Sentence examples for likable figure from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cameron is certainly a more likable figure than Mrs. Thatcher, but likability may not be enough when the British people realize that their current predicament — requiring government spending cuts at a time of rising unemployment and financial chaos in Europe — is actually worse than the crisis when Mrs. Thatcher came to power in 1979.

Mr. Montelongo makes Jake a likable figure.

She taps into the scary, even repulsive, intensity of madness and still makes Carrie a likable figure.

A lolloping, likable figure in fur hat and bright blue trews, Smith turns this into an opportunity to canvass passengers.

If Nanjiani cuts a likable figure, onstage and off, it's because he never pleads to be liked.

Mr. Chapin, who also went to prison, was only 27 when he went to work with the Nixon campaign, and he is perhaps the most likable figure.

Weirdly, for a guy who drugs people he barely knows with roofies and, we are told, is banned from going too near a school, Alan remains a likable, sympathetic figure.

In fact, it's not hard to imagine other critics sculpting their savage reviews days in advance, as Timberlake has quickly morphed into one of the least likable figures in pop music.

Bryant was the face of the franchise for most of his career, meaning that Boston fans would hate him even if he were one of the more likable figures in the league.

The band's frontman, Dave Grohl, is one of the most likable figures in modern music.

While the boys programmed gender into their characters, girls chose familiar and likable figures, such as cats.