But despite his many accomplishments and his congenial manner, Rhodes is an outsider.
In that role, Mueller excelled using a "diplomatic and congenial manner" that "significantly contributed to the rapport" Jones had with local Vietnamese officials and military officers, according to one account of Mueller's actions.
Like Kennedy, 80, Gorsuch is a Westerner with a polite, congenial manner who at times has won praise from liberals.
She has unstyled, mostly gray shoulder-length hair, and an invariably congenial and nonthreatening manner.
This article examines real-life problems that benefit from using this tool in a congenial and constructive manner to validate its key underlining concept.
He had the gift of transferring his musical thoughts and ideas to us London Symphony Orchestra players in the most congenial and delightful manner, thereby creating the perfect atmosphere for enjoyable and first-rate music making.
His manner is congenial, but his handshake has ice in it.
On the social side, he found the straightforward manners of Americans congenial, with certain exceptions: "Whenever you thank them for anything, they say 'You're welcome.' I rather liked it at first, thinking I was welcome, but now I find it comes back like a ball thrown against a wall, and become positively apprehensive.
Though a congenial pipe smoker with a relaxed fatherly manner, the Colonel is dispassionately systematic, observant, calculating, exacting, ultimately ruthless.
She was congenial, but her voice was strident, her manner initially taut.
In the "Tonight" manner, Mr. McCain was smooth and congenial.
