And he serves as a knowledgeable, amiable host to a day out exploring the local artisan food and wine producers olive oil, honey, cheese, vinegar and the small crustacean Yabbies among them.
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Her husband, Andy (Jim Broadbent), is an amiable dawdler, a guy who starts ambitious home-improvement projects and never quite gets around to finishing them.
Mr Weld, a capable and amiable Republican, seemed to be in with a good chance when President Clinton named him.
Intelligent and amiable, he demonstrates a confident virtuosity beyond the average precocious proto-genius.
Albie Morkel injured his leg after a collision with Vaughn van Jaarsveld chasing a top edge in the deep but it not dampen South African spirits, which were soon lifted again as the amiable Tsotsobe appealed for a return catch from Johnson almost as an after-thought, replays confirming a clear dismissal.
Bhutanese archery is a highly sociable, often alcohol-fuelled affair with a hint of amiable danger thrown in.
What makes this case weird is that CCBN.com's cofounder, Jeffrey Parker, had a long and amiable relationship with Thomson.
But the energetic and amiable Coles sees himself with a fighting chance because his opponent, he says, is a divisive, out-of-touch, career politician.
What makes this case weird is that CCBN.com's cofounder Jeffrey Parker had a long and amiable relationship with Thomson (nyse: TOC - news - people ).
His mother was the property of a neighbor, Dr. Josiah McPherson, an amiable alcoholic who treated the infant Henson as something of a pet, bestowing upon him his own Christian name.
Though he was amiable, bounding to greet visitors with a beefy handshake, he lacked the common touch, and often talked in economic jargon.
That, too, ironically, is a fact that liberals ignored, caricaturing Reagan as an idiot, a simpleton, an "amiable dunce, " as Clark Clifford famously called him.
LDP, the amiable Mr Obuchi is widely seen as a useful compromise candidate for the party presidency which carries with it the job of prime minister.
Before anything else, Greenberg, a self-effacing, amiable schmoozer, has had to fix Oak Brook's formerly ugly franchisee relations, which had fallen into disrepair under predecessors Edward Rensi and Michael Quinlan.
Mr Palocci is big, amiable, whiskered, and like Lula speaks with a disarming lisp.
The tightly-controlled, sarcastic Bush may not be as nice as the amiable buffer of common lore, but he is a stronger leader.
The first crack at forming a coalition will therefore go to an amiable nonentity, Kjell Magne Bondevik, leader of the middle-of-the-road Christian People's Party, which made big gains.
In any event, as things stand, the amiable but tired Mr Abbas may be around for quite a while yet.
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Before the rise of Hugo Chavez, the Jews were a welcome part of a society known for its warm temperament and amiable disposition, free from the discrimination and anti-Semitic violence in many other countries.
Though amiable and bearing the Blair seal of approval, Mr David is hardly a household name, and lacks the charisma to stand up to Dafydd Wigley, Plaid Cymru's eloquent leader.
We are in an odd way a very snobbish nation but as Alan Bennett once said, snobbery is an amiable vice when it looks upwards, it's only when it looks downward it's horrible, if you look down on people because, if you admire in some way some style of eccentricity in other people there's nothing that wrong with it.
His big coup was to snare a weekly spot on a breakfast television programme, where he chatted and laughed with Joe Hockey, an amiable government minister.
The 62-year-old politician who was a professor of German for 13 years could be Mr. Hollande's best chance to foster amiable relations with Ms. Merkel.
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