That's why so many words of abuse begin with a B, and why a word such as spit sounds so repelling - as in Auden's threat to those who might be tempted to trespass into his private domain: "I have no gun, but I can spit". Aitch suggests something amenable, affable, amicable, where haitch is harder, harsher, more hostile.
Brubeck, though an entirely unpretentious, amused and amusing man, had something of the affable, quietly hip professor about him.
Garret Dillahunt (Deadwood, Justified) plays John, a true Texas gunslinger and something of an affable loner.
In other words, he's sponsored by Sprite, something a more affable MC might bury when a rival beverage is footing the bill.
Obviously, behind Damon's usually affable exterior, something about Gilroy had really got up his nose.
But while he's clearly angry, McConnaghy – an affable 70 something – doesn't sound like a stereotypical Brexiteer.
Filmtracks.com described "Something There" as an "affable" song.
While she curled up with a book, I popped off to play golf.I fell in with a dozen affable twenty-something lads.
SOME CHESAPEAKE SKEPTICS compare the company to Enron, something that sends the usually affable McClendon into a "highly insulted" rage.
Adds investor relations guy Mobley: "If there's incremental value to be gained, we're willing to be more complicated". SOME CHESAPEAKE SKEPTICS compare the company to Enron, something that sends the usually affable McClendon into a "highly insulted" rage.
Compulsive CNBC watchers will recognize Joseph Park, the affable, energetic 20-something who, along with his buddy Yong Kang, left jobs in investment banking to pursue what they, without irony or embarrassment, call their "vision".
