Kevin Pietersen came out to have a chat, and it all seemed congenial enough.
In this all too congenial context, such veteran eccentric contrarians as Hanne Darboven, Louise Bourgeois, and Leon Golub come off as tame and fussy.
Might someone win Miss Congeniality; or were all gals deemed "congenial" by thriving in this "people person" profession in the first place?
The whole agency works under one gigantic big top, like a circus — not crowded, quite congenial, all of it surrounding a spacious break-time area, with pinball machines and a basketball hoop, and every Friday during the summer months we have a happy hour with free beer from a keg.
Laughter, meditation, therapy, Valium, antidepressants, liberal helpings of wine and beer, loyal and patient friends, forgiving children, a congenial work situation that allows me to spend much of my time alone — all these have helped me to carry on.
It was a congenial fusion.
Theirs has been a congenial relationship.
There was a particularly congenial, we're-all-in-this-together spirit to the HD afternoons with these Wagner works.
The ubiquity and in-your-face aesthetics of television take a harsher toll than movies on all but the most congenial of top talents.
Perhaps the academy ought to extract Mr. Glass from the Next Wave and give him a series of his own: the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, after all, is the most congenial theater in New York for Mr. Glass's music, operatic and otherwise.
