Sentence examples for congenial influence from inspiring English sources

Scowcroft and Gibbs both point to Tudor influences in the Venite in which also, says Gibbs, "the congenial influence of Vaughan Williams in melody and harmony is felt".

When Lawrence arrived to meet Weekley for lunch, he instead found his German wife, Frieda, thirty-three years old, the mother of three children, and the former lover of the unorthodox psychoanalyst Otto Gross, from whom she had picked up the congenial idea of the Oedipus complex; her influence is patent in the title of "Sons and Lovers".

Travelling with the papal court of Eugenius IV to Florence (the ban of exile against his family was lifted with the restoration of Medici influence), Bologna, and Ferrara, Alberti made several congenial and fruitful contacts.

As the race for the nomination progressed that year, Eisenhower weighed in that he preferred a "responsible, forward-looking" Republican, a comment widely seen as an attempt to influence the primary in favor of a more congenial moderate like Nelson Rockefeller.

Xi's crackdown, which belies a congenial personality, is similar to Khamenei's warning against "penetration" by Western influences.

Coinciding with the appearance of a critical mass of feminist bioethics scholarship, in 1993 the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) was founded to provide a congenial home for feminists working in bioethics, to encourage international cross-fertilization, and to influence the agenda of mainstream bioethics.

In the Hollywood area, where Madonna's record label, Maverick, is based, the pervasive Jewish influence in the entertainment industry, no longer disguised, only makes Judaism that much more congenial.

He discussed the Ghanian influence on much Afro-American art, but said that the Latin-Catholic environment was more congenial to the Yoruba religion than the Puritan ethic in North America.

A crucial figure in the history of philosophy, Descartes combined (however unconsciously or even unwillingly) the influences of the past into a synthesis that was striking in its originality and yet congenial to the scientific temper of the age.

Congenial souls wanted.

It was a congenial fusion.