| But affability, like intelligence, can mask a mean and meager spirit as well as the absence of a sense of proportion. |
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| Perhaps his ability to weather the ebb and flow of public fickleness lies in his sheer affability and generosity of spirit. |
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| She just has an affability about her and a niceness about her that permeates everything she does. |
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| Mid-way through her answer, her neatly measured affability gives way to a decided prickliness. |
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| His affability and lack of duplicity did not set him in good stead for his dealings with the sleazier side of 1980s politics. |
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| Parker will report on what's in the bottle, courageously unconcerned by the reputation on the label or by the affability of the wine-maker. |
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| As Phil the agent, he made the unlikely combination of ruthlessness and affability seem plausible. |
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| He just trundled on, his public school affability masking a lack of clear thought. |
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| O'Neill, despite his apparent affability and a tendency to circumlocution, is a tough little nut. |
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| Some were seated with patrician affability at windows with dramatic swagged curtains. |
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| He was a brilliant attorney with a self-effacing kindness and affability unlike any I have ever seen. |
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| From that point on, his curious mix of affability, crustiness and wit had the audience hanging on every sung or spoken word. |
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| I grew up with Raúl, and from a tender age I admired his affability and sincerity. |
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| We wait that it is of its affability and that it finds the house of its dreams. |
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| Once received his product it has 7 days to be able to ask for the return of the same if this not outside his affability. |
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| Once again, I wish to thank you for your kindness and for your friendship and, if I may say so, also for your affability as a person. |
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| Dignified affability is the becomingness of superiority, which while it does not remove the line of distinction, does not render it painfully visible. |
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| Besides Gillette, car makers, confectioners and banks have all rushed to capitalise on Mr Federer's success, looks and affability. |
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| In other words, it seems that the regulators were rather shown a certain affability with the sector. |
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| At Palexpo all his colleagues are unanimous in emphasizing his kindness, affability and dedication. |
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| They were hustlers, raconteurs, and had an affability about them that suggested they would make excellent dinner companions. |
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| People still argue about whether Mr Medvedev's affability was sincere, or a stunt. The frost started biting over Libya. |
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| His sunny affability slips only twice once when asked about the lynching his grandfather stopped. |
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| From jazz to opera, American or Québec songs, you will fall for her sublime voice, vibrant intensity, natural affability and freshness. |
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| With this step we contribute to the politically claimed citizen affability. |
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| Good night, gentlemen' said Dr Soares with his customary affability. |
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| He impressed many by his affability and style, combined with a serious determination to press the British case with everyone he met. |
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| The wisenheimer coaxing those light laughs is Adam's best friend, Kyle, played and sometimes bellowed by a shaggy Seth Rogen with his familiar mix of affability, innocence and vulgarity. |
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| If trade trumps terrorism, then Kashmiris would indeed have reason to cheer. All blow awayThe current affability, however, could yet blow away as quickly as bonfire smoke in a Srinagar sky. |
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| Mr Hart, for all his burly, hippy affability, was a cyber-revolutionary, with a snappy list of the effects he expected e-books to have:Books prices plummet. |
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| With a ready smile, Mr Portman exudes both affability and competence. |
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| When he speaks about Lula, the Brazilian head of state, whom he greeted on receiving the National Award for Human Rights, he does it without any particular affability. |
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| Surface graces are undoubtedly important, such as affability, courtesy, and willingness to do a favour, but personality is an assemblage of qualities inside a person that makes him what he is as distinct from other people. |
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| It was a beautiful family time. Our Sisters were very pleased and so were we because we always appreciate the gracious hospitality and Salesian affability that makes us feel so at home. |
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| He is one of the greatest mathematicians of the century, but what strikes one most about Belgian-born Pierre Deligne is his modesty and affability. |
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| Do not allow charm or affability to cloud your decision. |
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| The teachers have a solid experience in the teaching of individual courses and are remarkable for their affability, culture and are motivated to obtain the results expected by students. |
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| A hub of high-society affability devoted to the pleasures of conversation and wit, the salon was also an ideal place for sharing, discussing and expressing the arts, music, plays, poetry, literature? |
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