.