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Example sentences for: amiable
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At best, Shakespeare's Henry V was, as critic William Hazlitt wrote, "an amiable monster"--"that is, he was ready to sacrifice his own life for the pleasure of destroying thousands of other lives."
Prudie thinks it's marvelous that you and your spouse of two decades are able to unhitch in a civilized, amiable manner.
I'm thinking in particular of Frances McDormand's unflappable pregnant cop in Fargo ; John Turturro's Barton Fink, the mediocre leftist playwright who tries to go Hollywood; and in the new film, Jeff Bridges' incarnation of Jeff Lebowski, a k a the Dude, an amiable stoner who is drawn into a Big Sleep -inspired kidnap scheme.
The only two finalists with any kind of a shot are Miss America--a surprisingly leggy Pat Buchanan--and Miss Germany--an unexpectedly amiable Adolf Hitler.
Mayor Riordan is a Republican, although one of those splendid reforms keeps that fact a secret from voters, and he's an amiable enough guy who has used his rhetorical and organizational muscle to force some changes--or at least rumors of changes--at the school board.