And the term "lao wai," a less than endearing word for foreigner, hangs thickly in the air.
"It's an endearing word now, 'clunker' — this is my little clunker, my old clunker," said Chris Bonk, a talent agent, gesturing toward the 2000 Chevrolet Blazer he was trading in for a Focus at Star Ford in Glendale, Calif.
Then yesterday's win for the term "manspreading" made me think that even when a man or woman is doing it in an irritating way, when the body language isn't exactly endearing, the word describing this seated position has become unnecessarily gendered.
But so successful was the evening that the critic can only throw up his hands, wish you had been there, and quote Ira Gershwin's endearing tombstone inscription: "Words Fail Me".
There are any number of other theories about what might account for descriptions of the mature Apple that actually employ the word "endearing" — theories that include the possibility that we've simply grown used to him.
There are any number of other theories about what might account for descriptions of the mature Apple that actually employ the word "endearing"—theories that include the possibility that we've simply grown used to him.
Fearless, inventive, endearing – just a few words that spring to mind when thinking of Style Bubble's Susanna Lau.
It's all quite endearing and personal – two words one might not often associate with this superhumanly talented and famous couple.
He talks often of his childhood, endearing and rambling stories, his words tender with wisdom.
The text is equally endearing; McCarty knows just which words to pare away.
Gehry is an easy conversationalist, not the prima donna his recent celebrity might suggest, and his words are often endearing.
