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Onstage, Wood is unhurried, an amiable man who, despite being 46, has the countenance of a churchgoing grandfather who still starches his Sunday suit.—
Ismail Muhammad,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025 -
Jerry Eisenberg, the amiable animator known for his contributions to The Jetsons, The Peter Potamus Show, Wacky Races, Fangface, Spider-Man cartoons, Scooby-Doo movies and so much more, has died.—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Secret Societies and the Fight for Black Freedom Dating to the pre-Revolutionary era, mutual aid and benevolent societies supported Black Americans and the fight for civil rights and justice.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Feb. 2025
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Steves, with his impeccable recommendations, sensible budgeting options, and gently corny prose style, has served as the benevolent fairy godfather on more than one trip for me.—
Constance Grady,
Vox,
19 Feb. 2025
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When Reacher, who refuses to be addressed by his first name, Jack, saunters into the fictional town of Margrave, Georgia, the show portrays his masculinity as exceedingly powerful yet good-natured; something to be obeyed but also preserved and exalted.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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Nearly left for a loss of words at Obama’s jab, Edwards warned the political icon to temper his heckling, albeit in a good-natured manner.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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The genial duo stripped away even more of the armor on its latest album, On a Trip, released at the end of January.—
Elias Leight,
Billboard,
25 Feb. 2025
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The genial informality of the gathering, however, was another way in which Gunn and Safran are setting DC Studios apart from Marvel — and how just about every other major studio manages information about their marquee movie franchises.—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
24 Feb. 2025
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The then–relatively unknown Hackman played Buck Barrow, the easygoing older brother to Warren Beatty’s bank robber Clyde.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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For years, consumers outside Spain dismissed Cava as an easygoing, mass-market sparkling wine rather than a serious, age-worthy alternative to Champagne.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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The big picture: While the meeting on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was cordial, the peacekeepers deployment was about the only significant plan the two world leaders agreed on during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office.—
Rebecca Falconer,
Axios,
24 Feb. 2025
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Club officials had a ‘cordial’ meeting with Spain’s refereeing body to listen to the VAR audio from their 1-0 defeat to Espanyol.—
Ali Rampling,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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Lemmon’s the affable, inoffensive host for the evening.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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To his friend Bergoglio—a fellow-Jesuit, cerebral and affable, sixty-eight and healthy?—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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Highly personable and ingratiating but with a tough core, Walters withstood critiques about the softness of her interrogatory style with celebrities and sometimes major political figures as well.—
Carmel Dagan,
Variety,
30 Dec. 2022
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Smith’s tone was self-conscious and ingratiating—at times, obsequious.—
Sam Adler-Bell,
The New Republic,
7 Mar. 2022
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“Unsoldierly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsoldierly. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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