But he is also patient (not a trait often associated with him), engaged, funny, self-reflective and thoughtful.
Basically, it wasn't how you'd expect a bunch of engaged, funny, literate, literary, mostly young writers and thinkers this is how I think of my Twitter feed, and it's kind of true, even!—to respond to the news that one of the most exciting and funny writers working today was going to have something new for them to read in less than a year.
But the best thing is this: keeping company with smart, engaged, curious, loving, funny, kind people of all ages prevents me from sinking into a kind of reverse age-ism – from thinking that I'm cooler or smarter or better able to deal with the world just because I've been around longer.
He can be clever and engaged and funny and humane – or smug, humourless, and cold to the point of cruel.
The official, Paul Condon, told the London Evening Standard that cricket matches were "routinely fixed" during the late 1990s and ever team has engaged in "funny stuff".
You send your assistant flowers to apologize that your company is engaged in funny business.
Representative David R. Obey of Wisconsin, the ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said the White House was engaged in "funny-money budgeting" for domestic defense programs.
Mr. Rickles and his insult-comedy shtick have grown more irritating as he has aged, but he's nothing but engaging here: funny, knowledgeable and even a bit warmhearted.
Still, many sly touches engage the funny bone in this production at Bay Street, where Mr. Busch enjoyed an adoring reception last year for a revival of his 1989 play "The Lady in Question," another movie spoof.
This pocket-size book — the fifth in n+1's pamphlet series, and a follow-up to 2007's "What We Should Have Known" — features engaging, often funny conversations with twelve female writers, editors, academics, activists, and artists about reading in their late teens and early twenties.
Executive compensation policies give the top bosses incentive to engage in funny accounting, so they pump up the stock prices.
