affability

While jaunty affability is Danson’s trademark, Fey is a withering social critic whose deeply pessimistic outlook on race, gender and other social-justice issues has been known to incite controversy.

Both offered Liverman an early showcase for his affable presence onstage and the elasticity of his instrument.

But Fallon has it, that natural affability that is an absolute prerequisite for talk-show hosting success.

They were hustlers, raconteurs, and had an affability about them that suggested they would make excellent dinner companions.

Joffe also possesses a key skill beyond the reach of programming: social affability.

Whereas Lessard had acted the martinet with MacRae, he took another tack and became the very essence of affability toward me.

She saw at once that he resented her leisurely way and her attempt at affability, and she hastened to apologize.

There is nothing insipid or affected, nothing of that simpering affability that his successors brought into vogue.

By his affability, correctness, and fairness in all his work he has succeeded marvellously in attaching every one to himself.

But the captain had him by the arm and was dancing him about the sidewalk, showing more affability than was his wont.