Sentence examples for congenial figure from inspiring English sources

Amadou comes across as the more congenial figure.

The director is Jon Favreau, a congenial figure who stopped the first two "Iron Man" films from rusting up.

Moreover, he has just replaced his first finance director, the stern Donna Arduin, with another moderate Republican, Tom Campbell, a former congressman who certainly dislikes taxes, but is seen as a more congenial figure by Democrats.The immediate likelihood, therefore, is for another serving of fudge in the 2005-06 budget.

He is the congenial, smiling figure, with his shock of grey hair, who pitched up yesterday in Rock Hill in the state's north-west to meet and greet voters.

Fiction wasn't a congenial form.

And while his most recent apartment, on West 20th Street, offered congenial roommates -- "I figured it was a reward for all the bizarro, kooky situations of the past" -- Mr. Saft decided the time had come to live on his own.

Yet... authoritarian, dignified, remote, Eliot had achieved a stature that infuriated Delmore even as it filled him with envy; restrained by the limitations of his own background from emulating Eliot's cultivated manner, Delmore could only follow an opposite course, and eventually found more congenial models in those exemplary figures of revolt Rimbaud and Baudelaire".

The fragment was, ultimately, the form most congenial to him.

Her book, like Anderson's, is full of congenial portraits of executives who think they have figured out this new economy.

"Folks are trying to figure out how to work with him". To set a congenial tone, Schwarzenegger has paid visits to the capital's leading Democratic officeholders, including Senate leader John Burton of San Francisco and Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson of Culver City.

"The Yuppie Handbook," published in 1984, described the yuppies as the heirs of the preppies: affluent but not obscenely rich, they were figures to be joked about in a gentle and congenial way.