" Yet the affability remains in what she said is still "a quaint village.
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In Afghanistan the affability of the locals threatens his love of East Africans.
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It's a lifestyle, a vibe, a way of being that exudes affability and sweetness.
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Carson is still polling at respectable levels, and he has retained his personal affability.
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When credibility goes, sometimes a spokesperson can make up for some of that with affability.
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The Dallas Stars started to display some affability toward the Nashville Predators, but quickly corrected themselves. .
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The makeover, combined with Le Pen's political agility and down-to-earth affability, has been effective.
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Daisy's fortune comes from cotton, and Hoke, with ruthless affability, keeps reminding her that she's rich.
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The press referred to his 'energetic fervor,' 'astringent intellect,' 'peppery prose,' 'acumen,' and 'affability,' all apt descriptions.
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Still, the friction cuts against the image of affability and reason that Kraft, 75, likes to project.
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But his quiet affability and good looks have helped him to win over plenty of habitual Republican voters.
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As the Eagle himself, Taron Egerton (so great in Kingsman) is all mouth-agape wonder and doofy affability.
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But because Slate isn't a huge celebrity and hasn't really attained mainstream success, her affability seems uniquely authentic.
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It would be mistake for anyone to try to predict her presidential chances based on her perceived affability.
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His self-effacing style and encyclopedic grasp of popular culture contribute to a profile of warmth and affability.
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So far, the current front-runner has offered little substance in his defense, beyond Obama stardust and affability.
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Korean first baseman Dae-Ho Lee is contributing in a platoon role, and stealing hearts with his affability.
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Mr. Damon's regular-guy affability carries the movie through its expository phase, which is a lot of fun.
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But while Nat has inevitably seen severe horrors, he's also been protected by Sam's affability and Sam's father's apathy.
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He is still working to improve his English but has the charm and affability of a star, Duva said.
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The show's mixture of Disney-Channel affability and bland goodwill sometimes works, as long as your expectations are sufficiently lowered.
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Despite the potential boundary blurring that can come with being a Twitch personality, viewers still expect streamers to perform affability.
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His latest collaboration is with the rising country singer-songwriter Luke Combs, who brings a somberness to his Everyman affability.
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Mr. Maher's Sam, with his surface affability barely masking a soul in quiet torment, has grown much richer and more detailed.
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I've continued to try to bring a bit of warmth and affability to a character who is shadowy, villainous and even treacherous.
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Just as Reese Witherspoon's perkiness scores a few points in Tracy's favor, so does Broderick's affability make it hard to hate Jim.
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Just as Reese Witherspoon's perkiness scores a few points in Tracy's favor, so does Broderick's affability make it hard to hate Jim.
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He's sardonic and irreverent in a way that's different from Tony Stark or Scott Lang, because it's missing Stark and Lang's charming affability.
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That so many different parties, many of them natural adversaries, could convene under one roof is a testament to Vinnie's glad-handing affability.
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He is popular among his peers for an off-court affability that provided a striking contrast from his often ornery on-court demeanor.
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That kind of affability is exactly what Krasinski, who's probably still most famous for playing Jim Halpert on The Office, is known for.
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Yet behind the loud affability, the flights on Concorde, the Jaguars and Rolls Royces and the glamorous wives, was a stationmaster's son from Suffolk.
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Mr. Pierce, as the many fans of "Frasier" and his recent stage performances will know, is an actor of great skill and effortless affability.
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Mr. Daniels is fun to watch, but his Midwestern affability and natural courtliness don't match up at all with the book's description of O'Neill.
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They added that his affability was crucial to helping viewers navigate the opening minutes of "Living With Yourself," which focuses on the pitiable, rundown Old Miles.
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"Weren't you in here a week ago?" a bartender asked, serving affability with a Brooklyn Lager (Subway Inn's beer has never cost more than six dollars).
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Residents in states with higher levels of income inequality, for example, tend to score higher on measures of competitiveness, and lower on measures of affability and generosity.
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Echoing the laissez-faire affability that buttresses the brands of Lyft and Airbnb, Common and WeLive flaunt the opportunity to foster relationships through communal kitchens and suites.
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For all his dad-next-door affability, Pruitt has been more secretive and security-conscious than previous administrators, in ways that have left career staffers feeling alienated.
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Throughout the film, the principal performers behave with the mix of affability and reserve they might display when meeting a group of people for the first time.
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Although skeptical about much of what has lately counted as restaurant excellence, Wells hasn't quite drawn his own boundary line—one defined, perhaps, by affability and chaos.
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Frustration with the establishment is so pronounced that affability seems less a factor than a candidate's anti-establishment bona fides and a penchant for blunt, even brutal, statements.
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On stage, Biden showed the same pluses (experience and affability) and the same negatives (a lack of incisiveness and a tendency to meander) as he has throughout this cycle.
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The lack of affability only gets worse when Robert confides in a friend that he's worried about money, considering he's about to lose half of everything in this divorce.
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Bytes • Bachman's partnership with Big Head continues to develop on Bachman taking advantage of Big Head's dim affability and Big Head inadvertently becoming a tougher negotiator than he seems.
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Mahoney wrote that Casey's natural ability on camera has given "affability and eloquence" to her husband, telling stories about him and making him appear more relatable to the public.
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"It's such a beautiful venue that it's strangely intimate," he said, exuding thoughtful affability while eating a late-morning bowl of oatmeal at a TriBeCa hotel restaurant last week.
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In these scenes, Ngo's Chum sheds his middle-aged mantle of strained affability to become a raw, quivering soul whose raison d'être is to exist, no matter the cost.
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Young, working class, Christian, openly gay and driven by liberal values, she famously described herself as a "tough old bird" but she has an affability that charms most who meet her.
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Fallon's jovial nature lends itself well when he celebrates his guests — like his viral interview with Cardi B — and that affability was, perhaps, not the best fit for someone like Trump.
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Warmbier's alma mater was packed Thursday, as the community came to terms with its sorrow over his death -- and celebrated what Meis described as his rare combination of intelligence, affability and sincerity.
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When Mr. Reagan floundered for a while in his 1984 re-election campaign, Mr. Ailes coached him in ways to appear sharper in a televised debate and to display his innate affability.
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Now he's back in Congress and becoming better known for his outspoken advocacy for fiscal conservatism, delivered in frank and accessible terms, and an easy affability with voters from across the spectrum.
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It's important not to overstate Markle's independence: She's not, say, keeping her job (or her blog), and after her marriage she may well be subsumed into the anodyne affability of the wider royal family.
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Part of that has to do with his prolific nature (he released 127 singles during those two and a half decades) but Snoop's infectious affability surely plays a role in his continued success, too.
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Since his first race in 1976 he had relied on a mix of affability and political pragmatism to find success — 13 victories in 13 statewide races — in one of the country's most lightly populated states.
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When Harry talks about his life—as he did, with great affability, one evening last August, at a corner table in a dark Los Angeles restaurant—the diminutive, auburn-haired Nelson listens with quiet seriousness.
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Ms. Benanti's grand comic timing and Mr. Levi's radiant affability outpace the dampening effects of broadcast, as does Jane Krakowski and Gavin Creel's dance duet, which was broadcast a few weeks ago at the Tony Awards.
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Now in his 80s, the British playwright of stage-to-screen hits like "The History Boys" and "The Lady in the Van" has become, to his dismay, beloved, a national monument to coziness and harmless affability.
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From the moment he enters, wreathed in stage smoke, Mr. Dauchan radiates that natural, magnetic affability you associate with successful stand-up comics and talk-show hosts, but without any of the underlying hostility or aggression.
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Before long, it became clear why he had joined the students in conversation: to hit on Holden, who is tall and broad-shouldered and has big, protruding ears that add to an aura of youthful affability.
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Pictures of a handsome Kaine in his youth prompted feedback from goo-goo eyed millennials on social media, and light-hearted jokes about his father figured simplicity promised a commitment to a firm belief in his affability.
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At 6:30, our server, whose affability pleasantly undermined his twee polka-dot bow tie, moved us beneath a sprawling mimosa tree to a table for two draped in white linen, and turned up the heat lamp.
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But Carson's attack on him at the start of Saturday's debate for engaging in "Washington ethics" by which "you do what you need to do in order to win" could hurt, especially given the retired neurosurgeon's affability.
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"Dry Powder," directed at a brisk clip by Mr. Kail, on a chic, pulsating blue platform designed by Rachel Hauck, becomes more engrossing when we meet Jeff, played with a nice measure of affability by Mr. De Silva.
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With his money and clout and affability, Mr. Rindge must have imagined he could hold off the invaders indefinitely, but upon his death in 1905, the task of safeguarding his family's retreat fell to his redoubtable wife, May.
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And while Mr. Corzine was a socially awkward mumbler who agonized over decisions, Mr. Murphy, who considered pursuing a career in musical theater, oozes affability, remembers the tiniest details about people he has met and quickly owns up to his missteps.
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He had the requisite good looks, shy affability and clean-cut image to appeal to advertisers from the very start, but he also had a series of naff haircuts and mannerisms which were something of a gift to uninspired television impressionists.
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Indeed, the very affability of Dr. Jackson's approach when it comes to his current presidential patient is perhaps his greatest disqualification, followed closely by his lack of relevant management experience and the apparent absence of a normal pre-nomination personnel vetting.
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In person Lincoln is closer to the sweetly charming wielder of romantic poster boards in "Love Actually" — an earnest conversationalist with an easygoing affability that belies his status as the center of one of the world's biggest pop culture franchises.
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Fortunately for the world in general, she has taken it into her head, that condescension is the most distinguishing virtue of high life; so that the same pride of family which renders others imperious, is with her the motive of affability.
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That might have been less a commentary on the affability of Jeff Hornacek, Derek Fisher and Mike Woodson than it was a statement about the stultifying environment around a franchise bearing the obtrusive weight of its owner, James L. Dolan.
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There's nothing here to rival the thing with Bill Murray in "Zombieland" — after all this time, it still feels like a spoiler to say much about it — but the performers commit to the silliness in a spirit of well-compensated affability.
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These celebrities built their fortunes on disclosure and affability in the first place, offering opinions and "behind-the-scenes" details for free, all over the internet, and it was simply not reasonable to expect people to suddenly shell out — no matter the amount.
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But his affability was outnumbered 5 to 1: by the Rolling Stones' raunch and cynical sass, by Mr. Dylan's dire visions, by the Who's fury and self-inquisition, by Mr. Young's pragmatic bluntness and by Mr. Waters's sullen, broad-spectrum opposition to authority.
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The Oprah flashpoint underscored how a lot of the groups are preparing quietly for Harris; in private, these activists and donors are eager to talk about Harris's affability and charisma; her record as attorney general of California; how popular she'd be in say, South Carolina.
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By the time Jane Austen was writing, though, the word was already starting to rouse suspicion: When Mr. Collins, in "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), extols the "affability and condescension" of Lady Catherine, readers were reminded that this clergyman was at once snobbish and obsequious.
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Biden will almost certainly face questions about the two furors that have recently dogged his candidacy: his earlier support for the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment, which he has now reversed; and his praise for the affability of two Southern segregationists of an earlier era, the late Sens.
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St. Hubertus, which is run by Mr. Bottura's friend, the star chef Norbert Niederkofler, is like Osteria Francescana, one of the few restaurants in the world to be awarded three Michelin stars — yet it's the informal affability of the staff that feels most familiar to Mr. Bottura.
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From the show's opening harmonies, A Bronx Tale projects a combination of hometown pride and winsome affability — one it maintains even as its protagonist, Calogero, grows into adulthood amid a backdrop of organized crime, violence, and escalating racial clashes between his primarily immigrant neighborhood and the Bronx's local black population.
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In addition to an imitable smile and affability that serves him in recruiting, Swinney — whose given name is William but has been known as Dabo ("DAH-bo") since he was an infant and his older brother tried to call him "that boy" to their parents — also has a sharp savvy as an in-game manager that allowed him to motivate his players to pull off an upset they will always remember.
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Other social assets of this type are amenableness, affability, hospitality and approachableness.
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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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Socially, the Duke was a great success, his transparent enjoyment of the game and affability with the players, press and public making him popular.Alban George Moyes, With the M.C.C. in Australia 1962–63, A Critical Story of the Tour, The Sportsmans Book Club, pp xiv–xv, p. 165 (1965).
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He was described as a charismatic mullá (religious leader) with "affability, combined with dignity and bearing" and he became a notable person within his hometown. Mírzá Músá, who met him in 1846, said: "whoever was intimately associated with him was seized with an insatiable admiration for the charm of the youth".
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Despite Khalil's affection and affability, the intransigence of the people increased. Thus, later with the permission of Gangohi, Khalil resigned and returned. In 1295 AH, a letter from Moulvi Shamsuddin, Chief Justice of Bhawalpur, was sent to Moulana Muhammad Ya'qub. The letter was a request for a highly qualified teacher.
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Strong's Greek Concordance 5544. chréstotés > Strong's #5544: Kindness is goodness in action, sweetness of disposition, > gentleness in dealing with others, benevolence, kindness, affability. The > word describes the ability to act for the welfare of those taxing your > patience. The Holy Spirit removes abrasive qualities from the character of > one under His control.
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Bonfire was a prolific hiker in Southern California for many years. He has completed the Hundred Peaks Section list 25 times.Twenty-Fifth List Completion - Hundred Peaks Section He was noted by the Los Angeles Times for his "affability and flexibility" as a hike leader. He currently resides in western Nevada with his wife.
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Samuel Pepys, who recorded the incident in the great Diary, remarked that it was a pity that Henley retaliated, for otherwise the judges might have dealt with Paulet, of whom Pepys had a poor opinion, as he deserved.Diary of Samuel Pepys 29 November 1666 Despite his faults, his charm and affability made him numerous friends.
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In 1762, James and Catherine Murray met the writer James Boswell. In Boswell's words, James was a "most amiable man, [who] has very good sense, great knowledge of the world, and easy politeness of manners". He described Catherine as "very beautiful and, what is more, very agreeable, being possessed of the most engaging affability".
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The short term of his generalate did not allow him to do much. Yet, his affability and strength of character, not giving in to threat nor allowing himself or others to go for retaliatory moves, somehow – unknowingly – prepared his Jesuit companions to adopt the right attitude for what would happen in 1773, the suppression of the Society of Jesus.
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The title is drawn from what Robert Whittington in 1520 wrote of More: > More is a man of an angel's wit and singular learning. I know not his > fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness and affability? > And, as time requireth, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes, and sometime > of as sad gravity.
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Notwithstanding the meekness and affability of his upright and moderate character, he was modest to a fault (he had the classical sculptures in the Vatican provided with mass-produced fig leaves)"Feb 28 1759 - Clement XIII permits bible translations", Jesuit Restoration 1814 and generous with his extensive private fortune. He also permitted vernacular translations of the Bible in Catholic countries.
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In the spring of 1916, in connection with the offensive against Italy, he was entrusted with the command of the XX. Corps, whose affections the heir- presumptive to the throne won by his affability and friendliness. The offensive, after a successful start, soon came to a standstill. Shortly afterwards, Charles went to the eastern front as commander of an army operating against the Russians and Romanians.
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Van de Velde had two audiences with Pope Pius IX and reiterated his health problems. The pope showed the "greatest affability." If Bishop Van de Velde was not to be allowed to resign the bishopric completely, he pleaded for a transfer. One year from the time of his return to Chicago (at the end of 1852) he was installed as bishop in the warm- weather state of Mississippi.
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The theater had a very limited budget and some of its performers struggled to speak English. They also hosted Floyd Dell's troupe and others from Greenwich Village. The Center had an air of radical affability and cosmopolitanism. Historian Laurence Veysey described the Center, with its unrestricted discussions on social subjects and wide representation of nationalities, as potentially the country's least inhibited and most stimulating small venue at the time.
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In any event, Duggan had enjoyed a reputation, confirmed by his swift ecclesiastical promotion, for intelligence, affability, and eloquence. Yet after he returned from the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1866 he began to change: moodiness, erratic behavior, signs of stress. When Duggan traveled abroad to relax and recover, several of his priests concerned for the bishop's stability took the opportunity to ask the Vatican to investigate.
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Richard Smith, another of his contemporaries, was much impressed by his great humility, temperance, affability and contempt of riches. Smith described him as one of the ‘greatest benefactors of our times’ who ruled his household well. His probity was demonstrated when on 15 July 1618 his brother Thomas was freed from prison (where he had been held for slandering the Countess of Exeter) and handed over to Arthur's custody.
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Rogerson, p. 75. In his career, he scored over 190 in an innings five times and twice scored centuries in each innings of a match. Although Rhodes's primary function varied between bowler and batsman, he recorded 16 doubles to establish a record for any cricketer. When Rhodes was involved in matches, Cardus believed that "he was not a man given to affability", showing annoyance on the field and being critical of the performances of others.
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Rowlatt decided to take up the law and was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1886. He joined the Oxford circuit but made slow progress, devilling for Robert Finlay. When William Danckwerts took silk in 1900, the post of junior counsel to the Inland Revenue fell vacant and Finlay recommended Rowlatt. Then, in 1905 Finlay, now Attorney-General, gave him the post of Treasury devil, a role in which Rowlatt excelled with his energy and affability.
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Laura Borden, Lady Borden (née Bond; November 26, 1861 – September 7, 1940) was the wife of Sir Robert Laird Borden who was the eighth Prime Minister of Canada. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and married Borden in September 1889. She served as president of the Local Council of Women of Halifax until her resignation in 1901. In recognition of her affability and graciousness, the Progressive Conservative Party presented her with an automobile to recognize her contributions to the Canadian identity.
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He was noted for kindness and affability, which made him a great success in each of his diplomatic missions. Plunkett was the British Minister in Tokyo, 1884–87,The first British Ambassador to Japan was appointed in 1905. Before 1905, the senior British diplomat had different titles: (a) Consul-General and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, which is a rank just below Ambassador. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George while in Tokyo.
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Hiller’s affability was one of his strongest assets; he made innumerable friends, such as Charles-Valentin AlkanRonald Smith, "Alkan: The Enigma" Vol. 1, and his very extensive correspondence with all the leading musicians in Europe, still only partly published, is an important source for the musical history of his era. Yet another asset was his very beautiful wife Antonka, by profession a singer, whom he married in Italy in 1840, and who made their home a magnet for the intelligentsia wherever they settled.
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Due to his admiration for wrestlers Antonino Rocca and Miguel Pérez, Colón became a member at the gym they trained at in New York, practicing wrestling moves and cleaning the place occasionally to pay his dues. His dedication and affability helped him gain the respect of his peers, as well as the occasional wrestling match. His first bout occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 16, 1966, when he wrestled Bobo Brazil. Colon was paid US$15.00 for his participation in his first match.
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After her marriage to Prince Charming, Cinderella spends her days in their luxurious palace, keeping his affability with all the people around her, but her two stepsisters, always envious of her, manage to get her away from the palace. The Prince falls into a state of despair, but Bonaventura promises him to go in search of the girl and bring her back. After fighting bitter enemies such as Barbariccia and the Ogre, helped by the loyal Cecè and by the Little Fairy he will finally succeed.
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As such, he was among the founders of a private high school in Iași, to which he donated a group of buildings. While active in Junimea, his renowned affability and venerable bearing earned him the nickname "Papa Culiano". He was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1889. Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site He helped found the Iași astronomical observatory for the use of students and teachers, and published textbooks on mathematics and geodesy.
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Following Philodemus of Gadara's work on "Self seeking Affability" and Ariston's characters, evidence of acquaintance with the genre is present, however popularity of the portrait over the generalized stock figures in increasing. This may explain the gap of time from the beginning of the Common Era to the 16th century marked by an absence of character sketching. The second field is the study of nomenclature. As the Character rose as a literary genre, many terms were coined in attempt to place labels on the new subject.
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It proved useless, however, to combat a practice which had been legalised by time and authority. Richard Hooker, who knew the bishop well, commends his affability of manners, regularity of life, and singular learning. He added that, Later, however, in his History,p. 359 in describing the Mayor, Robert Midwynter, Hooker says that, After governing the diocese for about nine and a half years, he died, according to his epitaph, on 15 April 1570, aged 60, and was buried in the choir of his cathedral.
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He stated: The 1920 election was the first in which women could vote nationwide, as well as the first to be covered on the radio. Led by Albert Lasker, the Harding campaign executed a broad-based advertising campaign that used modern advertising techniques for the first time in a presidential campaign. Using newsreels, motion pictures, sound recordings, billboard posters, newspapers, magazines, and other media, Lasker emphasized and enhanced Harding's patriotism and affability. Five thousand speakers were trained by advertiser Harry New and sent across the country to speak for Harding.
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Initially declining the waiter's multiple offers to have his jacket taken away for cleaning, Hassett acquiesced and while taking off his jacket, noticed a spot on his trousers. He then silently pointed to the spot, removed his trousers and handed them to the waiter, before continuing to eat his meal in his underpants.Perry (2000), pp. 184–185. Aside from the humorous side of his personality, Hassett was also known for his diplomatic skills as a leader and his affability, particularly his ability to endear himself to hosts and public while representing Australia overseas.
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Throughout his life Mark Finch was boyishly charming and often masked his private depression with public bonhomie. His gently camp affectation would occasionally dissolve into tantrum socially but such outbursts were not part of his professional life, which was characterised by lively industry, incisive wit and a passionate affability. He delighted in wordplay and inventive imagery; he never stopped writing absurd narratives, and sharp observations of his surroundings. Such commentaries were sent to friends in small packages with brief covering notes or topped and tailed with the greetings and codas of more formal letters.
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After a failed production of La Cosaque, she began travelling, appearing at the Menus-Plaisirs, the Eldorado and the Alcazar d'Été but never regaining the immense success of her debut roles. She returned to the Gymnase in mother- figure roles in works such as Le Bourgeon, Le Secret de Polichinelle and L'Âge difficile, to which she brought "une tendresse, une douceur et une bonhomie touchantes" ("a tenderness, a softness and a touching affability") before retiring to her native Burgundy. She is buried at Montmartre. Her lover was the journalist and author Albert Millaud.
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His affability endeared him to artists outside the Beatles' circle. One friend described him as "a rock and roll Frankie Howerd", and he gained a reputation in the music scene for rolling the best joints in London. His friendship with Peter Frampton led to the latter playing guitar on Harrison's sessions with Apple artist Doris Troy, as well as his first post-Beatles solo album, the 1970 triple LP All Things Must Pass. Through Doran, Harrison became friends with comedian "Legs" Larry Smith, the subject of his 1975 song "His Name Is Legs".
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Wadham was known for his hospitality and he maintained a fine household at Merifield, described by Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) as "an inn at all times, a court at Christmas". Wadham and his wife were suspected of recusancy. In 1608 the privy council ordered a stay of proceedings against both Wadham and his wife on a charge of recusancy. John Carpenter, Rector of Branscombe, dedicated to him his literary work "Contemplations", for the Institution of Children in the Christian Religion (1601), noting his "gentle affability with all persons" and his generosity.
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IGN called Zaheer an "interesting" character, intrigued by his genuine respect for Air Nomad culture and his affability towards Korra during their conversation in the Spirit World. Mike Hoffman praised the effort made to portray Zaheer as a "particularly human" villain, citing the fact that he (as well as Amon and Kuvira) made "valid arguments" for their actions, as well as his loving relationship with P'Li. IGN also praised the final fight scene between Korra and Zaheer in "Venom of the Red Lotus", listing it as one of the best fight scenes of 2014 and lauding its "distinct superhero feel".
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"HMS Renown" under the command of Fisher, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1898 Fisher was chosen by Prime Minister Lord Salisbury as British naval delegate to the First Hague Peace Convention in 1899. The peace conference had been called by Russia to agree to limits on armaments, but the British position was to reject any proposal which might restrict use of the navy. Fisher's style was to say little in formal meetings, but to lobby determinedly at all informal gatherings. 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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In the Assembly, Mead won a reputation as a champion of worker's rights, including passage of a "full crew" law for freight trains, a law requiring workers to be paid every two weeks instead of every month, and an act mandating improved safety measures in train engine cabs. Among his successes were laws to improve the conditions of women and children in factories and enhancements to the state's worker's compensation laws. Mead's affability and power of persuasion marked him as an effective legislator despite the fact that he was a Democrat in a body controlled by Republicans.
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3, p. 95. Martin Luther, in a conciliatory letter to Leo, himself testified to Leo's universal reputation for morality: The final report of the Venetian ambassador Marino Giorgi supports Hume's assessment of affability, and testifies to the range of Leo's talents. Bearing the date of March 1517 it indicates some of his predominant characteristics: Leo is the fifth of the six popes who are unfavorably profiled by historian Barbara Tuchman in The March of Folly, and who are accused by her of precipitating the Protestant Reformation. Tuchman describes Leo as a cultured – if religiously devout – hedonist.
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It was written of him: > "His Irish affability and his flair for making his constituents feel that he > was one of themselves, and above all the shrewdness which enabled him to > reconcile the more or less conflicting demands of his electorate and the > Liberal faction to which he belonged in Parliament all combined to keep him > in Parliament until his death". When he died suddenly in Gilbert Street, Latrobe in the midst of an election campaign, there was great consternation. A town was in mourning for the: "genial kind old gentleman who had represented East Devon for nineteen years." Never before had Latrobe seen such a funeral.
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For example, he wrote: "Nobody who has not actually watched statesmen dealing with each other can have any real idea of the immense part played in human affairs by such unavowable and often unrecognisable causes as lassitude, affability, personal affection or dislike, misunderstanding, deafness or incomplete command of a foreign language, vanity, social engagements, interruptions and momentary health."Harold Nicolson, The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity, 1812-1822 (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1946), 19. To prevent disconnection and apathy from their own state, many foreign services mandate their employees to return to their home countries in between period serving abroad.
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282-83 Although the official position of the British government on "The Roman Question" was neutrality and nonintervention, Severn often took diplomatic action that his superiors viewed as exceeding his mandate as Consul. On several occasions, such as when he used his office to liberate Italian political prisoners in 1864, he was rebuked by the Foreign Office.Scott, Letters and Memoirs, p. 51 His knowledge of the Italian language and his affability and good humor, however, often helped in mediating between the papal regime and the British government, and he was able on many occasions to offer advice and protection for British visitors who found themselves in awkward scrapes.
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Portrait of Louisa Maria by François de Troy, about 1705 Louisa was the only full sibling of Prince James Francis Edward, the 'Old Pretender', to survive infancy, and was four years younger than her brother.Addington, A. C., The Royal House of Stuart (London, 1969, third edition 1976) The two were brought up together in France. Louisa's tutor was an English Roman Catholic priest, Father Constable, who taught her Latin, history, and religion. She also had a governess, the Countess of Middleton, wife of the Jacobite peer Charles, 2nd Earl of Middleton. James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, another Jacobite peer living in France, praised the child's natural affability.
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He received Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, as his governor and was tutored by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux, the great French preacher and orator, without positive result: It was said that when Louis was an adult, he could pass a whole day simply tapping his cane against his foot in an armchair. Nonetheless, his generosity, affability, and liberality gave him great popularity in Paris and with the French people in general. Louis was one of six legitimate children of his parents. The others all died in early childhood; the second longest-lived, Marie Thérèse of France, died at the age of five when Louis was 11.
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Richard O'Reilly (1787–1818) was his successor in the primacy. Having an independent fortune, he was the first Catholic prelate since the Revolution who was able to live in a manner becoming his station. By his gentleness and affability he succeeded in quieting the dissensions which had distracted the diocese during the time of his predecessor and was thenceforward known as the "Angel of Peace". In 1793, he laid the foundation- stone of Saint Peter's Church in Drogheda, which was to serve as his pro- cathedral, one of the first Catholic churches to be built within the walls of a town in Ireland since the Reformation.
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Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections, Wyoming governorship, 1966 Several newspapers in the American West referred to him as Wyoming's "cowboy governor". Hansen's obituary contends that he "brought both the down-to-earth pragmatism of a lifelong cattle rancher and the affability of a small-town politician to Cheyenne and then to Washington, and he was on friendly and familiar terms throughout his career, not only with those on both sides of the political aisle, but also with elevator attendants, cafeteria workers, and staff members throughout the Capitol who called him friend." As Governor, he increased appropriations for state programs to combat alcoholism and mental illness by more than 50 percent.
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Over the college he presided with universal approbation, and engaged the affections of the students by his courteous demeanour and affability, mixed with the firmness necessary for the preservation of discipline. In his apartments here, he frequently cheered the latter days of his old friend Dr. Johnson, whom he survived but a few years; dying at his prebendal house at Gloucester, 13 January 1789, aged 82. He was interred in Gloucester Cathedral, where a monument was erected, with an inscription, which celebrates his ingenuity, learning, eloquence, piety, and benevolence. Dr. Adams married Miss Sarah Hunt, by whom he left a daughter, married, in 1788, to B. Hyatt, esq.
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DC Duncan Lennox comes to Sun Hill from Epsom prison and his motives for wanting a transfer to the East End are at first a mystery to his new colleagues in CID. A bulky Glaswegian with an ironic sense of humour, he quickly makes his presence felt, particularly with the women in the station, whom he treats with a combination of appreciative chivalry and old-fashioned sexism. Duncan manages to combine an air of profound laziness with sudden bursts of enthusiasm If he senses the chance of a good arrest, he pursues a case with dogged determination. There is nothing he enjoys more than arresting a villain, and he thoroughly annoys his victims by treating them with immense affability.
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Nothing remarkable occurred under Clement IX's short administration beyond the temporary adjustment of the disputes between the Holy See and those prelates of the Gallican Church who had refused to join in condemning the writings of Jansen. He was mediator during the 1668 peace of Aachen, in the wars of succession between France, Spain, England and the Netherlands. He was popular with the people of Rome, not so much for his erudition and application to business, as for his extreme charity and his affability towards great and small. He increased the goodwill of his subjects by buying off the monopolist who had secured the "macinato", or privilege of selling grain, and as his predecessor had collected the money for the purpose, Clement IX had the decree published in the name of Alexander VII.
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When his father died (shortly before April 1644) Wilmot inherited the title of Viscount Wilmot of Athlone and much of his father's political standing in Ireland. In April he was, jointly with Thomas Dillon, 4th Viscount Dillon, made Lord President of Connaught, a post that his late father had held jointly with the late Viscount Ranelagh since 1630 ; this appointment laid the foundations for his becoming a major political figure in both England and Ireland. All recognised that Wilmot was popular with the soldiers he commanded, due to a "mixture of courage, enterprise, and boozy affability" Clarendon famously, if waspishly, noted "He was a man proud and ambitious, and incapable of being contented; an orderly officer in marches and governing his troops. He drank hard, and had a great power over all who did so, which was a great people".
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He was influenced by Antonio Mancini, a lifelong supporter, especially in his genre depictions of the activities of the lower classes of Naples. He also painted portraits.Grove Encyclopedia of Art Gaetano, like other Neapolitan painters such as Morelli, rebelled from an academic temperament. He was described as Irascible, diffident, and prone the jealousy, he was not one to gain friends among his colleague painters, with the exception of Antonio Mancini... and this lack of affability forced him to have to sell briskly to be able to sustain himself. He did get commissions in the last decade of the 19th century to decorate the Caffè Gambrinus in Naples, the ceiling (1895) of the Garibaldi Communal theater at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, and the ceiling (1897–1898) of the refurbished Palazzo della Borsa in Naples where he painted allegories of work and history.
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" Deborah Evans Price writes for Billboard how Paisley "succeeds on every level from the clever songwriting to his signature tasty guitar licks and personality-packed vocals." Sarah Rodman writes for The Boston Globe saying how Paisley continues to show "his clever wit... his skillful guitar playing, curiosity about human interaction, and his nice guy affability." Brian Mansfield writes for USA Today how "Paisley's first album that doesn't sound more ambitious than his last, Moonshine occasionally forces its cleverness", whilst he maintains "the vision to look beyond his tailgate and dream of a better world." Jeremy Winograd writes for Slant Magazine how the music is "composed of one part willfully idiotic pandering and two parts loose, fun, and rocking party country" that's "mostly upbeat, feel-good summertime album that largely minimizes Paisley's tendency toward hokey power balladry.
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The Prince of Orange pressed by the crowd during the 1830 Revolution William II enjoyed considerable popularity in what is now Belgium (then the Southern Netherlands), as well as in parts of the rest of the Netherlands for his affability and moderation, and in 1830, on the outbreak of the Belgian revolution, he did his utmost in Brussels as a peace broker, to bring about a settlement based on administrative autonomy for the southern provinces, under the House of Orange- Nassau. His father then rejected the terms of accommodation that the son had proposed without further consultation; afterwards, relations with his father were once again tense. In April 1831, William II was sent by his father to be the military leader of the failed Ten Days' Campaign in order to recover what would become Belgium. They were driven back due to French intervention on the side of the rebels.
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Richard Graves was born at his father's rectory in Kilfannan, near Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, 1 October 1763, the youngest son of Rev. James Graves (1710–1783), "an accurate and well-read scholar and to a mind imbued with classical tastes and acquirements... a conversation enlivened by a natural vivacity and a pointed but inoffensive wit (who) added so much Christian affability and kindness as to render him a general favourite in his own rank of life, and (procuring) him the esteem and affection of his parishioners of every denomination (and whose) society was much prized and proportionately sought for". James Graves had one brother, Richard, High Sheriff of Counties Limerick and Waterford; and one sister, Abigail, who married firstly Edward Southwell (1703-1736), son William Southwell; and, after his death a grandson of Sir William Scroggs. Richard Graves' mother, Jane Ryder (1719–1810), was the daughter of Rev.
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No-one, in fact, ever took the practice of private virtues farther than Arnaud de Laporte which was the best guarantee possible one could have for his public probity in office. Also, the esteem in which he was held by those who came to know him and even those who knew him only slightly was always accompanied by a genuine sentiment of affection. His affability and good nature had won him all hearts back in Brest. During a long and grave illness in 1780 while posted there, the sailors of the port would gather daily at the door of the Intendancy eager for any scrap of news as to how he was faring, and thirty years after his death, when an oldtimer from Brest was asked if he had known Arnaud de Laporte the codger could not bring himself to answer, so overcome was he with tears of emotion.
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As a student of Darius Milhaud at the Conservatoire de Paris, Manfred Kelkel "always felt a sincere admiration and almost filial recognition for his former teacher, even if, aesthetically speaking, he followed a divergent path.". From 1969 onwards, the composer resumed his university studies, obtaining a doctoral degree and a State doctorate of music and musicology, "with works that have since become authoritative in their fields", from his study À la recherche de la musique polynésienne traditionnelle, in ethnomusicology, to State doctorate on lyrical music at the beginning of the 20th century (Naturalisme, vérisme et réalisme dans l'opéra). His postgraduate thesis, dedicated to the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin (Scriabine, sa vie, l'ésotérisme et le langage musical dans son œuvre), is a defining moment in his career. In his memories, Jacques Viret evokes a man "of perfect simplicity, modesty and affability", making him meet Marina Scriabin, daughter of the composer of the Mysterium, of which the Acte préalable presents a twelve-tone tuning which carried him with enthusiasm.
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She taught herself a great deal, but she studied alone; the presence of a reader would have disconcerted her very much. There were, however, occasions on which the Princess, generally so intractable, became all at once affable and condescending, and manifested the most communicative good-nature; this would happen during a storm; so great was her alarm on such an occasion that she then approached the most humble, and would ask them a thousand obliging questions; a flash of lightning made her squeeze their hands; a peal of thunder would drive her to embrace them, but with the return of the calm, the Princess resumed her stiffness, her reserve, and her repellent air, and passed all by without taking the slightest notice of any one, until a fresh storm restored to her at once her dread and her affability." The life of the sisters in the last years of the reign of the father was described as follows: "Louis XV. saw very little of his family. He came every morning by a private staircase into the apartment of Madame Adelaide.
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Emery attained his greatest popularity on Nashville Now, with his rich voice and easy affability with guests making the show a national phenomenon. He would converse with a wide range of country music stars from all eras, and also used a Muppet-like 'co-host,' "Shotgun Red," during several seasons. From the mid-1960s until the early 1990s (except for several years in the 1960s when hosted by country singer Bobby Lord and a two- year period between 1970 and 1972), Emery also hosted a weekday morning show, "Opry Almanac," (later dubbed "The Ralph Emery Show") on WSM television (now WSMV), which, until the early 1980s, was a sister property of WSM radio. The program, which featured an in-studio band of local session musicians and aspiring singers (among them a teenaged Lorrie Morgan, daughter of Emery's longtime friend, Grand Ole Opry star George Morgan) along with news and weather updates and in-studio live commercials, became the highest-rated local morning television program in the U.S. for some years in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Nidhanpur inscription of Bhaskaravarman Bhaskaravarman praises himself in his Nidhanpur copper-plate inscription, saying that "he has revealed the light of the Arya religion by dispelling the accumulated darkness of Kali age, by making a judicious application of his revenues; who has equalled the prowess of the whole ring of his feudatories by the strength of his own arm, who has derived many a way of enjoyment for his hereditary subjects whose loyal devotion to him was augmented by his steadiness, modesty and affability, who is adorned with a wonderful ornament of splendid fame made of the flowery words of praise variously composed by hundreds of kings vanquished by him in battle; whose virtuous activities, like those of Sivi, were applied in making gifts for the benefit of others; whose powers, as of a second preceptor of the Gods (Brihaspati), was recognised by others on account of his skill in devising and applying the means of politics that appear in suitable moments; whose own conduct was adorned by learning, valour, patience, prowess and good actions".
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While he was at Poona for education and even during the long period he worked there as Honorary bench magistrate, he had occasion to be associated with the high officials and the leading and liberal- minded statesman of Poona, all of whom were ever pleased with the nobility and the affability of his mind and heart. The modesty and the gentility of his disposition and behavior had always won for him the good opinions of the successive Governors of Bombay, the commissioners and the Political agents. Mr. W. D. Sheppard the political agent and the Collector of Poona wrote a letter addressing Shrimant Babasaheb to his father His Highness Shankarrao Raosaheb: Raja Ragunathrao received two coronation medals as Yuvaraja, the first at the time of Coronation Darbar of King Edward VII in 1903 and the second at the time of coronation darbar of Imperial King George V in 1911. In June 1903 Shrimant Babasaheb was honoured with a Silver Medal at the hands of Lord Northcote, the then Governor of Bombay.
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As a military leader, he led military campaigns expanding the dynastic territory to the largest extent by conquering and sometimes destroying Central Asian kingdoms. This turned around in his late years: the Qing empire began to decline with corruption and wastefulness in his court and a stagnating civil society. A British valet who accompanied his diplomat master to the Qing court in 1793 described the emperor: > The Emperor is about five feet ten inches in height, and of a slender but > elegant form; his complexion is comparatively fair, though his eyes are > dark; his nose is rather aquiline, and the whole of his countenance presents > a perfect regularity of feature, which, by no means, announce the great age > he is said to have attained; his person is attracting, and his deportment > accompanied by an affability, which, without lessening the dignity of the > prince, evinces the amiable character of the man. His dress consisted of a > loose robe of yellow silk, a cap of black velvet with a red ball on the top, > and adorned with a peacock's feather, which is the peculiar distinction of > mandarins of the first class.
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Costume design for Figaro (1807 production) :Count Almaviva, Governor of Andalusia :Countess Rosine, his wife :Figaro, the Count's valet and major-domo; engaged to Suzanne :Suzanne, the Countess' maid; engaged to Figaro :Marceline, the housekeeper; in love with Figaro, unknowingly Figaro's mother :Antonio, gardener of the castle; uncle of Suzanne, father of Fanchette :Fanchette, daughter of Antonio, girlfriend to many :Chérubin, the Count's page, the Countess' godson; in love with every woman :Bartholo, a doctor from Seville; unknowingly Figaro's father :Bazile, music master to the Countess :Don Guzman Brid'oison, a judge. :Doublemain, clerk to Don Guzman Brid'oison :Gripe-Soleil, a shepherd lad :Pedrillo, the Count's huntsman :An usher :A shepherdess :An alguazil :A magistrate :Servants, valets, peasants, and huntsmen Beaumarchais wrote detailed notes on the characters, printed in the first published text of the play, issued in 1785.Wood, pp. 219–23 The author prescribed that Figaro must be played without any suggestion of caricature; the Count with great dignity yet with grace and affability; the Countess with restrained tenderness; Suzanne as intelligent and lively but without brazen gaiety; Chérubin as a charming young scamp, diffident only in the presence of the Countess.
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