Rather than having the jaunty wit of a Wally Schirra, the affable magnetism of a John Glenn or the flinty swagger of a Chuck Yeager, Neil Armstrong came across as nothing more than the earnest, no-nonsense engineer he actually was.
Martin Freeman, compact and affable, is a snug fit in the difficult role of Bilbo.
The affable Quinn is a life insurance salesman who would be paid by the life settlement intermediary.
Franchisees are always griping about something, and the affable Gutman had a knack for easing the friction.
But the affable Huckabee made a name for himself with an easygoing style.
Mr Ryan is an affable fellow with a history of cutting cross-party deals.
After the game, the affable Davis cracked a smile when he found a crowd of reporters waiting at his locker.
His challenger, Mr Reinfeldt, had relative youth on his side (41 to Mr Persson's 57), an affable demeanour and a canny ability to hear and understand voters' concerns.
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Or, if you want an expert to guide you, and the current is running strong that day, you can be pulled by one of the dive staff such as the knowledgeable, affable Trina to a coral and fish dense spot.
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For a city dweller it sounds almost idyllic, though Rawles -- a gently spoken and affable man -- insists it's a lot of hard work.
The affable Ganesan is also a former entrepreneur who founded Trigo Technologies, which was acquired by IBM in 2004.
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The affable Hansgeorg Hofmann, a Dresdner banker, sat on the executive committee in London and hence presumably reported to Mr Robertson.
"In fact I've gone out of my way time and again to point out that he's a perfectly affable fellow, and he's not stupid and he's not mean, " she says.
Hill, an affable environmental scientist with a slight drawl and a ruddy complexion, met Rogers in 1992, while selling boiled peanuts at the side of the road outside Gainesville to pay for his education at a local community college.
He has hired a new, affable spokesman and is courting foreign journalists for the first time.
Rockwell is among the most lively and affable of current stars: a good thing, too, given the amount of time he spends onscreen, and the loneliness with which he has to contend.
Voters must now choose between Mr. Sarkozy, the incumbent who says he has the experience and energy to steer France clear of Europe's sovereign debt crisis, and Mr. Hollande, an affable career politician who promises a more regal, conciliatory air.
Dolan, 63, is an upbeat, affable defender of Catholic orthodoxy, and a well-known religious figure in the United States.
This is why it was no surprise to find ourselves seated next to the affable and slightly owlish Didier Ludot on a balmy summer night.
Just as Britain's affable Tony Blair took care to keep a foul-mouthed master of dark arts, Alastair Campbell, at his side, so is it the calling of Mr Emanuel to bludgeon underlings at the White House and former colleagues in Congress into obeying his master's commandments.
The specialists are affable, knowledgeable, and motivating--a month later, I was still "breathwalking" to work and following the interval-training routine I was prescribed.
Locals and "fromaways" share the pools, moving along in an affable conga line, so that everyone gets a shot at the prime salmon lies.
But taking the reigns at ABC will provide a host of new challenges for the affable Brit.
Mr Hunt, who used to look after media and sport, is a free-market apostle and an affable sort with the rare ability to persuade people to tolerate policies with which they strongly disagree.
Justin Timberlake has built a career as a singer and an actor by being genuinely affable.
For all queries, Patty Berglund was a resource, a sunny carrier of sociocultural pollen, an affable bee.
Indeed a behaviourist who observed Sinclair recognised him to be affable and polite, even during police interviews.
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An affable, athletic man, Hartmann, now 60, calmly agreed that a new phase in managing Veba has begun.
What the affable MEP failed to mention was what happened in the Barnsley Council elections a few weeks later.
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