Rio Clarinho was a bit shabby — its bathrooms could use an overhaul — but a likable, honest place.
It's a genre that has become known as a place where likable actors can cash big paychecks for trying to be likable in unlikable movies, undermining their likability in the process.
But the phrase "an obvious enchantment" is also mysterious, elusive, suggestive of the world of uncertainty in which Ms. Malarkey places her likable heroine, an archaeologist-anthropologist named Ingrid Holtz who is a flickering column of light trying to penetrate the shadows of a world of exotic intrigue.
Because, like Arthur and Terry, Archie and Jamie are likable enough in the first place.
That comes thanks to the intimate, inward-looking story laid out by Chandor, who told The Huffington Post that his focus was on trying to point out that, regardless of whether those on Wall Street are likable, the financial system in place allowed them to make that sort of economy-damaging decision.
On making the bad guy likable: "I put myself in his place.
But those picked nits will, I hope, be more observations than wounding criticisms, because this place is so damn likable.
In such places, the characters in this likable production flex their emotional muscles and speak about their lives.
He has some of what Bono has: likable self-regard, an infectious belief that his rightful place is onstage, with thousands of fans singing along.
There are likable prostitutes and soulful Indians, but really they are just place holders for the next stampede.
