It's a zone that, over the years, countless theatergoers have found amiable.
Most often, you find him amiable, amused, desirous of news and gossip, a flashy smile close by.
It would be a nobler fate to find an amiable St Bernard and go on the road from Southsea varieties to Cromer end-of-pier.
Jeff Lindsay's bad boy is back in DEXTER IN THE DARK (Doubleday, $23.95), and what a relief it is to find the amiable serial killer unspoiled by his success as the hero of the Showtime TV series he inspired.
That night the two corporate giants pledge to find an amiable way to close the school budget gap, avert a teachers strike, and promote more equitable student learning.
He could certainly be odious, even to those who found him amiable; many friends were shocked by the lashes that he meted out in the diaries.
Mr. Dinello and the screenwriters, the brothers Steven and Daniel Altiere, have found an amiable and amusing middle ground between adult slacker comedy and frenetic children's farce.
David Kirkpatrick, in a long story for the Times, describes how various members of those militias might have been found in amiable conversations with diplomats before the attacks and then complicit in it the night it happened.
But he and Mr. Cloutier immediately found in "Amiable" themes that recurred across McKay's work, like Communism and labor strikes in Harlem, and characters, like the real-life labor leader Sufi Abdul Hamid.
And the cocktail party was filmed in a house in Englewood, N.J. "We found this amiable couple, and we came in and redid the place very quickly," Mr. Loquasto recalled.
