How To Use Conviviality In A Sentence
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This is L'esprit ACCOR, the breath of France that kindles the spark of conviviality , no matter where you are in the world.
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Booklet photos show the couple in playful mood, and there is this wonderful sense of conviviality in their playing that denotes two musical minds in one accord.
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Since coffee first appeared in Arab society hundreds of years ago it's been associated with conviviality and culture.
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The latter-day leisure-class festivities and entertainments may continue in some slight degree to serve the religious need and in a higher degree the needs of recreation and conviviality, but they also serve an invidious purpose; and they serve it none the less effectually for having a colorable non-invidious ground in these more avowable motives.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
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Brooks uses the Yiddish word "haimish" to describe what it was the simpler camps had but the luxurious ones did not, a word that "suggests warmth, domesticity and unpretentious conviviality.
Michael Rossmann, SJ: Finding God And Community In Simple Dwellings
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At no period of life was I ever what men call intemperate; I never was in the habit of intoxication [the italics are Poe's]; I never drank drams, et cetera; but for a brief period, while I resided in Richmond and edited the Messenger, I certainly did give way, at long intervals, to the temptation held out on all sides to the spirit of Southern conviviality.
Edgar Allan Poe -- After Fifty Years
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Look at the stories appearing about the reflowering of social and commercial life in Lebanon–the rebirth of restaurants, coffee shops, and other sites of conviviality–now radically disrupted by renewed violent conflict.
In Our Minds
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The magazine also enhanced its reputation for conviviality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just a few of the most famous objects, including the Euphronios krater stolen by tomb robbers and recovered three years ago from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Sarcophagus of the Spouses, an enchanting icon of connubial conviviality, rate display cases of their own.
The Joy of Museums That Live in the Past
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Just a few of the most famous objects, including the Euphronios krater stolen by tomb robbers and recovered three years ago from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Sarcophagus of the Spouses, an enchanting icon of connubial conviviality, rate display cases of their own.
The Joy of Museums That Live in the Past
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Contrarily, loving good food and conviviality can be a liability.
Times, Sunday Times
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The criteria for the places you chose to feature in your guide are very different from those of traditional restaurant guides: artisanship, tradition, conviviality and sustainability.
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But both philosophers do think it important to redeploy enthusiasm and conviviality in philosophically affective ways.
Post-Secular Conviviality
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An intemperate man has strong temptation to plead: he began with conviviality, and only arrives at solitary intemperance as the ultimate degradation.
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Mr. Bond [Bondfield], and the returns of civility on my part could only be communicated [to] me through the same Channel, a kind of conviviality so tdious and irksome, that I had much rather have remained in silent Observation and Reflection.
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778
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Dreading the finality of closing time, of exchanging warmth, light, conviviality for the loneliness of a rented room, hideous dreams, insomnia—-the endlessness of night, they start a new game, comparing scars.
Scars
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They've been tearing into each other in party meetings, bellowing at each other through their newspaper columns, accusing each other of vanity, iniquity, venality, even conviviality.
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The members were glad to be spared long and expensive journeys, while most of those on the conference trains enjoyed the conviviality, the singing of rousing songs, and the lashings of drink on board.
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If you take away from food the wholeness of growing it or take away the joy and conviviality of preparing it in your own home, then I believe you are talking about a whole new definition of the human being.
Bone Marrow--"Light of my life, fire of my loins."
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How do you think the leadership can get around to this kind of conviviality that we're seeing here?
CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2009
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Yet the clearly exhausted and jet-lagged international best-selling author radiates conviviality.
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I know you can't dine here in consequence of the tempestuous weather on the Covent Garden shores, but if you will come in when you have done Trinculizing, you will delight me greatly, and add in no inconsiderable degree to the "conviviality" of the meeting.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870
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These upstarts made a sales pitch tuned to our anti-ESF prejudices, promising "human class size," "conviviality" and "a warm welcome.
Skiing Without the Lift
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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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Sainte Céciliens and the art of conviviality. convive (kon-veev) noun, masculine and feminine guest (at table), fellow diner
French Word-A-Day:
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I'm hoping to hook up with friends for dinner and conviviality.
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The playing is almost always exquisite, from the folksy piano lilt and almost pop-hook conviviality of Utnem's Kyrie, to the evocative spaciousness of Nu Seglar Vi Inn, a slowly spun web that makes remarkable use of the saxophonist's tone-bending and panpipe-like inflections.
Trygve Seim/Andreas Utnem: Purcor – review
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The cap is then sent round for contributions towards a further instalment of the foundation of conviviality, which is fetched from the canteen or the sergeant's mess; and another and yet another supply is sent for, as long as the funds hold out and somebody keeps sober enough to act as Ganymede.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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The magazine also enhanced its reputation for conviviality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Palace conviviality was an indispensable component on the history of chinese traditional music, it had reached unprecedented brilliance in Sui and Tang dynasties.
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In his work on immediatism in particular, I see a kind of joy in ‘everyday life’ - the small acts of conviviality and sociability that make life worth living.
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The magazine also enhanced its reputation for conviviality.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is these old men in their restrained conviviality for whom she has a particular tendresse.
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One I laid up and with the other I betook myself to enjoying the pleasures of friendship and conviviality and consorting with intimates and boon-companions and with the sons of the merchants, nor did I leave one but I caroused with him and he with me, and I lavished all my money on comrades and good cheer, till there remained with me naught; [FN#15] whereupon I betook myself to the friends and fellow-topers upon whom I had wasted my wealth, so perhaps they might provide for my case; but, when I visited them and went round about to them all, I found no vantage in one of them, nor would any so much as break a bittock of bread in my face.
Arabian nights. English
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She told her audience that the Germans had technical know-how in matters such as organising complicated scene changes but, better still, they emphasised the conviviality, the excitement, of theatregoing with "spacious foyers . . . very unlike the cramped conditions in London theatres".
A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
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Breaking bread together is communion, community, the conviviality of friendship.
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Facing the dark open sea and silent of traffic, the village at night is a bubble of conviviality.
