Sentence examples for especially likeable from inspiring English sources

What Miller isn't is warm – or even especially likeable – but then, that isn't the intention.

Quarante Deux (3.15) has an especially likeable chance in the 12-furlong handicap at Wolverhampton.

Proulx presents a society that is struggling and persisting at best - which is not especially likeable, but for which we still feel tremendous sympathy as it strains to comprehend the meretriciousness of modernity.

"He's a very funny guy and an especially likeable guy – and I think that's sort of the the key," former Tonight Show host Jay Leno told Radio 4 after the broadcast, explaining the Gavin and Stacey actor's appeal.

My male narrators, who often have a lot of me in them, are not especially likeable.

I can't say that any character is especially likeable, more there simply to facilitate progression than become personally attached to, and Need for Speed never does an Until Dawn and reverses first impressions, transforming those once loathed into well-liked hero figures.

She wasn't particularly likeable.

Perhaps the need to stress the character's ordinariness puts its own kind of strain on the film, which possibly goes a little too out of its way to make peripheral characters charming and likeable (especially Hawkins and Rafe Spall as Nathan's sweary, wise-cracking teacher).

He's increasingly likeable, especially when he says "I'll call a cab if you want me to" (as long as he means it) and, finally, in the reference to the condom, which he imagines will be fitted on lovingly, "like a second skin".

New Zealand are a good and likeable team, especially their brilliant captain.

The appeal is that he's just an ordinary kid, with the same weaknesses as the rest of us: not a hero, not magic, not especially talented, just a likeable, funny kid for whom life is a daily struggle.