“Watch out below!” he called amiably, then double-checked that the alligator clips were firmly in place, shut the service-box door, and shinnied back down the pole. ❋ Westlake, Donald E. (1982)
"Come here, girl!" she called amiably in a quavery old-woman voice. ❋ James H. Schmitz (1946)
"But it's half an hour earlier," he protests, in a manner the interviewer calls "amiably disingenuous". ❋ Unknown (2011)
He handled Palin deftly (which is to say amiably and without making a big deal of the fact that she wasn't actually answering the questions), and exhibited a clear grasp of what he was out there to do. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Even when he was working on a shoestring, he revealed the kind of amiably creative flair that is often overlooked by film snobs in their unending quest for audience-unfriendly breakthroughs to punish the paying customers for their bourgeois tastes. ❋ Unknown (1998)
These colleagues were as we had hoped amiably ruthless in discerning “opportunities for improvement” in that draft. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
Instead, the Mexico City-based contemporary circus troupe has cooked up a low-key, mime - and theater-infused fever dream -- quirky, amiably mystifying, and, now and then, a little funny. ❋ Celia Wren (2010)
Richard Tresvant is a very good friend of mine…despite the substantial age difference, Walter Bumgaarten replied amiably. ❋ Cynthia Diane Thornton (2011)
The suspicious-looking young men who used to hang around had vanished, and the old men inside chatted amiably with Hendrickson, praising the improved security. ❋ Karin Brulliard (2010)
I am a firm believer in manners in the Real World, the please and thank you of polite discourse provide a social template that allows strangers to interact amiably. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I open my car door and begin to get out -- but the third soldier pushes me gently back and then leans into the window, peering amiably. “And besides,” I continue, “there were no signs forbidding such photographs. ❋ Lawrence Weschler (2011)
As he chats amiably about his fight with Lamont Peterson here on Saturday night, perhaps his last at light-welterweight before he trains his gaze on Floyd Mayweather Jr for a mega showdown next year, Khan allows the discussion to stray towards his fiancee, Faryal Makhdoom. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It's not exactly Alan Bennett, but it proceeds amiably enough from one well-worn double entendre to the next – and Tim Healy's transvestite barman alone banishes the temptation to channel-hop. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He ate his meals in the hotel restaurant alone, surrounded by scientists chatting amiably at other tables. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Curtis listened amiably and offered to allow his name to be used on whatever letterhead, committee listing or invitation would help. ❋ Tom Teicholz (2010)
I'm not avoiding the point," Lancaster says amiably, "but my philosophy is so strong I'm not going to change it now. ❋ Unknown (2012)
