"It actually sort of warmed him to the public".
She was chatty in the way you'd expect Ellen Barkin to be — sort of tough yet sort of warm, sort of open, sort of closed.
"It's really just a sort of warm feeling toward people," he said.
"Animals in the jungle, tropical flowers, it all has a sort of warm and sensual feel to it".
He exudes a sort of warm neutrality; you could easily imagine telling him your most troubling secrets.
The message went over well, creating the sort of warm sense of communion between the elite and the proletariat not seen since Cesar Chavez.
It did not help that Mr. Thompson was "not a sort of warm and cuddly person," as one former executive put it.
Even before he began "The Passage," he told me, he was chafing at his reputation as a guy who writes "these sort of warm, warmhearted domestic novels.
I got here with about 10 minutes to spare, put my shoes on, a couple of putts, just your average sort of warm-up back at the course".
But in all the entropy of a wigeon flock in wild motion there was also a sort of warm-blooded joy that even December grey does not extinguish.
