Sentence examples for to likeable from inspiring English sources

A poet who refers to one of his later collections with a collusive wink as "a transitional volume" is either insufferably pompous, which Heaney is not, or given to likeable self-mockery, which he abundantly is.

Among a democracy's many systemic weaknesses is an electorate's susceptibility to the devices of fiction - to "likeable characters", clear-cut villains, suspense, and the satisfying arc of traditional narrative, including conflict, crisis, and resolution.

TV debates are to real debate what The Voice is to likeable talent.

It may be over-simplistic, but here there's a temptation to say that City, like Barcelona, want to be likeable; to avoid being seen just as arrivistes.

As Hubert points out, "We not only need to be "likeable" to our male colleagues, but also to our female colleagues".

To simply be generous, open and engaged, on the other hand, is a simple recipe to appear likeable to anyone.

And it is fun to listen to a likeable, rather folksy man unafraid to speak his mind.

And Ruston agrees with Maxted – heroines don't have to be likeable for readers to want to live in their world: "Remember how addictive Dynasty was?

I'm not categorically drawn to "sympathetic" or "likeable" characters.

To succeed you need to be likeable, creative and be able to think outside of the box.

The Eurosport article stated that Rosberg, the German of Finnish parentage raised in Monaco, "exudes the kind of down to earth, likeable personality that people seem to be able to affiliate with".