| But affability, like intelligence, can mask a mean and meager spirit as well as the absence of a sense of proportion. |
| She just has an affability about her and a niceness about her that permeates everything she does. |
| He was a brilliant attorney with a self-effacing kindness and affability unlike any I have ever seen. |
| Mid-way through her answer, her neatly measured affability gives way to a decided prickliness. |
| Perhaps his ability to weather the ebb and flow of public fickleness lies in his sheer affability and generosity of spirit. |
| From that point on, his curious mix of affability, crustiness and wit had the audience hanging on every sung or spoken word. |
