| There's some lovely writing here, though, especially when the prose takes flight in likably offbeat, even cinematic, sweeps. |
| This can make her seem likably roguish and honest – which of us has not lost our hearts to something that our heads know to be meritless trash, or sustained contradictory opinions on a complicated issue? |
| Luhning, in contrast, starts out as likably mild-mannered and awkward, so that the final frustrated explosion of his repressed feelings is unexpected and shocking. |
| Sometimes the paintings verge on trippy high-school Magritte emulations, but more often, they are likably bizarre. |
| Before I can recommend the games to anyone, and I do, I usually have to mention that it will test your threshold for the likably bizarre. |
| Sometimes narrator Nora at first comes off as a likably upfront, if slightly self-satisfied Parisian gallery owner. |
