Those eyebrows up in the middle, the odd smile that sometimes showed only the bottom teeth and that sincere, friendly demeanor.
The human warmth that relieves the isolated Professor Michael Beard from this nightmarish incident is provided by a fellow guest on the trip, the artist Stella Polkinghorne, a sincere, friendly, idealistic figure.
"This society is so complicated, and if you just tell a child to be honest, that would be stupid," he said in the interview, asserting his hope that his daughter could simply be "a sincere and friendly person".
The Duchenne smile is perceived as more sincere, honest, friendly, and approachable.
Lieberman is, in his own way, an all-American -- i.e., Christian -- character, earnest, hokey, friendly and sincere as all get-out.
This with a disgust no less sincere for being friendly.
He said: "Måns is one of the most sincere, loving and friendly celebrities I have ever met and I know how much he regrets his comments.
The friendly, sincere absurdism favored by Mr. Keret, Ms. Geffen and Ms. Hubley, which takes some of its cues from a movie like Miranda July's "Me, You and Everyone We Know," seems to be an especially fruitful style at the moment.
For the next week, the New Directors/New Films series -- or "Serious Directors/Small Films," as A. O. Scott prefers to think of it -- offers "friendly, sincere absurdism" (think Miranda July's "Me and You and Everyone We Know") and "unadorned realism" in more than 30 movies at Lincoln Center and MoMA.
I wanted to be sincere and outrageous and friendly and rude and experimental and conventional".
No wonder this hotel has such a loyal following, with many returning to what is ultimately an unpretentious, low-key, friendly and sincere retreat.
