But Jeanette was actually one of my most agreeable patients.
My remarkably agreeable husband became a little less sanguine about the prospect of hours of commuting.
This was it - a chance for me to give something back to the man responsible for my mellow, agreeable state.
In my variation, my wife or an agreeable friend stays on my left as I move about or stand in a group.
For example, when I was coming out of the oral surgery, groggy and agreeable, my alleged lawyer, the vicious John Rothstein, was standing over my bed holding documents and asking me to sign them.
A 3-year contract on my doorstep is more agreeable than uprooting my family to foreign shores for what might only be only a one-year stint.
Even a palazzo like Mar-a-Lago has a finite number of guest rooms, and surely these were going to accommodate the happy couple's innermost social circle, and surely my wife's agreeable but plainly journalistic interactions with Melania could not have propelled her, plus me, into the sanctum sanctorum.
If I get a laugh, it's a personal gain: my content is agreeable.
("For the intimate companionship of my table I choose the agreeable not the wise; in my bed, beauty comes before virtue," he once said).
Thoreau left off eating meat because he found it "not agreeable to my imagination" and considered vegetarianism "part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement".
