Sentence examples for kind of agreeable from inspiring English sources
We had reached a kind of agreeable stand-off.
Hockey, then, is linked in his mind with a kind of agreeable seediness and also an urbane feeling of excitement.
But it would be stretching our "special relationship" too far to suggest that our shared weeds make up a kind of agreeable green commonwealth.
These are mainly sun-kissed blues, accessed by an old triple chair manned by the kind of agreeable lifties that are rare in Europe.
It's nice to fantasize about the kind of agreeable family tie (as well as the sympathetic linkage among author, artist and publisher) that might produce a book like this one.
From "time to time", eh? Sounds pretty serious to Monkey, and the kind of agreeable pipe-dreaming that might also serve to relieve the tedium of committee sessions on, say, the technicalities of extending broadband to remote areas.
This was followed in 1688 by a German periodical with an unwieldy title but one that well expressed the intention behind many a subsequent magazine: "Entertaining and Serious, Rational and Unsophisticated Ideas on All Kinds of Agreeable and Useful Books and Subjects".
Approval is a kind of pleasant or agreeable feeling; disapproval a kind of painful or disagreeable feeling.
The Hampshire vicar William Gilpin, gave us the Picturesque: "that particular kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture", laying out his prescription for what constituted the perfect view.
When the English essayist Joseph Addison visited Lake Geneva's Alps in 1699, describing them as "an agreeable kind of horror" in his travelogue "Remarks on Several Parts of Italy," he probably didn't know he was kick-starting a literary trend that would later draw the likes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edward Gibbon, Byron, the Shelleys, Mark Twain and Hemingway.
I agree, Dutch people in general aren't always the most socially agreeable kind of people; but there's a subset of tech-enthusiasts in Amsterdam that exhibit all the right qualities to be around as a startup.
