How To Use Genial In A Sentence

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
They said he was a pitiless , cold - blooded fellow , with no geniality in him.
It here means the art of moving in coition, which is especially affected, even by modest women, throughout the East and they have many books teaching the genial art. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She had a cigarette butt between her lips and a genial look on her face.
an uncongenial atmosphere

Of the entire team, Elvira was the most companionable, genial and impressionable member, always bubbling with enthusiasm and high spirits.
The doctor could not help laughing at the sort of "moue" she made: when he laughed, he had something peculiarly good-natured and genial in his look. Villette
In fact, the British flacks have used their facade of congeniality and cooperation to spread some of the most blatant falsifications of the campaign.
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
She had an ideal of fatherhood, had gentle, silent, useless Lydia -- formed upon the genial, sunshiny type of parent popular in books, and she cast a romantic veil over disappointed, selfish, crossgrained Malcolm Martie, the Unconquered
They usually proved both intelligent and congenial.
We had a genial / helpful waiter who led us capably through the menu.
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
His disposition is said to be most amiable and genial, and his affability endeared him especially to his own countrymen, by whom he was called alii lokomaikai, "the kind chief. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Whatever be our inward frame, we are apt to perceive a wonderful congeniality in the world without us.
She was the most companionable, genial and impressionable member of the team, always bubbling with enthusiasm and high spirits.
Only a congenial outsider would remain with so unpromising a figure.
The owner is front of house and seems permanently genial and benign as we all might be if we lived, as he, his wife and children do, in such a mood-improving environment.
For even in those most ungenial days he aspired to literary fame, and as the by-product of laborious years issued, at his own expense, the ‘Poems of a Journeyman Mason’.
It's a congenial kind of place. Times, Sunday Times
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
Second Daughter - in - law and Third Daughter - in - law exchanged glances, simultaneously wiping the genial expressions from their faces.
Suffering and death and all ugliness were forgotten in congenial and healthful companionship. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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.
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.
His real kindness was shown by genial estimates of character and liberal appreciation of the labours of others engaged in kindred studies.
I fear that the tone of this platform would be far more congenial to the French revolutionaries than the American.
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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Opening his eyes again he saw Davey Davidson standing by the bed, his expression genial, carrying a basket of I fruit. Two women
He was always genial, with the parochialism and humour of his north-eastern background.
MASON: Well, I think that this kind of congeniality and ease and sweetness and softness. CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2005
In addition, if you look closely at the article you will see it has a certain wry affectionateness towards Labour, and deals with the expenses scandals humorously, pointing out just a few individuals who have apparently failed their genial and public spirited leader. Archive 2009-05-16
Both the city and the work were congenial to him. Times, Sunday Times
He found his first job - as a bank clerk - uncongenial, and the armed services always beckoned.
He was a pleasant and genial countryman whose neighbourly qualities were much to the fore throughout his life.
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.
It was certainly not the action of a man whom many people have described to me as being ‘genial, kindly and benign’.
The weather continued rainy and ungenial for some days after his return.
Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around. Stray Studies from England and Italy
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
Thus, under no obligations whatever, they inspired in one another a genial satisfaction in the trumpery. FAIRYLAND
The two men continued to exchange genial insults for the next four decades. Times, Sunday Times
His sparkling blue eyes and happy smile showed a genial personality.
But there are records of Antony which represent him as a far more genial and human personage; full of a knowledge of human nature, and of a tenderness and sympathy, which account for his undoubted power over the minds of men; and showing, too, at times, a certain covert and "pawky" humour which puts us in mind, as does the humour of many of the Egyptian hermits, of the old-fashioned Scotch. The Hermits
an uncongenial soil
It's just lots of genial old blokes sitting around whittling chess pieces and playing with marbles. Times, Sunday Times
The mock-up behind the move was to make the Act more congenial to the economic development needs of Zambia.
The owner scooted over from doing his genial rounds of the table and scooped up the hapless moggy, depositing him safely but unceremoniously on the street outside.
It was in fact a kind of nuptial hymn, which, taking its start from the thought of nature as the universal mother, celebrated the preliminary pairing and mating together of all fresh things, in the hot and genial spring-time -- the immemorial nuptials of the soul of spring itself and the brown earth; and was full of a delighted, mystic sense of what passed between them in that fantastic marriage. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
A Miss Congeniality Beauty Pageant will be held on 30 September at the Waterford Crystal Social Centre, Cork Road, from 8 till late.
And then it should probably work at what it can do and finds congenial. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
She liked Hogg and loved Leigh Hunt, but Peacock was uncongenial to her. Biography in the DNB
He was seen as an effective leader, despite being taciturn and uncongenial.
“His wife makes a lovely chatelaine, and Oom Hendrik has assumed the congenial functions of cellarer and chaplain.” The Five of Hearts
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’.
He had emerged, married an uncongenial and rather vulgar Swiss girl, and obtained a professorship at Cooper's Hill.
Which is weird because Carter seems like such a happy guy, a congenial man with a great sense of humor.
Indeed the wide diffusion of letters in the States, that favourite theme for boasting and bragging over the unenlightened and analphabetic Old World, has tended only to exaggerate the defective and disagreeable side of a national character lacking geniality and bristling with prickly individuality. Arabian nights. English
J'hésite à parler de livre électronique, car le mot "livre" désigne aussi bien le contenu éditorial (quand on dit qu'untel a écrit un livre) que l'objet en papier, génial, qui permet sa diffusion. Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
Merv's smart showing there got him a daytime chat show, whose geniality continues today in the Ellen DeGeneris talkathon.
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.
This mechanical and repetitive work was certainly uncongenial, but so in a different way was the company that Dickens was obliged to keep.
They respected his shrewd brain, and also knew him as a genial host when he entertained journalists and government press officers. Times, Sunday Times
What they call congeniality of tastes ain't always it. Options
If the cold of winter were to continue unmitigated from year to year, without the genial influence of summer, the human race, as is apparent in polar regions and upland mountainous districts, would degenerate into dwarfishness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828
He pours coffee, a genial host. Times, Sunday Times
His geniality, reliability and ability made him a popular figure.
In addition to gaining seriousness, the genial, good-natured boy becomes a sarcastic and bitter man.
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
Enemies have disappeared and new ones - many once former allies and even congenial friends - have taken their places.
We will miss that quizzical, inquiring, genial but incisive mind. Times, Sunday Times
Led by playing of uncommon mellowness and timbral purity from clarinetist Anthony McGill, enhanced by the elegant understatement of veteran violist Michael Tree and the character-rich keyboard work of pianist Anna Polonsky, they brought out the genial warmth in Mozart's writing. A superlative performance by the Schumann Trio
The summers out here are not congenial to the average North European.
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
London has the option of trying to find a more congenial partner with which to merge. Times, Sunday Times
This phenomenon actually adds greatly to the congenial atmosphere of an agency and encourages friendship and good relations at all levels.
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.
It has a congenial, boho atmosphere, with an emphasis on seasonal organic food. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Individually-determined rationality is geniality, — aptness for an absolutely individual cognizing, so that the same can absolutely be accomplished by no other person-the artistic virtue proper; to it belong courage, composedness, modesty, grace, sympathy, confidence, etc. Christian Ethics. Volume II.��Pure Ethics.
Behind the stereotype of the genial, cracker-barrel philosopher is a story of avarice, resentment, and political awakening.
Zetsche, famous for his thick white moustache and genial personality during the presentation he told a Jeff Foxworthy joke and referenced lightening a car by using a chainsaw, called the roadster "a trophy" that combines style and comfort in a sports car. Forbes.com: News
On the regular menu, De Marco's inclusion of spunky mackerel in his ceviche raises it above the too-genial norm.
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.
The congenial old All Black to whom he had been chatting was suddenly a different man.
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.
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
Even in gritty noir films, he was cast as the genial, sincere foil to the bad boys. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
Every holiday I have, I come back to Shanghai, I find life here is so much easier, the people are so genial and friendly.
Malemute Kid's frightful concoction did its work; the men of the camps and trails unbent in its genial glow, and jest and song and tales of past adventure went round the board. TO THE MAN ON THE TRAIL
She was gifted with a white face and large soft eyes — even beyond the common measure of a cow — short little horns, that she would scarcely think of pushing even at a dog (unless he made mouths at her infant), a flat broad nose ever genial to be rubbed, and a delicate fringe of finely pointed yellow hairs around her pleasant nostrils and above her clovery lips. Springhaven
It's a very thought-provoking activity and breeds congeniality.
He was loved for his genial sportsmanship and dry wit. Times, Sunday Times
We know not whether to admire most the genial, fresh, and discursive concinnity of the author, or his playful fancy, weird imagination, and compass of style, at once both objective and subjective .... The Biglow Papers
Yet he embraced the congenial atmosphere once the match slipped beyond his grasp. Times, Sunday Times
A warm genial spirit; a glowing fancy, and a friendly heart; every faculty but diligence, and every virtue but 'the understrapping virtue of discretion:' such is frequently the constitution of the poet; the natural result of it also has frequently been pointed out, and sufficiently bewailed. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
He loved both the outdoor life and the companionship of genial and talented colleagues.
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
In an ungenial moment, Socrates, too, scorned them for taking fees, calling them ‘prostitutes of wisdom.’
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.
They are also of British background, genial disposition and impeccable manners. Times, Sunday Times
The summers out here are not congenial to the average North European.
The cloacal and genial glands were chosen because they release pheromones used in mate attraction or courtship.
They are a genial, amiable lot, and they come across as personable and excruciatingly ethical in the course of the series.
The 45-year-old star of Speed and Miss Congeniality is married to Jesse James, a former motorcycle mechanic and television presenter.
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
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
It does not think in the way we were brought up to think – well-mannered, congenial … Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Root of Procrastination
He had proven such a congenial guest on his first visit that he had received a weekly invitation since that time.
an accessible and genial man
Larry's voice threw off its assumed geniality, and became drivingly hard. Children of the Whirlwind
After all, the essence of the thing is to have simple, unaffected people; the poseur is the ruin of genial intercourse, unless he is The Upton Letters
Dark-haired people can be just as congenial as light-haired people, I assume.
He was a warm-hearted friend and genial host.
No missionary force anywhere in the world could have had an easier time of it, or found a more congenial bunch of willing converts.
The latter's genial nature and dressy appearance pleased him.
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
'Perhaps under the tables,' says young Angus, chirking up still more at this geniality. Somewhere in Red Gap
If Sandra for the major part is congenial, affable, it is her sparring partner, Regina King, who plays a perfect foil.
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
But at no time was the genial little poet "blate," as he would himself have said. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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.
And eventually I came to realise that I was not the genial gentleman of my imaginings, but I was indeed a cad.
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Led by playing of uncommon mellowness and timbral purity from clarinetist Anthony McGill, enhanced by the elegant understatement of veteran violist Michael Tree and the character-rich keyboard work of pianist Anna Polonsky, they brought out the genial warmth in Mozart's writing. A superlative performance by the Schumann Trio
They are also of British background, genial disposition and impeccable manners. Times, Sunday Times
The headteacher is very genial/has a genial manner.
No fuss was made in my day if a new writer took from an old one whatever material he found congenial.
And having more than you can conceivably use of such objects is not met with opprobrium but with genial acceptance.
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.
The show—which includes nonsense songs, surreal dance numbers, a visit from a mystery guest, and the staging of a terrible play—takes its energy and much of its shape from an arsenal of genial flimflammery.
The department provides a congenial atmosphere for research.
Hesper, shineth in heaven a light more genial ever? Poems and Fragments
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.
Others found the new atmosphere quite congenial. A Social History of Modern Spain
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad played a more friendly political game than usual, suiting up for a genial game of futsal (indoor soccer) with Bolivian President Evo Morales, reports Sky News. Ahmadinejad, Morales Soccer Game In Iran (VIDEO)
a congenial atmosphere to work in
Most people drink to be congenial, to celebrate, to have a good time.
But it just makes the relevant statistics a bit more congenial.
And imagine his horror when he shuffled into the consultant's room to be confronted by a genial man flanked by half a dozen female medical students. The Sun
But the ungenial man was an excellent conductor who was generous enough every second or third week to invite the big maestros of the world.
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
But over the course of our antenatal classes, given by a genial, no-nonsense midwife called Viv who says things like "Can someone pass me my woolly model of the womb?", New Statesman
Living well, it seems, is the best revenge, even for a genial poet.
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.
The summers out here are not congenial to the average North European.
The simple concept of changing the outlook of something so ordinary as a streetlight is genial – the way Lovegrove did it is astonishing. Ross Lovegrove Solar Trees in Vienna | Inhabitat
There you find congenial timber benches and planters. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately I found Christian Aysgarth almost as uncongenial as his sister Primrose. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Purely natural plant formulation, kind geniality, validity control skin base layer the melanin is born.
There are those," Graham said, "who have tried to reduce Christ to a genial and innocuous appeaser; but Jesus said 'You are wrong-I have come as a firesetter and sword-wielder. CounterPunch
And maybe the grandads in the crowd will fill in the details of his illustrious career to the younger generations, so they fully recognise the fabulous contribution this genial Irishman brought to the famous Lancashire football club.
On the surface he is a genial giant, effusive in his thanks when handed a drink.
It made him single-minded and uncompromising, and he was not known for his geniality.
To one and all, this most genial of personalities was affectionately known as Mickey.
Unfortunately the compères struck a bad-tempered note at this otherwise congenial event.
The country is still changing in ways congenial to Democrats.
The customers were mostly farming folk, a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.
There was a certain genial tenderness in this atmosphere that even in the hottest day of August the eastern coast never knows. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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
The herons and buzzards have left for places more congenial to watching and listening for desperate scrambling through snow.
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
He has such a genial, grandfatherly manner that criminals seem genuinely relieved to be able to confess to him.
Congenial minds are disposed to associate.
His many friends and supporters in Killarney send their best regards to the genial Christy and we all hope to see him out and about very soon.
He was too much of a gentleman, however, too genial and good-natured, too averse to controversy to agitate for the major generalcy he knew he deserved.
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.
And then, just ere our hands met, a twinkle of -- oh -- such distant and controlled geniality quickened the many tiny wrinkles in the corner of the eyes; the clear blue of the eyes was suffused by an almost colourful warmth; the face, too, seemed similarly to suffuse; the thin lips, harsh-set the instant before, were as gracious as Bernhardt's when she moulds sound into speech. CHAPTER I
The talk among the crowd was genial and friendly, and when the guests of honour came into sight the women would shriek and hug them, and the men would shake their hands in congratulation.
Mary, remitted from beloved friends to an uncongenial stepmother, was doubtless on her part pining for sympathy. Biography in the DNB
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,
"Ye're loaded, are ye, Parcy?" asked the genial host in the burring Northumbrian voice we know so well even to-day.
Dapper of dress and genial of manner, Corbett seems the antithesis of the tortured comic suffering endless agonies for his art.
As to Gabriel, during a large portion of his splendid youth he exhibited a genial breadth of front that affined him to Shakespeare and Walter Scott. Old Familiar Faces
Kendal, whither I had sent all my clothes and viatica; from thence to go to London, and to see whether or no I could arrange my pecuniary matters, so as leaving Mrs. Coleridge all that was necessary to her comforts, to go myself to Madeira, having a persuasion, strong as the life within me, that one winter spent in a really warm, genial climate, would completely restore me. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
A knowledge of the philosophy of education in expression avails little without the ability to create the genial atmosphere conducive to the development of the student. Evolution of Expression — Volume 1
Michael's genial good nature was very much to the fore at the Golf Club and he felt ‘at home’ here in more ways than one.
I had to get the kick and the hit of the stuff, the crawl of the maggots, the genial brain glow, the laughter tickle, the touch of devilishness and sting, the smile over the face of things, ere I could join my fellows and make one with them. Chapter 31
'Forgive me if I say you talk like the bigger child,' Fleetwood said lightly, not ungenially; for the features he looked on were museful, a picture in their one expression. The Amazing Marriage — Complete
Always genial, he would entertain guests to apple turnovers and tea in the midst of his specimens. Times, Sunday Times
And libertarian proposals in most spheres are normally congenial to conservatives too.
Our ever-genial Antipodean hosts have seized upon this as another sign of Pommy sporting weakness.
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
Stainless steel appliances and granite work surfaces - further examples of the Woods' strategic splurges - amplify the room's congenial personality.
But few who applaud true sportsmanship would begrudge this genial chap every prize available.
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
He lends Pseudolus his own brand of roguish geniality: even the moment when his eyes lasciviously follow a courtesan's rotating hips is purged of offence by his unthreatening charm.
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.
Roman conception (whencesoever emanating) of the natal genius, as the secret and central representative of what is most characteristic and individual in the nature of every human being, are derived alike the notion of the _genial_ and our modern notion of _genius_ as contradistinguished from _talent_. Autobiographical Sketches
It has a congenial, boho atmosphere, with an emphasis on seasonal organic food. Times, Sunday Times
The continent is still commonly perceived as a magnet attracting exilic individuals who battle to create a congenial and convivial environment for themselves.
Vegetarian bangers with cabbage and onion clapshot will humble many a meat-eater, while the earthy sweet potato, coconut and lentil soup is as genial as an old friend's embrace.
Hereby are the faculties of our souls exalted, elevated, and enabled to act primigenial powers, with respect unto God and our enjoyment of him; which is our utmost end and blessedness. Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God��s Elect
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
Elle est tout simplement geniale et donne le sourire rien qu'en la regardant! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
The two men, patriarchs of the most powerful families in American politics, have been mucking around on boats this week, playing endless rounds of golf and cracking jokes like any pair of genial old duffers.
The first three lines encourage us to read without pausing but the forced pause created by the quotation marks around "genial" allow us to catch our breath before moving on through the next two lines and arriving at the inserted nonrestrictive "in my youth. Kerouac the Writer
Polly took great joy in teaching it to her uncle, but when, himself questing for some of this genial flood of life that bathed about his brother, Frederick essayed the song, he noted suppressed glee on the part of his listeners, which increased, through giggles and snickers, to a great outburst of laughter. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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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