(1) Eye-to-eye, the bumbling bonhomie appeared to be a lacquer of likability over a living obelisk of corporate power.
(2) Big names frighten them on their doorsteps, oozing bogus bonhomie.
(3) Tall, heavy-set, with an astonishing bouffant as solid, glossy and black as polished coal, he exudes the hearty bonhomie of the rugby player he once was.
(4) While the contest has at times been rancorous, there is now a degree of bonhomie among the contenders – an esprit de corps that arises from having shared stages, green rooms and cars non-stop for nearly four months.
(5) In Richard Moore’s book The Bolt Supremacy he describes the odd cocktail of bonhomie and saccharine that surrounded the sprinter’s swaggering conquest of London 2012.
(6) At the lower end of expectations, the Iranians will spread bonhomie and make a date for serious nuclear negotiations in the coming weeks, involving the cumbersome format of the past few years that has kept the international community more or less on the same page, but with little real progress.
(7) The White House correspondents’ dinner is a fixture of the Washington scene, a spring event at which the cream of political journalism shares bonhomie, fine food and comedy roasting with the politicians it reports on – including the president.
(8) Rajapaksa's folksy, gruff bonhomie and his canny direction of development funds to the countryside has paid dividends at successive polls.
(9) The bonhomie is also to the fore, of course, because England supporters seldom visualise this team winning the World Cup.
(10) He liked most people and treated them all – important, notorious and plain folks – with a cheerful bonhomie that usually fell short of fawning.
(11) There may have been just one breach in the bonhomie when the calibre of the squad was discussed.
(12) Now nobody can enjoy, everybody must win, so there is a change in the philosophy.” Meanwhile, Ranieri gave an amusing insight into the lovable blend of bonhomie and rigour he has cultivated at Leicester.
(13) Corden’s skits and songs create event television and illuminate his guests, performers themselves, in a better light than any semi-scripted sofa bonhomie.
(14) Talking with the orchestra's players a few weeks ago as they rehearsed in Caracas, I heard the usual youthful bonhomie, and as they boarded UK-bound flights on Saturday, Facebook was humming with posts – principal viola player Ismel Campos still typing as he got on the plane.
(15) He said he needed the money to build the wall.” Such bonhomie is a far cry from the perception of America-first boorishness.
(16) The laughter takes so long to subside this time, I wonder if Hague's famous bonhomie isn't sometimes a tactic for buying himself time.
(17) It was a cathinone: a drug in the amphetamine family that occupied a sweet spot between the bonhomie of ecstasy and the brittle buzz of cocaine.
(18) But it doesn't take long to shake him out of his bonhomie.
(19) Many in Ireland, used to the populist bonhomie of working-class male politicians such as Bertie Ahern, have always found her cool, even haughty.
(20) Others [at the BBC] would then unleash their hitherto withheld views and, suddenly, the bonhomie was gone and the club became a cockpit."
Diplomacy
Definition:
(n.) The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.
(n.) Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.
(n.) The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Had he learned diplomacy, his career might have suffered less.
(2) The index, now in its third year, was compiled by the PR firm Portland Communications in conjunction with the University of Southern California school of public diplomacy.
(3) And the larger point is this: it is diplomacy.. that can best solve disputes like this in the 21st century.
(4) The pope, whose foray into diplomacy helped spur negotiations between the US and Cuba , is expected to address the topic in a speech before the UN in New York in September.
(5) High stakes is a terrible cliche, but this is about as high stakes as diplomacy gets.
(6) There was diplomacy, all right, but it was diplomacy aimed at licensing war.
(7) "My definition of diplomacy is to create space for dialogue," he said.
(8) In this manner the society succeeded in attracting many thousands of workers to its meetings and worked without openly alienating employers, trade unions, the government, or the medical profession--a remarkable feat of diplomacy.
(9) 'Azerbaijan is turning into a dictatorship – we shouldn't fall for its caviar diplomacy' Read more The crowded courtroom was growing increasing stifling as the air-conditioner could not cope with mid-August heat.
(10) His message was echoed by Albert Royo, of Diplocat, the Catalan body responsible for public diplomacy.
(11) It was a turning point in history, and was a written text promoting peace and diplomacy.
(12) The history of the Gujarat riots and the RSS connection is not going to simplify diplomacy anywhere in the Islamic world.
(13) Israel has repeatedly threatened to take military action if diplomacy fails to contain Iran’s nuclear aspirations.
(14) Both sides, wearied by decades of fruitless diplomacy, cautioned that an initial meeting – scheduled for the "next week or so" in Washington, according to Kerry – will not automatically lead to productive negotiations.
(15) For Merkel, the meeting is the start of a week of whirlwind diplomacy that will see her meeting heads of state in Tallin, Prague and Warsaw before hosting first the leaders of the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, and then the presidents of Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia at Schloss Meseberg, a baroque castle outside Berlin.
(16) Rightly, Miliband gives diplomacy more time, while those in his party, like Ben Bradshaw on these pages on Thursday, who support military intervention cite their leader to make the case.
(17) In the first comments to come out of Damascus since the accord to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons, brokered by Russia and the US, was announced, Ali Haidar, paid fulsome tribute to its longstanding ally, praising "the achievement of the Russian diplomacy and the Russian leadership".
(18) Some will argue that Turnbull needed to avoid megaphone diplomacy – that is, direct public criticism of Trump’s refugee bans – to preserve the US deal to take refugees off Nauru and Manus Island.
(19) They have learned from this and dedicate a lot of effort toward diplomacy and government cooperation.
(20) The entire Middle East will benefit if this is the new normal.” Hossein Rassam, a London-based Iranian analyst, said the lifting of sanctions would bring two years of intensive diplomacy to fruition.