Sentence examples for not amiable from inspiring English sources

"He's an amiable guy," Professor Whalen said of Mr. Brown, "but these are not amiable times.

The one time he showed up to a meeting here, it devolved into a "not amiable situation," residents said.

I grant that those are not amiable feelings; but, in this world of bustle and broil, and especially in the career of writing, a man should calculate upon his powers of resistance before he goes into the arena".

Elephants are not naturally amiable.

Decades of retirement suddenly seemed not so amiable.

But, for the most part, it is not the amiable Charlie who catches the eye in this gathering.

Not so amiable was Mr Hu's "very frank" discussion with Canada's Stephen Harper, a trenchant critic of China's human-rights failings.

That performance went rather well, with the only discouraging words coming from Brahms himself, who described the new symphony as "long and not especially amiable".

Decadence, he labeled this falling away; and while the disillusion did not impede amiable relations with some of the decadents, the bitterness was lifelong.

Closer to South America than to Miami in the Caribbean chain, its waters are warm but dark, not the amiable aqua of other islands.

Hewitt fell temporarily from network grace in 1964, when he lost out in a not especially amiable power struggle with Fred W. Friendly, the then president of CBS News.