affability

• “-- Gothic affability is the mode you think proper to adopt, the condescension of a Baron, not the civility of a liberal man (47).”

  Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'

• “But they exude a certain affability on-screen and off.”

  The Ferrett Is An Idiot

• “The words came as easily from his lips as if his practice in affability had been of the very longest.”

  The Filigree Ball

• “We must now consider the friendliness which is called affability, and the opposite vices which are flattery and quarreling.”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “Therefore affability, which is what we mean by friendship, is a special virtue.”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “He was a silent, rather sullen man, and you felt that his affability was a duty that he imposed upon himself Christianly; he was by nature reserved and even morose.”

  The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands

• “Our affability is the armor that protects the inner sensitive personality.”

  The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers

• “When afterwards, in the course of our gregarious walk, I found myself for half an hour, not perhaps without another manoeuvre, at the great man's side, the result of his affability was a still livelier desire that he should not remain in ignorance of the peculiar justice I had done him.”

  Embarrassments

• “When afterwards, in the course of our gregarious walk, I found myself for half an hour, not perhaps without another manoeuvre, at the great man's side, the result of his affability was a still livelier desire that he shouldn't remain in ignorance of the peculiar justice I had done him.”

  The Figure in the Carpet

• “His affability was a welcome change from the stridency of Eliot Spitzer, yet Paterson quickly proved an unreliable steward.”

  NY Post: News

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