How To Use Congenial In A Sentence
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Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.
The Scarlet Letter
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an uncongenial atmosphere
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In fact, the British flacks have used their facade of congeniality and cooperation to spread some of the most blatant falsifications of the campaign.
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The beams of wit, the lively sallies of humour, and the interchange of good fellowship, eradiated the glass in its circulation, and doubly enhanced its contents; and in amusements so truly congenial with the disposition of the Hon.
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
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They usually proved both intelligent and congenial.
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It therefore came to light that Mr. Jobbles had found that his clerical position was hardly compatible with a seat at a lay board, and he retired to the more congenial duties of a comfortable prebendal stall at Westminster.
The Three Clerks
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Whatever be our inward frame, we are apt to perceive a wonderful congeniality in the world without us.
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Only a congenial outsider would remain with so unpromising a figure.
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It's a congenial kind of place.
Times, Sunday Times
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So he tried to forget about it, and make up his mind that he could find plenty of congenial work looking after his traps and assisting Abner's wife during the winter, with occasional trips across the sound, and possibly a chance to pull an oar in the surfboat, should luck favor him.
Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast
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Suffering and death and all ugliness were forgotten in congenial and healthful companionship.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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The hard helotism to which the tremendous range of the sciences condemns every scholar today is a main reason why those with a fuller, richer, profounder disposition no longer find a congenial education and congenial educators.
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Even straight men, so often skittish and easily threatened, found his aw-shucks persona and mildly sarcastic, I'm-in-on-the-joke attitude congenial.
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I fear that the tone of this platform would be far more congenial to the French revolutionaries than the American.
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But as I was crowded for space, and wished the other parts of my body to remain a blank page for a poem I was then composing — at least, what untattooed parts might remain — I did not trouble myself with the odd inches; nor, indeed, should inches at all enter into a congenial admeasurement of the whale.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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MASON: Well, I think that this kind of congeniality and ease and sweetness and softness.
CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2005
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Both the city and the work were congenial to him.
Times, Sunday Times
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He found his first job - as a bank clerk - uncongenial, and the armed services always beckoned.
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My lifelong entanglement with pay phones dates me; when I was young they were just there, a given, often as stubborn and uncongenial as the curbstone underfoot.
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When, on the other hand, the composition of the deliquescent particles is congenial to the tongue, and disposes the parts according to their nature, this remedial power in them is called sweet.
Timaeus
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an uncongenial soil
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The mock-up behind the move was to make the Act more congenial to the economic development needs of Zambia.
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A Miss Congeniality Beauty Pageant will be held on 30 September at the Waterford Crystal Social Centre, Cork Road, from 8 till late.
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And then it should probably work at what it can do and finds congenial.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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She liked Hogg and loved Leigh Hunt, but Peacock was uncongenial to her.
Biography in the DNB
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He was seen as an effective leader, despite being taciturn and uncongenial.
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“His wife makes a lovely chatelaine, and Oom Hendrik has assumed the congenial functions of cellarer and chaplain.”
The Five of Hearts
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Resolutely accentualist in his outlook, he argued in a series of ‘Letters,’ that trisyllabic feet, whether dactylic or anapaestic, are fully congenial to English, ‘in spite of the Antijacobin’.
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He had emerged, married an uncongenial and rather vulgar Swiss girl, and obtained a professorship at Cooper's Hill.
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Which is weird because Carter seems like such a happy guy, a congenial man with a great sense of humor.
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The social upheavals and conflicts, the end of tsarist-style deference, and in particular the flow of peasants into the towns had meant that in public people were uncongenial and at home led narrow lives.
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This mechanical and repetitive work was certainly uncongenial, but so in a different way was the company that Dickens was obliged to keep.
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What they call congeniality of tastes ain't always it.
Options
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But now such as justly deserve the names of complacencies and joys are wholly refined from their contraries, and are immixed with neither vexation, remorse, nor repentance; and their good is congenial to the mind and truly mental and genuine, and not superinduced.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Enemies have disappeared and new ones - many once former allies and even congenial friends - have taken their places.
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The summers out here are not congenial to the average North European.
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There will continue to be resistance to the idea that book reviewers should seek the more congenial, if also more narrowly focused, space afforded by the quarterlies (or, for that matter, literary blogs).
Book Reviewing
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London has the option of trying to find a more congenial partner with which to merge.
Times, Sunday Times
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This phenomenon actually adds greatly to the congenial atmosphere of an agency and encourages friendship and good relations at all levels.
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Parliamentary secretaries (unless they are called Adonis) exist to sign letters, reply to debates at uncongenial hours, and read briefs approved by their elders if not betters.
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It has a congenial, boho atmosphere, with an emphasis on seasonal organic food.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has been my anxious wish to do my duty to my country, though politics never were congenial to me and while my dear Husband lived I left as much as I could to him.
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Drawing inspiration from the congeniality of his surroundings, one Thomas Cuddemour drew up a list in a Dartmouth tavern of local men he would kill once the January 1400 plotters had succeeded in despatching Henry IV.
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The congenial old All Black to whom he had been chatting was suddenly a different man.
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The effect of this looseness in the laws is to encourage hasty, incon - siderate marriages, and to make escape from an uncongenial partner so easy that the obligation to cultivate forbearance, and to acquire mutual adaptation, which may not at first exist, is wholly overlooked.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
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MASON: Well, I think this kind of congeniality and ease and sweetness and softness, most people get involved in the competitive nature in this kind of business and there is a turbulent intensity in most people.
CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2005
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It's a very thought-provoking activity and breeds congeniality.
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Yet he embraced the congenial atmosphere once the match slipped beyond his grasp.
Times, Sunday Times
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All this he expressed with that ardour, which is congenial to the simplicity of truth; and with that enthusiasm, which in all instances accompanies recent conviction.
Imogen A Pastoral Romance
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On current form, the congenial Dubliner can save his heavenly appeals, but he seems to know something the rest of us don't, and has countered the notion that taking him on board was a sweetener.
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The summers out here are not congenial to the average North European.
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The 45-year-old star of Speed and Miss Congeniality is married to Jesse James, a former motorcycle mechanic and television presenter.
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QUOTATION: The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
Quotations
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If he could have dictated all the conditions, he would have chosen the evenings when Newland was out; not because the young man was uncongenial to him (the two got on capitally at their club) but because the old anecdotist sometimes felt, on Newland's part, a tendency to weigh his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed.
The Age of Innocence
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It does not think in the way we were brought up to think – well-mannered, congenial …
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Root of Procrastination
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He had proven such a congenial guest on his first visit that he had received a weekly invitation since that time.
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Dark-haired people can be just as congenial as light-haired people, I assume.
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No missionary force anywhere in the world could have had an easier time of it, or found a more congenial bunch of willing converts.
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After a short and "uncongenial" employment with Hallensteins, Charles became one of New Zealand's foremost literary figures, founding the literary journal Landfall in 1946.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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If Sandra for the major part is congenial, affable, it is her sparring partner, Regina King, who plays a perfect foil.
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He landed them on Newfoundland, then evidently decided to seek a more congenial site farther south.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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It's always the case when you get a bunch of bloggers in the room: as a rule they are the smartest, most congenial people you could hope to meet.
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No fuss was made in my day if a new writer took from an old one whatever material he found congenial.
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The fact is that military organizations, for the most part, study what makes them feel comfortable about themselves, not the uncongenial lessons of past conflicts.
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The department provides a congenial atmosphere for research.
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That the Democrats are still pretty congenial to their centrists suggests the degree to which the party has become, if not less partisan, then surely more ideologically moderate.
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Others found the new atmosphere quite congenial.
A Social History of Modern Spain
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a congenial atmosphere to work in
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Most people drink to be congenial, to celebrate, to have a good time.
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But it just makes the relevant statistics a bit more congenial.
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The caricature of celebrity-friendly religions, of course, is that they are long on consolation and short on anything else, such as uncongenial moral codes or an actual God whose own celebrity, celeb-watching snarks suggest, might occasionally overshadow the star's own.
Undefined
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Indeed, I believe that a proper understanding of this paradox can lead to the salvation of millions who now perceive no inconsistency in such congeniality.
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The summers out here are not congenial to the average North European.
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There you find congenial timber benches and planters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunately I found Christian Aysgarth almost as uncongenial as his sister Primrose.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Unfortunately the compères struck a bad-tempered note at this otherwise congenial event.
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The country is still changing in ways congenial to Democrats.
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The customers were mostly farming folk, a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.
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We will review our stated position only if we are satisfied that the viability of the project is not being impinged, the integral nature of the mother plant and our ancillary units are being maintained and all stakeholders are committed to develop a long-term congenial environment for smooth operations of the plant," a Tata spokesman said in a statement.
Tata Idles Work on Plant Despite Protests' End
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The herons and buzzards have left for places more congenial to watching and listening for desperate scrambling through snow.
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That means that they will more quickly be unable to cope, and be forced to leave their own homes for more expensive, less congenial care homes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Congenial minds are disposed to associate.
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The titular porch may only be figurative, but the dulcifying vibe of a laid-back afternoon hang amongst congenial compadres comes across loud and clear.
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Mary, remitted from beloved friends to an uncongenial stepmother, was doubtless on her part pining for sympathy.
Biography in the DNB
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Across the road and the two inevitable ditches was a kind of lych gate, I do not know what other name to give it, a covered gateway and benches, where the family who lived behind the inclosure could take the air, and, incidentally, a bit of gossip, if they had any congenial neighbors.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,
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And libertarian proposals in most spheres are normally congenial to conservatives too.
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Manton knew well, when he made this allusion to mischief formerly done to the crew of the Foam, that he touched a rankling sore in the breast of Scraggs, who in a skirmish with the natives some time before had lost an eye; and the idea of revenging himself on the defenseless women and children of his enemies was so congenial to the mind of the second mate, that his objections to act willingly under Manton's orders were at once removed.
Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific
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Stainless steel appliances and granite work surfaces - further examples of the Woods' strategic splurges - amplify the room's congenial personality.
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Poor Puttel, after gazing wistfully out of the window at the gaunt city cats skulking about the yard, would retire to the rug, and curl herself up as if all hope of finding congenial society had failed; while little Nick would sing till he vibrated on his perch, without receiving any response except an inquisitive chirp from the pert sparrows, who seemed to twit him with his captivity.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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The reason he had the respect of such a wide range of his younger peers was the quality of his poetry - not just his congenial personality.
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It has a congenial, boho atmosphere, with an emphasis on seasonal organic food.
Times, Sunday Times
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The continent is still commonly perceived as a magnet attracting exilic individuals who battle to create a congenial and convivial environment for themselves.
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Some rural counties and small towns have developed a satellitic relationship to the larger centers of population, and even around others that are distant from urban uproar, sprawl is beginning to find a congenial form for itself in vacation colonies of "second homes" in scenic places whose remoteness, together with a smaller and more settled population of Americans, used to be their staunch protection.
The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior
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It is important for parents to cultivate an enlightened and tender congeniality about such matters, otherwise they risk transferring unhealthy attitudes to their children.
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But, however much the public may appreciate the works of a man of genius, whether they be written to instruct or to amuse, certain it is that a literary man requires, in his wife, either a mind congenial to his own, or that pride in her husband's talents which induces her to sacrifice much of her own domestic enjoyment to the satisfaction of having his name extolled abroad.
Mr. Midshipman Easy
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Scrotes allowed, nevertheless, there was something in what MacMurrough had said and by way of illustrating this allowance he quoted from Augustine who had polluted the vein of friendship with the filth of desire—a phrase, Scrotes remarked, which would mean nothing to the Greeks, for whom friendship and desire were congenial if MacMurrough would forgive the paronomasia bedfellows.
At Swim, Two Boys
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He found having to think about these issues uncongenial.
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Journalists, as you know, are crucial to changing the current climate of opinion to one more congenial to liberty.
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uncongenial," the "friendly parting before any bitterness creeps in," and the "free to decide our lives in some happier and wiser way," rang false.
Sisters
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The haze in financial crisis abreaction during, achieve congenial compose to make why to plan?
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Eat slowly and in congenial company.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nevertheless, there is a kind of congeniality in Filipinos, and it's not only the president.
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
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Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.
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To certain smoke-dried spirits matter and motion and elastic aethers, and the hypothesis of this or that other spectacled professor, tell a speaking story; but for youth and all ductile and congenial minds, Pan is not dead, but of all the classic hierarchy alone survives in triumph; goat-footed, with
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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the uncongenial roommates were always fighting
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Rogers did not, to speak candidly, find her landlady a congenial spirit, and only remained upon her premises because being there was a lesser evil than living in that most unhomelike of all places, a boarding-house.
Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes
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And then it should probably work at what it can do and finds congenial.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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The religious climate at the time was uncongenial to new ideas.
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He believed that I had marked artistic talent and that I should not be forced to waste it in uncongenial work.
Madeleine: An Autobiography
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It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclo - sure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.
Sole Music
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City dwellers do not have to put up with those who they do not find congenial.
Times, Sunday Times
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He found the place and the department uncongenial.
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We need a few theatre houses with a congenial atmosphere in tune with the local architecture of the land.
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The conservative attitude which pervaded his book was especially congenial to America.
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In a different time, turning to himself, he manages to discover an uncongenial double, another maricone, a banker with whom he shares his name.
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No presumption has ever existed in favor of a judging style congenial to ‘moderates.’
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Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.
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She finds Canada highly congenial.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her face wore the serious-but-congenial mien suitable for a major client.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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A hospitable septuagenarian runs it with her equally congenial son.
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But, upon the whole, it could not be fairly said that his appearance was unprepossessing; indeed, to the congenial, it would have been doubtless not uncongenial; while to others, it could not fail to be at least curiously interesting, from the warm air of florid cordiality, contrasting itself with one knows not what kind of aguish sallowness of saving discretion lurking behind it.
The Confidence-Man
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Bloggers are not obliged to write about stories that they find uninteresting or uncongenial.
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City dwellers do not have to put up with those who they do not find congenial.
Times, Sunday Times
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Looking back, the heartland was a congenial place to nail down the business.
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The place was thronged with the offscourings of Paris, and Hervagault found himself in congenial quarters.
Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton
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Such men found commerce more congenial than industry, and went into the expanding banking sector where the sweat and gore of the factory floor and labour relations were sterilized into columns of figures.
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Each dosa is made to order and the cooks are congenial and seem to take pride in what they serve.
Grill 44 is Now Serving Up Dosas | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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Women are also learning that the game is all about congeniality.
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If he could have dictated all the conditions, he would have chosen the evenings when Newland was out; not because the young man was uncongenial to him (the two got on capitally at their club) but because the old anecdotist sometimes felt, on Newlands part, a tendency to weigh his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed.
V. Book I
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The art of the anthologist is the art of the host: his tact is exerted in choosing a congenial group; making them feel comfortable and at ease; keeping the wine and tobacco in circulation; while his eye is tenderly alert down the bright vista of tablecloth, for any lapse in the general cheer.
Preface
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Yes, Snow's congeniality is a pleasant change from Scott McClellan's robotic droning.
May 2006
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He seeks consultation from experts whose paradigms are congenial to and close to his own, and their recommendations also fall short of success.
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It has been my anxious wish to do my duty to my country, though politics never were congenial to me and while my dear Husband lived I left as much as I could to him.
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A few words from us decided him, and hope and joy sparkled in his eyes; the idea of embarking in a career, so congenial to his early habits and cherished wishes, made him as before energetic and bold.
The Last Man
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In 1819 he was at work again in northern England, eventually settling in Scarborough among congenial clients and friends.
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That single cell contracts and recoils from the things in its environment uncongenial to its constitution, and the things congenial it draws to itself and absorbs.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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The stadium is an unsightly, uncomfortable, and uncongenial place to watch or (so players say) play baseball; it was designed primarily with football in mind.
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This is decidedly odd because the atoms that so liberally and congenially flock together to form living things on Earth are exactly the same atoms that decline to do it elsewhere.
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I am wondering how much research fiction as a category is designed to appeal to the creative writing student for whom the institutional settings and protocols are uncongenial?
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7887The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
Quotations
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Frank was a very congenial colleague.
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Both the city and the work were congenial to him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Further, the style of Siloti's artistic life was utterly uncongenial to the post-1914 era and especially the American world.
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Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.
Wessex Tales
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Congenial minds are disposed to associate.
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Each character progresses from congenial intros to naked tell-alls, though some of them are more self-aware than seems plausible.
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It's not a portrait that will be entirely congenial to either his critics or his allies, though in many respects I think he comes off quite well.
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Their work ignored the inner contradictions in the Soviet bloc and reinforced a monolithic image of communism congenial to the cold war apparatus.
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Others found the new atmosphere quite congenial.
A Social History of Modern Spain
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It could only be called a dream assignment for we were both of an age and he was inevitably the most matily congenial, humorous and wise of comrades.
My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
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Mr Nairn is described as living in Ireland, but clearly reads the Scottish newspapers with a diligence they do not always deserve and has a tendency to keep cuttings of congenial opinions.
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The religious climate at the time was uncongenial to new ideas.
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-- That but one man, and he with one leg, should have such ill power given him; his one sour word leavening into congenial sourness (as, to my knowledge, it did) the dispositions, before sweet enough, of a numerous company.
The Confidence-Man
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But, however much the public may appreciate the works of a man of genius, whether they be written to instruct or to amuse, certain it is that a literary man requires in his wife either a mind congenial to his own, or that pride in her husband's talents which induces her to sacrifice much of her own domestic enjoyment to the satisfaction of having his name extolled abroad.
Mr. Midshipman Easy
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Some of them are produced by rough, others by abstergent, others by inflammatory substances, -- these act upon the testing instruments of the tongue, and produce a more or less disagreeable sensation, while other particles congenial to the tongue soften and harmonize them.
Timaeus
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One motive, of course, was his desperate need for some congenial company.
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If the convalescent is a woman, the means of amusing her are more varied and more congenial perhaps.
Making Good on Private Duty
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Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.
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What has so far been described is the idyllic situation where the bookshop owner is congenial.
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Frankly, we are concerned about your performing the Twist, in an era uncongenial to it, and how it might aggravate your sciatica.
Dear Chairman Bernanke
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The mounds and middens are significant and long-lived disturbed areas, highly congenial to the weedy species ancestral to the earliest cultivated and domesticated food plants.
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So if the marketing peeps at ASUS expect a round of applause, or even a congenial nod of respect, they are likely to be disappointed.
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Which is weird because Carter seems like such a happy guy, a congenial man with a great sense of humor.
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Indeed, economists have good reason to find the theory of punctuated equilibrium uncongenial.
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The herons and buzzards have left for places more congenial to watching and listening for desperate scrambling through snow.
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Anyway, it was a weird but fun day spent with congenial folks, and I did get to meet the newscaster, even if only as a disembodied voice in my ear.
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No fuss was made in my day if a new writer took from an old one whatever material he found congenial.
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Grenville found the post uncongenial and his successes were few.
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City dwellers do not have to put up with those who they do not find congenial.
Times, Sunday Times
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A sensitive session that might be uncongenial for resolving delicate domestic dilemmas.
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Eat slowly and in congenial company.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a congenial kind of place.
Times, Sunday Times
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the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs
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The man is so congenially infectious, so enthusiastically loquacious, he makes you want to grin and agree with even his wackier statements.
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35The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
Quotations
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Merely holding an uncongenial opinion one that would be considered radically unrestrictive in most of the developed world makes on a “traitor”, “defector”, and “5th-columnist”.
Friendly Fire: Gun Nuts Go Full-Auto on One of Their Own « Lean Left
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I find the movie-person's view of the arts much more congenial, whatever quarrels I may have with it.
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Uncle Miller was constantly making propositions, and to develop a mood more congenial to bargaining he passed the whiskey freely.
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The age of free love and four-letter words was not congenial to this son of a Methodist lay-preacher.
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Some of those arguments seem insane to people who find them uncongenial.
Rally to Restore Authority
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There is not much artistic possibility to be found in caring for a sick friend, enduring an unhappy marriage, performing uncongenial work.
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By adding in some component of intelligence or false congeniality, the interview steers you away from understanding the contest for what it really is - a valuation of the female body.
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The woman who earns a competence in congenial work insists on economic standards which are often beyond the capacity of the men whom she knows and might possibly marry.
Homemaking and Careers
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At a luxurious hotel he played golf with a very congenial group every morning and tennis most afternoons.
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Compost provides congenial conditions for roots to develop.
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I can think of no more congenial place to be on Earth.
Times, Sunday Times
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I merely find it congenial, and consistent with scientific common sense.
Infinite in All Directions
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Hamal was close to Sol and Terra, but it was also within the boundaries of the great Majoris Congeries, an intragalactic “open” cluster of twenty stars that was home to as many wildly diverse species, from methane-breathers to one winged species that found the atmospheres of stars congenial.
THE WOUNDED SKY
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`Let's all have a drink together,' he said congenially
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Trilling's, which revolutionized our understanding of this recalcitrant work, brings the history of nineteenth-century ideas about duty, sincerity and much else to bear on the novel's uncongenial insistence on "fixity" of identity and conduct.
Powell's Books: Overview
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Yet he embraced the congenial atmosphere once the match slipped beyond his grasp.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the uncongenial tone of her voice, however, a slow flush had caught her cheeks unawares.
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And our organizations offer a congenial environment for its infection to spread.
The Constraints of Corporate Tradition
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Made famous by the Muslim nawabs of Lucknow, those on the receiving end enjoyed courtesy, food, drink and congeniality - all served with an elegant world-class flourish.
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I however keep coming back to Thailand to see the breathtaking landscape, beautiful beaches and congenial people.
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A question that simple has the potential for being haunting; and indeed, it has recurred to me periodically since, whenever I have come up against an uncongenial, even repellant text.
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The author has a good deal to say about Emerson's importation of Asian literature into his own poems and the subsequent congeniality of Buddhism for other writers in the American canon.
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Robert only learns of Edna's new abode yesterday from his mother and claims to have returned because the Mexicans were uncongenial.
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Caution two: Must the being careful investor have no plan with the risk which brings excessively congenially .
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By contrast with her violent and uncongenial relationship with her first husband, Sir Percival Glyde, Laura appears to share all her second husband's aims, interests, and concerns.