If this new piece had been merely adequate, the crowd would have been happy, but it turned out to be a lucid, vivid, potent score — one of the most immediately likable works in Carter's huge and sometimes forbidding output.
Well, as Josh Barro writes, it's nothing earth-shattering: he's likable, he works with people from the opposite party and he governs well.
My colleague cites him as a model for a more reasonable brand of Republicanism, one that accepts that government has a job to do and that compromises must be struck with the opposition: "he's likable, he works with people from the opposite party and he governs well".
Sothern doesn't make a concerted effort to be more likable in his photography, especially considering the triggering nature of his work.
She began working in TV as a child -- her first feature film was "Peggy Sue Got Married" (1986) -- and amassed a solid, likable body of work until "Mad About You," in which she found a place for her greatest strengths as an actress, a fundamental modesty and dignity.
And, for the most part, they are as clever, catchy and likable as his best work.
We attempted to make them as likable as possible, to work against the darkness, because the balance was crucial".
And funnily enough, although The Murder Bag features a string of grisly murders, I found it more likable than his earlier work, too.
And they're so eminently likable and wonderful to work with.
