Sentence examples for congenial exercise from inspiring English sources
And then there are the princes themselves, one each from India, Sri Lanka and South Africa, who have been taken to Brighton for this wholly staged, fairly congenial exercise and assigned the task of finding romance within three weeks.
They do not directly explain the end of the "Golden Age," but it may be suggested that a society that invests most of its energies and all of its pride in war, even though it may be ideal for war, is unable to provide a congenial ground for the exercise of creative genius when its ideal has failed and it is left with nothing but a now-hollow pride.
Tallis ponders the true wonder of a different question: "Why can we think about that which is not?" All this, and a wonderful meditation on why sex in literature is so bad: Tallis is not just a polymath, but a most congenial thinker with whom to exercise one's intellect.
"The social fluidity that democracy makes possible, allowing people to climb from the bottom to the top of the ladder of social class in a generation or two," he writes, "provides a fine breeding ground for snobbery and gives much room to exercise condescension, haughtiness, affectation, false deference and other egregious behavior so congenial to the snob".
But as branding exercises go, it's a fairly harmless one (a philosopher makes a more congenial mascot than the all-conquering, drunken Alexander, whose face adorns cafes and gift shops in Macedon, to the west).
One is a remarkable intellectual fairness and patience, even with the least obviously congenial elements of the culture of the time: middle-brow novels mercifully forgotten today, or the dreadful ballroom exercise laid down by Victor Sylvester.
It was a congenial fusion.
The neighborhood was immediately congenial.
Cultured gentleman, mature, congenial, refined,.
