(a.) Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you're sincere and smart and genuine and lovable that's what's going to come across in your videos and tweets."
(2) Although he could be lovable, charming, whimsical, encouraging, and deeply devoted to his family, he subjugated the adult women in his household and at least one son to exploitation and abuse, demanding (and receiving from his wife and step-daughter) almost total abnegation of self.
(3) The cathartic moment, in which the king realises he's OK and lovable just as he is, was wonderful for the film-makers to discover, and has been wonderful for worldwide audiences ever since (and the king doesn't die… he merely "croaks").
(4) Behind all its variety the paper always reflected David's own personality and interests: it was as lovable or hateable as a single human being.
(5) Inspired by chaos, Floyd would address the crew as often as the camera, would get palpably squiffy as programmes wore on, would indulge in any manner of derring-do (from playing rugby with Welshmen to shooting seals and eating puffins) and would be lovably madcap.
(6) Of course it is the hyperbolic silliness – the make-or-break trifle sponge, custard thefts, and prolonged ruminations over "The Crumb" – that makes The Great British Bake Off so lovable.
(7) It also offers a memento of, and a comment on, the more instantly lovable work finished decades before – of the rich and longstanding relationship of a master of still life with kitchen pots and pans.
(8) To feel lovable a child needs an enduring responsive relationship that conveys positive regard.
(9) Scott Pilgrim – and his peers in the likes of American Pie, Kick-Ass and Superbad – are presented as lovable losers, but compared to Marty they're creeps: self-absorbed, fixated on social hierarchy, only interested in niceness and decency if it helps them lure a girl into bed.
(10) The sinologist Ryan Mitchell notes that in a 1948 article, a veteran Chinese communist called Xi Zhongxun was quoted as saying “the most lovable qualities of us Communist party folks are devotion and sincerity”.
(11) To emphasise the point, the Batmobile steals every scene it's in, juggernauting across the Gotham rooftops in a spectacular chase that ends with Wayne earning a spanking from his lovable cockney butler Michael Caine.
(12) Turturro's Woody – still playing Woody Allen because, really, Woody Allen is the only role he knows how to play – loses a lot of the snippiness and self-absorption of the Woody-built Woody, and it's a small joy to witness him being so lovable, witty and wise – and so unneurotic.
(13) Author Rich Cohen wrote in the New York Times: “For as long as anyone remembers, following the Cubs has meant embracing futility, choosing the losers over the winners, seeing the romance in failure.” The “lovable losers” have suffered a legendary curse ever since a tavern owner, barred from a World Series game in 1945 because he was trying to bring in a malodorous goat , proclaimed that they would never win the title again.
(14) They may pretend to be interested in football, politics and cars, but deep down they are still dazzled by shiny things and are the same infuriatingly lovable little bundles of fun they've always been – bless 'em – and the double whammy of fine wines and Belgian chocolates will always open a lot of doors.
(15) Kehazaei’s mother, Goldone , told Guardian Australia her son was “gentle and loving”, a “very sensitive, harmless lovable person”.
(16) "Maybe certain ages, for sure, but the Muppets are so real and so lovable and colourful.
(17) Joey is a Friends spin-off in which Le Blanc's lovably dumb character from the long-running comedy hit relocates to Los Angeles to further his acting career.
(18) SH Sky Atlantic, 13 September Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cilla Two years after writer Jeff Pope and actor Sheridan Smith collaborated on a drama about the Great Train Robbery – bringing her an acting trophy from Bafta for her portrayal of robber’s wife Charmaine Biggs and him a mini-series nomination – the same team turn to a more lovable aspect of 1960s culture in this Cilla Black life story.
(19) The amount of music available in 2010 is so vast that it helps for an authoritative voice to guide through its maze, and 6 Music has tonnes of them, such as the razor-sharp Lauren Laverne and the lovable Gideon Coe.
(20) It appears likely that Adam Driver, better known for playing the lovably awkward Adam in TV series Girls, has beaten Michael Fassbender and Hugo Weaving to the role of a Darth Vader-esque villain .
Loveliness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being lovely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Melanie Wilson and Abigail Conway return with their cinema experience Every Minute Always and Coney offers the experience of The Loveliness Principle.
(2) Its villages, many of which are miles from any road, look like they’ve been painted by a 19th century Romantic artist whose vision was blurred by the tears in his eyes at the sheer loveliness of the scene.
(3) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian The point of this area of Dorset is its peerless loveliness.
(4) I have lived in the middle of the carnival route for 12 years now and going by my wholly unscientific observation, the carnival is one of the lovelier forms of cultural cross-pollination.
(5) Yet something we were acutely aware of was the individuals that made up the company, and I don't think I've met a lovelier bunch of people.
(6) "I met George on and off down the years and you couldn't meet a lovelier person.
(7) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
(8) We've also had Janet Street-Porter hiking up and down the land, wondering aloud, in a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger, godmotherish sort of way, why anyone would want to uncouple themself from the loveliness of the union.
(9) Tavira is slightly the victim of its own elegant loveliness: eating places abound, as do visitors.
(10) Wayne Koestenbaum explains in his book The Queen’s Throat how he loves Maria Callas above all because she made mistakes and “seemed to value expressivity over loveliness”.
(11) This is the English countryside in all its May-time loveliness – which the viewer actually watches months later, as they contemplate damp September – to be admired through lovingly filmed heads of cow parsley nodding under the weight of spring raindrops, or via long shots of fields of buttercups.
(12) "He's still a cheeky little sod, but he's definitely just a nicer, lovelier little boy and we're not walking on eggshells with him any more," says Michelle.
(13) Nowhere is this lovelier than the Paseo del Río (River Walk), cobble and flagstone paths that extend for 21 blocks (almost three miles) along the San Antonio river.
(14) 01492 818198, spaceboutique.co.uk ENGLAND Pier Hotel, Harwich, Essex You couldn't get a better picture of marine loveliness than the white and blue facade of this quayside hotel, built in the 1850s.
(15) It is scrawly coloured pencil drawings, funny questions, tousled hair and the loveliness of a sleeping toddler.
(16) 4: A final celebration of nature The loveliness of the trees and grass, the sky's blue clouds, give reality to a mythological scene.
(17) Stars with style Brad Pitt Born Shawnee, Oklahoma, US Age 41 Career highlights Johnny Suede, Fight Club, Ocean's 11 Career lowlights Seven Years in Tibet, Meet Joe Black Why he matters 'He combines the matinee idol looks of Gary Cooper with the sex symbol loveliness of Marilyn Monroe' Frank Gehry Born Toronto, Canada Age 76 Career highlights Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Walt Disney concert hall, Los Angeles Career lowlights Experience Music Project, Seattle Why he matters 'One of the most prominent contemporary American architects with his open, curvilinear, diverse and sometimes playful west coast style'.
(18) I hope I will do at some point.” This moment of reflection is all the lovelier for being entirely unsolicited.
(19) Mr Macron’s speech was full of French pride, with successive appeals to France’s scenic loveliness, great history and human achievements.
(20) We'd be completely astounded, but somehow the beauty of the moment would surpass even the loveliness of where we were and what we were doing."