affability

Gary was a lawyer whose affability never offended off the court, but on the court I found him pushy.

"There is an affability about him, but he's also not afraid of stirring the pot. He's very authentic and has a big personality without necessarily dominating the space."

She's one of pop's most poised stars, choosing her words carefully and brushing away personal questions with a practised affability.

There was a playfulness and affability that was lacking this year, and was instead replaced by tension, haughtiness, indifference and downright rudeness — a sentiment that I heard from multiple camp mates, both old and new.

And Johnson, who devotes “two to four hours a week” to his project, has just the right mix of passion and affability to nudge labels in the right direction.