Critics don't need to be nice (programmatic niceness is itself another sort of self-falsification and self-punishment, and is at least as sanctimonious as self-justifying meanness), but they do need to know where they stand.
The Great British Bake Off is niceness personified, to the extent that the sight of a man putting a cake in a dustbin last year was considered shocking enough to make actual front-page news.
It is a tribute to the essential niceness of the party that so far no wall has been built and no one has been burned at the stake.
She has looked to build a coalition of voters using niceness.
For all Ms Morris's integrity and her niceness, she added to the powerful impression that the government doesn't really know what it's doing.
Mr Howard may be a Thatcherite retread, but nobody doubts that he would be more effective than Mr Duncan Smith.Mr Letwin's palpable niceness would provide a useful counterweight to Mr Howard's chilliness.
Mr Cameron had to show competence ahead of niceness.
Had Labour cut a deal with the Lib Dems, his all-round niceness and lack of tribalism would probably have made him a shoo-in to succeed Mr Brown.In this section A not very odd couple Learning how to share Sprucing up democracy Emerging from the shadow Why Cameron coalesced Good news, for hobbits Finis The love-in ReprintsYet there are doubts.
In the past seven elections when a Senate seat has also been up for election, Republicans have won the presidential contest every time, but Democrats have won the Senate race four times.Any casual conversation shows the state's essential niceness.
These they define as co-operation, collegiality, intuition and niceness, as opposed to the "male values" of competition, hierarchy, rationality and violence.
It is now too broke seriously to try.That leaves the purported niceness of Mr Darling's tightened squeeze on the rich, via the upwardly revised new rate of income tax on earnings above £150,000 ($218,000) and other pinches.
