Sentence examples for in amiable terms from inspiring English sources

By contrast, with wit and clarity, Lewis talked, in amiable terms Socrates himself might have admired, about simple and humble choices between right and wrong.

Faced with an extremely friendly face – Ben is an admitted Labour voter, and had burbled in most amiable terms about Corbyn's "unpolished… approachable" appeal to younger Labourites, Jeremy still chose the path of most resistance.

Raja Prithvi Singh (1641-1664 AD), who was on amiable terms with Emperor Shahjahan was instrumental in introducing the court life styles of the Mughals.

In private correspondence, however, Osborn wrote that the two had essentially separated, though they remained on amiable terms.

Ray Davies, who was still on amiable terms with Avory, invited him to manage Konk Studios.

Leaving your wife will be a brutal process, even if you manage to separate on fairly amiable terms.

The term "Aframerican," which McKay used to refer to black people in the Western Hemisphere, also appeared in "Amiable".

They see their parents getting divorced; they occasionally hear their divorced parents talking to each other in amiable fashion.

Mr. Godard, then just three weeks shy of his 80th birthday, kept his customary distance from his American admirers, several of whom stepped up to the microphone that night to toast him in terms that, in their amiable vagueness, betrayed the general bafflement that was, and is, the most characteristic effect of his stubborn art.

In "Shattered Glass," he played a magazine editor who discerned hidden evil in an amiable writer.

Could converse with anyone in an amiable and original way.