Jim is a likeable character, not so much afraid of other people as worried what harm might befall them because of him.
But I'm not so sure that girls are likeable, and I think this goes for girlish women like Anne Hathaway, who retain a bounding, uncontained energy.
Even in the darkest moments, the plot is so tightly constructed and the characters so likeable, you can't help but feel like you're having a good time when watching Hannibal.
She is so likeable and watchable, like Jennifer Aniston but not as whiny.
But, and this is what makes him so likeable, he's also suggested he isn't quite up to the job – "lightly raced" was the apt analogy he used for his management career thus far.
The problem, for him, is not so much Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the centre-left Democratic party (PD), who seems reasonably competent and likeable.
A generation of children has now grown up with, and cherishes, this story of an intrepid, likeable little girl named Coraline Jones, at the end of her summer school holidays in East Sussex, not so long ago.
We thought, he's so likeable.
He's so likeable in real life, really funny, quite light.
But not since Flaubert made Madame Bovary drink arsenic and dribble black bile from her pretty mouth in punishment for her sins has an author dealt so harshly with a heroine so likeable.
