Sentence examples for congenial surroundings from inspiring English sources

A lifelong Catholic, he left in 1523 for more congenial surroundings in Italy.

We ate the pies in the congenial surroundings of Bocuse's salon, where we also finished off the Aligoté.

"She felt that putting important men together — and it was always men — in congenial surroundings with a glass of whiskey would help them get to know each other.

Through intermediaries, Polanski worked on the post-production process from his prison cell, and he will complete the project from the more congenial surroundings of his vacation home.

A VISITOR to New York with literary affinities might find congenial surroundings at the Library Hotel at the corner of 41st Street and Madison Avenue.

She begins to enjoy herself in such congenial surroundings, reads a book on the position of women in the Soviet Union and dreams of honest labour in the fields working a simple plough.

To me this rating means a restaurant must be memorable in every category: impeccable service; congenial comfortable surroundings that welcome guests; a wine list of depth, breadth and complexity, and above all else, creative food prepared and presented flawlessly.

The "congenial environment" is a woman.

Given where he comes from, it is not surprising that he finds his new surroundings congenial.

However, temples are not necessarily designed to be congenial to their surroundings, because a manifestation of the sacred is an irruption, a break in phenomenal continuity.

It is a joy to return to that opera and find a singer at least as expressive and infinitely more congenial to her surroundings, the superb Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, in the role in a typically fine recording from William Christie and Les Arts Florissants.