The robot, like other consumer machines on show, has been designed to be personable and human.

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Mark Saunders, a royal biographer, said he had bumped into the new king and found him to be personable and relaxed.

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When it comes to training in social skills, staff are told to be "personable, approachable and able to hold a conversation".

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He has most regular contact with Malcolm's fourth-eldest son, Joel, who I also interviewed for the programme and found to be very personable and amiable.

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There are many tools you can use, but the best way is to be authentic and personable.

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From the moment you walk in the building, smile, be respectful, personable and professional at all times.

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But when it comes to Madison Avenue, when it comes to being interviewed on a regular basis by the ESPNs, the blogs and, you know, 24-hour sports world we live in, I think it certainly helps to be someone who is personable, who expresses himself well and who comes across as someone who cares not just about what they do on the field, but off the field as well.

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But the personable Mr Twigg would be odds-on to obtain a seat in the next Commons under virtually any alternative to the current electoral system.

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At the risk of sounding motherly, I will admit that she was always brilliant and personable, but constantly looked for reasons as to why she should be cubbyholed into learning only what educators deemed important along the way.

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