The fact remains, though, that in an era of Chinese dominance, Britain has a self-made bona fide diving heavyweight, a lively, likeable pop-kid of the high board who has now won exactly 50% of Britain's Olympic diving medals since the 1920s.
Whatever the emphasis, there is nothing very likeable about a kid who breaks into someone else's home and tries out their things.
That got me thinking about how amazing and impressive it is that the sweet, likeable and ambitious kid I first met in a Florida corporate park as a teenager more than a decade ago has gradually become a singular sensation -- arguably our current pop culture's smartest guy in the room, for real.
Wes Anderson gets his eccentric groove back on with a witty and likeable movie for little kids and their hip older siblings.
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Puerile as it is, the film is quite brave, showing Indian kids in a much more likeable and honest light than this summer's tame smash-hit Jaane Tu, which portrayed them as mollycoddled uber-nerds.
And of the fragile freaks that have happily stained the outer limits of rock over the years, from Jobriath to Kid Strange, he is the most likeable and for whatever reasons the most popular.
You think more about it while I remind you that Randy just said that this kid, Pat Ford, can't sing but is likeable and would be a "great hang".
The fact that they were clever, dogged and bold cannot disguise the truth that the brothers were also malevolent.James Tobin strives to make them more likeable by using their diminutive names throughout his biography: Wilbur Wright is called Will and Orville, his kid brother, Orv.
