| 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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| He had emerged, married an uncongenial and rather vulgar Swiss girl, and obtained a professorship at Cooper's Hill. |
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| Well, seeing as I seem to be at my rudest and my uncongenial when around you, I certainly hope not. |
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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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| Despite the uncongenial tone of her voice, however, a slow flush had caught her cheeks unawares. |
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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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| Indeed, economists have good reason to find the theory of punctuated equilibrium uncongenial. |
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| Parliamentary secretaries exist to sign letters, reply to debates at uncongenial hours, and read briefs approved by their elders if not betters. |
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| I don't trust myself to gauge the plausibility of this idea because I find it so thoroughly uncongenial. |
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| A sensitive session that might be uncongenial for resolving delicate domestic dilemmas. |
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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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| Bloggers are not obliged to write about stories that they find uninteresting or uncongenial. |
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| Many were made, and are still being made, inconvenient, uncongenial and expensive. |
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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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| The situation is not helped by the uncongenial interiors of public toilets and, of course, their widespread closure throughout Scotland. |
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| He was seen as an effective leader, despite being taciturn and uncongenial. |
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| But even if his company is uncongenial, the boarding house will soon be left far behind. |
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| In fact, Senator Pinochet may find uncongenial a life in which others talk back rather than obey orders. |
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| I'm not wowed by the fairly uncongenial interface, all the more so because the dropdown lists can't display more than 3 items at a time. |
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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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| 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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| This may appeal to those raised with answers they found uncongenial. |
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| Sooner or later, Kant warns, there will be no empty space left for those of us who have found the already populated places too cramped or too uncongenial for comfort. |
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| Grenville found the post uncongenial and his successes were few. |
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| But that does not prove that their voters cannot grasp the democratic idea, only that voters' choices can be uncongenial to the few who have power and are prepared neither to yield nor share it. |
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| The likelihood is that such elections will be carefully manipulated to ensure that nobody uncongenial to the authorities in Beijing gains any power. |
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| Finds competitive environments uncongenial, even demotivating. |
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| I'm sure she'd understand that obscure and tangential efforts to deter the PA from adopting negotiating strategies that are uncongenial to US interests trump such peripheral issues as feeding starving kids. |
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| It is becoming all the more challenging because school structures, curricula and the learning environment are seen by many young people as uncongenial or irrelevant to their lives. |
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| The work was uncongenial and arduous, but it did pay 15 shillings a day. |
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| He found office life uncongenial, and eventually left the company. |
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