bonhommie

• His perceptions are literal, tenacious, epileptic —his understanding voracious of facts, and equally communicative of them—and he proceeds to Pour out all as plain   As downright Shippen or as old Montaigne without either the virulence of the one or the bonhommie of the other. —  The Spirit of the Age
• 77 Diderot's candour, simplicity, happy bonhommie, and sincerity in real interests raised him habitually above the pettiness, the bustling malice, the vain self-consciousness, the personalities that infest all literary and social cliques. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
• "Such freshness of character, so much bonhommie--a little odd sometimes." —  The Bertrams
• They come and go without knowing, or caring to know, anything about the people around them, except when a feast-day comes, when they are always ready enough to visit their houses, dance with the beauties, and consume their suppers The most noticeable traits in the Philippine Indians appear to be their hospitality, good-nature, and bonhommie which very many of them have. —  Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850
• Frederick Tennyson, though left in a state of bewilderment by Browning's poetry, found the writer of the poetry "a man of infinite learning, jest and bonhommie, and moreover a sterling heart that reverbs no hollowness. —  Robert Browning

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