No problem," says the landlord, who seems like a much more congenial sort than the Whitney.
For a showcase of supposedly daunting experimentalism, the eight-hour performance couldn't have been more congenial -- sort of a cross between a great introductory seminar and a policy summit, with the audience getting lessons and the artists mingling agendas.
"I am a sort of congenial authority".
He is also, for the moment, as the sitting President, able to make that sort of case, in congenial tones, with his dignity intact.
Now as it happens, that sort of centrist, liberal party might turn out to be fairly congenial to this newspaper, too.
But there are also many imaginable movies that would seek greater complexity and find only chaos and overcomplication — or, alternatively, that would offer a message more congenial to Spielberg and Kushner's more radical critics, but only through exactly the same sort of selective editing of which the makers of "Lincoln" stand accused.
I do remember interviewing him: he was wearing a giant, absurd, striped hat — a sort of trapper hat, I think — that he didn't remove throughout the interview, and he seemed immediately very congenial and soft-spoken and Southern in some way (he is Philadelphian).
A sort of pernicious cliché has entered our discussion of Iranian politics, namely that the Western press cannot be trusted because American reporters are too lazy to leave North Tehran and too dazzled by the appearance of a vocal minority of upper-class Iranians who are congenial to our self-image.
David Nuttall, the congenial Tory candidate, points to several key sets of voters: couples with young families; first-time voters; and, in a seat where the state is the largest employer (the biggest private one is a call centre), disgruntled public-sector workers: the sort of people to whom the recent Tory talk of mutualism in the public services was pitched.
