Sentence examples for congenial at from inspiring English sources

Already young for his class, Coen did not find Princeton congenial, at least socially.

In another, a dolorous-looking bearded immigrant said that since Sinclair's system "vorked vell in Russia, vy can't it vork here?" The most serious blow came from Franklin Roosevelt, who, though he had seemed congenial at first, wanted to protect New Deal legislation from association with radicals, and pulled away from an endorsement.

Any doubts they might have had about this were fully extinguished at the congenial gathering at Lord's two days ago to send them on their way.

A VISITOR to New York with literary affinities might find congenial surroundings at the Library Hotel at the corner of 41st Street and Madison Avenue.

After 1872, however, he worked in a more congenial atmosphere at Geneva, under Barthélémy Menn.

Will future orchestras choose congenial conductors at the expense of more challenging leadership?

Ansari found a congenial crowd at the UCB Theatre, on West Twenty-sixth Street, below a Gristedes supermarket, which was founded by the Upright Citizens Brigade, a sketch-comedy troupe.

Or mix with the congenial crowds at one of the mellow, pub-style bars on Via Roma in the historical district.

He is an academic who has done what few academics would dream of doing -- abandoned Oxford for a more congenial post at a provincial English university.

By a clause in the treaty of 533 between Justinian and Khosrow, however, the scholars were allowed to return to Athens, where they found the attitude toward philosophy to be more congenial than at the Persian court.

Lucent shrank the lab and focused its work on the bottom line-provoking outrage from the research community and prompting the departure of some talented investigators, who found more congenial homes at universities.