I find the movie-person's view of the arts much more congenial, whatever quarrels I may have with it. |
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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 staff have always been congenial, the atmosphere bemusedly chaotic, the pizza a dripping success. |
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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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By contrast, the claim that the distinction is purely semantic is congenial to a monist position, whether nomological or anomalous. |
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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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The co-owner of this rotisserie is a personification of congenial attentiveness. |
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The German view of philologically interesting mythologies pregnant with sophisticated ideas proved uncommonly congenial to the British. |
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By two o'clock we wrenched ourselves away from a terribly gossipy and congenial lunch, and went back to the salt mines. |
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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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The group of decapod workers is extremely congenial and the interaction has resulted in many new collaborations. |
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The congenial figurines combine favored features of extant ceramics with postures and expressions of enhanced fluidity and liveliness. |
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It's written in tetrameter couplets, a form much more congenial to midcentury writers. |
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Extreme liberals tend to be those who have not found rules at all congenial. |
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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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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 was a bright, congenial child who needed constant physical care, but was a pleasure to be around. |
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She is then plied with drinks, hot and cold, sat down in a warm spot with congenial people and made to enjoy herself. |
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What has so far been described is the idyllic situation where the bookshop owner is congenial. |
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A congenial man with a neatly trimmed white beard, he's a classic civic booster who loves to extol his hometown's virtues. |
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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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He looked younger and more congenial than he appears on television and in newspapers. |
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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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Your artistic nature suggests enjoyment of good music, fine works of art, good literature, and intelligent, congenial friends. |
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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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He devoted these years to philosophy, writing, and the company of a circle of congenial friends. |
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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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The conservative attitude which pervaded his book was especially congenial to America. |
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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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I fear that the tone of this platform would be far more congenial to the French revolutionaries than the American. |
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And libertarian proposals in most spheres are normally congenial to conservatives too. |
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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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The age of free love and four-letter words was not congenial to this son of a Methodist lay-preacher. |
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In my view, rock, despite a few exceptions, is not really suited for storytelling and not especially congenial to the subtler kind of lyric. |
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It will be congenial to all since it must be committed to modelling, to methodological individualism and to the notion of optimisation. |
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These are fighting words for a man whose earlier work seems a long, quiet morning of congenial thought. |
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Also, as a regular worshipper at St James's Church, Thornton, John clearly finds church-going congenial. |
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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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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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So if you're hungry, hard luck, although certainly pay a visit if you value a decent pint and good company in congenial surroundings. |
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Most people drink to be congenial, to celebrate, to have a good time. |
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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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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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Once, after a couple of meetings, it was agreed that the idea of a second marriage was congenial to both of them, they decided to put it to execution. |
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He is congenial but often distant and he keeps his private life private. |
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A hospitable septuagenarian runs it with her equally congenial son. |
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Many on both left and right find congenial niches in which to worship, focusing their religious lives on the small church rather than the large one. |
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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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The country is still changing in ways congenial to Democrats. |
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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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America needs a strategy to adapt to the faltering strength of its most important and congenial allies. |
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The tennis complex terminates the Olympic site, and the centre court was designed to be a visual stop for the main axis, as well as a congenial focus for the sport. |
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South Carolina is very congenial to socially conservative candidates. |
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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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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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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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What he has to say may be congenial to the beliefs of many, but one can't overlook the feeling that the relations between his ideas and evidence sometimes feel slight. |
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This extreme anti-realism was not congenial to logical positivists. |
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Sometimes in the summer the coffee house arranges for a jazz or folk group to play out there and I enjoy seeing people in the anonymous city gather in such a congenial way. |
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He did not find an office career congenial, and for fulfilment he turned not only to music but to literature, becoming a voracious reader. |
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All the congenial things the three Democratic presidents said are true. |
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That last round was congenial, like a group hug on American Idol. |
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Recreational salmon fishing can be a technically demanding kind of sport fishing, not necessarily congenial for beginning fishermen. |
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This happiness is reflected in the medieval lightness of the poem, which is perfectly congenial with its catechismal rhetoric. |
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The task was a novel and not unwholly congenial one, but he finally got the attention of a saleswoman and made his wishes known. |
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Nor have I scrupled, in so flagrant a case, to allow myself a severity of animadversion little congenial with the general spirit of these papers. |
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Initially, the congenial Enzi seemed to be blindsided by the Cheneys. |
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Milton had come to stand apart from all sects, though apparently finding the Quakers most congenial. |
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She herself represents a congenial mingling of English and Scottish blood. |
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That philosophy of the relation of psyche and soma which may be called materialistic nonism, the philosophy most congenial to behaviorists, was as ancient as Greek thought. |
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That's not hard to fathom, as the former police officer and once-prized Conservative candidate can be as congenial as a honey badger with jock itch. |
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This provided Thomas with a regular income and brought him into contact with Louis MacNeice, a congenial drinking companion whose advice Thomas cherished. |
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But the bastardish mixture in the work of Per Olov Enquist is congenial to express both, especially the subtle dependency and interaction between them. |
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