Sentence examples for making himself agreeable from inspiring English sources

What was almost unique about him and makes his career so fascinating is that what the ordinary careerist achieves by making himself agreeable, falsely or otherwise, Reggie achieved by making himself disagreeable.

A man performs but one duty -- the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself".

He made himself agreeable to all around him, and his biographers attest that he led a chaste life in this respect uninfluenced by the king.

"He made himself very agreeable, and I have three compliments, which I look upon as for you, not for me, and have saved up accordingly for exportation to Cuba," she writes to Bahlmann, who was evidently travelling in another family's service.

Some days, Bernie and his wife, Kirsten, do go hungry, and Kirsten addresses this problem by making herself agreeable to American soldiers who have access to a PX.

Trump, in his tussle with Megyn Kelly of Fox News, and with womankind in general, might also draw comfort from Rousseau's view of "woman" as "specially made to please man," who "must make herself agreeable to man rather than provoke him".

Indeed, all the previous agreements he cites involved the two sides making mutually agreeable policy bargains.

Harmonisation differs from standardisation in that it does not impose a single methodology or norm, but rather seeks to find ways of integrating or making "an agreeable effect" from information gathered through disparate methodologies.

Does home environment -- parenting style, marital harmony, the use or rejection of day care -- shape a child's personality, making her more agreeable, less aggressive or more extroverted?

"You make yourself agreeable wherever you go," Johnson told him.

This, coupled with the understanding of the sisters in charge, makes life agreeable for her.