Sentence examples for congenial but from inspiring English sources
The result was a congenial but resolutely uneventful chaos of communal mumbling.
Both sides characterized the negotiations as congenial, but the situation grew somewhat tense as progress stalled.
His manner is congenial, but his handshake has ice in it.
Mr. Drakoulias said negotiations with the Port Authority had been congenial, but had taken longer than anyone expected.
He lasted two seasons, getting the news during a congenial but difficult meeting with General Manager Bill Bavasi.
Generally, reporters find him more congenial but less knowledgeable about Washington than Fleischer, who worked on Capitol Hill for almost two decades.
Ms. Ekblad's old-school paint handling and bandwagon of references yield a congenial cacophony but not much progress.
Hints that Mr. Cleary, being a society man can find more congenial friends, but his father surely would have gone.
"We're a pretty jovial, congenial bunch, but there's kind of a look of seriousness I'm seeing now on people's faces.
Their first manager, the infamous Don Arden, found many creative ways of not paying them, while their subsequent signing to the former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham and his Immediate label gave them a more congenial environment but little extra money.
The show documents an art world of youthful talents and hothouse intellects, buoyed by skill, desire and a congenial marketplace but skeptical about their own usefulness in the world at large.
