Keay's main theme, that the modern Middle East has been manipulated and shaped largely by outsiders, is an approach that is congenial in that part of the world, where, as the saying used to have it, "if two fish fight, the British are behind it".
Soon the main centre of Arabic theatre moved to Egypt, whose comparatively tolerant autonomy offered an atmosphere for literary and artistic creativity more congenial than other parts of the Ottoman Empire.
There was the ascent of the digital realm — with the happy surrender, on the part of hundreds of millions, to the congenial omniscience and possibly less congenial omnipotence of Google, and the perplexingly popular appeal of making available online all manner of information of the sort formerly considered private.
Second, the individual worker should be given an occupation that is congenial to him; since he will spend a large part of his life at work, it will be a better life if he can choose the type he prefers.
Another important part of Mr. Dharker's team is the congenial Shashi Baliga.
The program — "Lang Lang and Friends," part of Carnegie Hall's Ancient Paths, Modern Voices festival — cast Mr. Lang mostly in the roles of congenial host and accompanist to guests with whom he had personal connections.
It's a community that Ms. Waldman, 36, writes about knowingly in the novel: "Though the parts of Brooklyn congenial to people in their demographic had expanded dramatically in a widening web of faux-dives and mysteriously hip restaurants, to Nate the place seemed never to have been smaller, so dense was it with people he knew".
Although Boston was comparatively congenial when compared to other parts of the country, Trotter and others felt that Washington's stance was leading to an increase in more typically Southern racist attitudes in the city.
But whichever side you take, if Mr Talhelm is correct they are only "Asian" because, back in the neolithic, farmers in many parts of that continent found Oryza a more congenial crop to grow than Triticum.
Part lobby, part dining area, part glass-covered bar, the surroundings are glamorous and inviting, with congenial groupings of big plushy sofas and love seats, cafe tables and chairs.
