amiability

How To Use amiability In A Sentence

• But he went on going to see them, as though he did not notice their unamiability. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
• Love is a terrible thing -- quite different from amiability, which is sometimes confused with it. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder
• His disarming amiability and jocular charm were irresistible, but his art was immediately compelling on its own terms, and largely responsible for fueling all the interest.
• I wish to acquaint your love in Christ that the very zealous brethren who have been commissioned by your reverence to act for you in this good work have won praise for all the clergy by the amiability of their manners; for by their individual modesty and conciliatoriness they have shewn the sound condition of all. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
• I hate all that false amiability that goes on at parties.
• Nevertheless, his wealth and amiability gave him standing, he was chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Pembroke College was refounded in his honour.
• My amiability, which is in many cases the result of indifference; my indulgency, which is sincere enough, and is due to the fact that I see clearly how unjust men are to one another; my conscientious habits, which afford me real pleasure, and my infinite capacity for enduring ennui, attributable perhaps to my having been so well inoculated by ennui during my youth that it has never taken since, are all to be explained by the circle in which I lived, and the profound impressions which I received. Recollections of My Youth
• But it is with sincere amiability that the imperial writer, who was indeed little used to be ironical, adds that the lively respect and affection of the junior had often "gladdened" him. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
• A demonic light flashed behind the grotesque mask of amiability.
• That the situation could have been allowed to reach such a point in Brazil, the country of "amiability" and "non-violence in politics" should prompt any leaders not yet entirely blinded by the "battle against subversion" to try to save their country's reputation. Torture in Brazil