bonhomous

Georges Briguet, the bonhomous owner of Le Périgord, who greeted and seated guests by name nightly at that classic haute cuisine French restaurant in Manhattan for a half-century, died on July 26 in Montauk, N.Y.

You don’t necessarily go to a meyhane for great food; a bonhomous atmosphere matters more.

In this simple sentiment we can find hope, as we can in the efforts of those cleaning up the debris and ash in bonhomous, broom-wielding posses.

He was then totally at home as the bonhomous but mountingly indignant Mr Hardcastle in a revival of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer at the Young Vic in 1972.

I am not a great fan of the festive period – I hate the colour scheme, I hate the waste, I hate the mass-media implication that anyone not gathered round a glistening and bonhomous board with 70 of their dearest and loveliest is somehow an irredeemable failure, I don't want to send cards to people with whom I would otherwise never communicate, I don't think recycling the cards afterwards is really the point – why not simply not send them in the first place?