How To Use Bonhomie In A Sentence
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He did his best under difficult circumstances, but remained a tense, suspicious figure whose occasional attempts at cheery bonhomie always struck a false note with us.
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Now he is all smiles and bonhomie.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two friends share a joke and their bonhomie is touching.
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He nodded farewell, embracing in his bonhomie the waiting foremen, some of whom might themselves be site managers next year.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Sa bonhomie en faisait un compagnon agréable, malgré le fond de mélancolie neurasthénique que palliait la gaieté de son rire.
Tante Marie-Francoise
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The smile and bonhomie are increasingly unconvincing, the fury barely suppressed.
Times, Sunday Times
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So the good natured banter and dressing room style bonhomie had been shattered by a traitor in our midst.
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She is what you would call a boisterous child, overflowing with ebullition of spirits, _joie de vivre_, bonhomie, and all those attributes which cause people possessing them to make a noise.
Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel
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We were also too good at maintaining the usual façade of cheerful bonhomie, on the occasions where we did see them.
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Many have laboured, lost their footing and fallen in a bid to dramatise Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, a herculean tale of thwarted love, haunted hearts and man's capacity for bonhomie and inhumanity during the first world war.
Grace Dent: Birdsong
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They are friendly but there is a certain reserve, and false bonhomie is very low on the agenda.
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The chorus of sailors and passengers radiates sunny bonhomie, singing and dancing crisply.
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A kenspeckle figure in Scotland, Morrison networks effectively with bonhomie and chuckles.
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The format is familiar to students of programmes that are so bad they are almost good: his and hers presenters, faces set in a perpetual rictus of forced bonhomie, marooned on a couch in trash-television hell.
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Angus Lordie brings bonhomie and his dog, Cyril, to the residence; and Matthew and his father, Gordon, negotiate their familial roles.
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Overall, the evening had a genuine sense of bonhomie and hope.
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A friendly local crowd who speak English add to the jovial bonhomie and everyone seems to know your name.
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There's the cold-eyed, creepy stillness and bottled aggression of the ex-military types, the jovial Swanndri bonhomie of the hunters, a swash of piratical old-timers and some adenoidal gun dorks.
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Expect sharp writing, neat observational comedy and confident bonhomie from the artful young comic.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a casual bonhomie between the actors at rehearsals.
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He exudes bonhomie and can afford to.
Times, Sunday Times
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Signor Lanciani is a great man who combines being the top authority in his profession with a kindness and bonhomie which make even an ignoramus feel happy with him ” and with the frankest love for flanerie and “sport.”
Writer's Recollections
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There is after all nothing like a few days decent sunshine to unite this sun-starved nation in bonhomie.
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Good cheer and bonhomie make this a happy time for you.
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Behind Cummins's eccentric bonhomie is a determined and ambitious man.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sweeping back his unruly fringe on a breezy hotel terrace, the burly White House veteran still has the demeanour of a veteran political campaigner, steely and unyielding behind his folksy southern manners and slightly stilted bonhomie.
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Although he had been here less than 24 hours, Sam knew this jovial bonhomie on Howell's part was unnatural.
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The bonhomie and integration of the new squad were also most evident at the post-match meal.
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No one does matey bonhomie better than him.
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In contrast to the India-Pakistan matches in the past, the current series exuded bonhomie.
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Their brand of boisterous bonhomie and quirky humour is in short supply here.
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He has no desire to dispense blokey bonhomie from the stage.
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The warmth and bonhomie shared by Telugu film world's biggest stars was something that is to be seen to be believed.
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It is a country where acquaintances embrace when meeting and strangers are greeted with warmth, bonhomie, and a demitasse of rich coffee.
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He's a natural salesman, whose secret weapon is the sheer confidence and optimism that he exudes rather than backslapping bonhomie.
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‘We'll send someone out on Monday ’, she said in her cheerful bonhomie.
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In a rare show of bonhomie and good humour, he talked about life as a writer and indicated that this might be his last book.
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Even so, a spirit of close cooperation and bonhomie was generated, contributing much to the success of the Workshop.
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The easy bonhomie that he excels in was gone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even so, a spirit of close cooperation and bonhomie was generated, contributing much to the success of the Workshop.
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The 300-year-old inn exudes bohemian bonhomie and is one of the best loved in Puerto Rico.
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The celebration dinner at the Bear Hotel was the usual blend of conviviality, bonhomie and generosity that has characterised the club's activities over the years.
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Christmas greetings were heard in many languages, kisses were exchanged on both cheeks and a general feeling of bonhomie was present among the crowd.
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The relentless, frictionless bonhomie can be a little grating.
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It is another opportunity to promote sales and to entertain customers, and bonhomie is the order of the day.
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He was an odd mixture of awkwardness and complacency, a desire to be courteous struggling with a desire to show his independence; he had no ease of manner, no bonhomie, but a gruff and ugly kind of jocosity, which I am sure was not really natural to him, but was his protest against the possibility of my considering him to be shy.
The Silent Isle
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Beer and whisky flowed freely, amid much back-slapping and bonhomie.
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There is always a sense of artificiality, of distance maintained, of forced bonhomie.
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Instead he plays Arthur as a terrifying yet avuncular figure, apt to switch from jovial bonhomie to murderous rage with lightning speed.
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There was none of that false bonhomie that can be so grating.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behind Cummins's eccentric bonhomie is a determined and ambitious man.
Times, Sunday Times
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_ We see him much the same as he was when he delighted the Parisians in 1830, -- "_Avec sa grand casaque à gros boutons, son large pantalon flottant, ses souliers blancs comme le rests, son visage enfariné, sa tête couverte d'un serre-tête noir ... le véritable Pierrot avec sa bonhomie naïve ... ses joies d'enfant, et ses chagrins d'un effet si comique_" -- and also so pathetic.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891
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When parties sit down to hammer out a deal, we focus on the hard issues, confronting points that have been brushed aside to preserve the illusion of backslapping bonhomie among the players.
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It's all part of Nige the showman's lumpy mix of music hall, jazz club Dvorák on harmonica, anyone? and rock concert, all chivvied along with lashings of bonhomie but set within the context of fiercely disciplined music-making.
Nigel Kennedy/ Orchestra of Life; Sir Charles Mackerras Memorial Concert; Jonas Kaufmann
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Revelry and bonhomie everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
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The front-of-house man may have been underworked, but he oozed bonhomie and competence without ever threatening to become over-attentive.
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A big, hearty, round-shouldered guy full of bonhomie, Lechelt is never more bearish than when he talks about seafood.
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She could no longer keep up a pretense of bonhomie: his tone was irritating her.
GALILEE
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Instead he plays Arthur as a terrifying yet avuncular figure, apt to switch from jovial bonhomie to murderous rage with lightning speed.
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The general spirit of bonhomie and celebration lifts even curmudgeons like me over the worst stretches of inanity.
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The atmosphere is one of bonhomie and hundreds of onlookers, unmindful of the heavy downpour, savour every moment of this unique ritual.
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Behind Cummins's eccentric bonhomie is a determined and ambitious man.
Times, Sunday Times
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The atmosphere is laid back, as is the owner Jose, who moves around greeting everyone in his trademark overshirt, surrounded by an air of bonhomie.
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But behind the bonhomie and poems of friendship, China's relationship with its impoverished southeastern neighbor and erstwhile ally formerly known as Burma is deeply troubled.
