It seems a congenial thing--so graspable, and not cumbersome, like the much larger LP, which has to be eased out of its envelope and then precariously wedged between palms.
We were a congenial group (good thing, since we were together for dinner and sometimes breakfast and lunch as well).
Yet it masks subtler changes in Mr Bush's foreign-policy thinking that America's allies may find more congenial.For one thing, Mr Bush has chosen (for the moment) to work through the UN on Iraq, giving substance to his stated preference for pre-empting multilaterally.
His acid jokiness, streaked with dark, non-conformist pessimism, was congenial with her own view of things.
Pakistan's infamous Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) helped put these religious "students", or Taliban, in power by giving them military support, as well as paying-off power brokers who stood in their way.Fast forward to today and things look far less congenial for the Taliban.
Just think of all the things that can turn a congenial neighbourhood into a "sink estate", or an innocent three-year-old into a gun-toting menace.
But even congenial lawyers can wrench a deal by dragging things out.
With only 22 days left until the city elections (and early voting under way) things are progressing rather normally: the congenial spirit of the first televised debate made way for reality show-worthy name calling, and allegations of intimidation!
For the governor Memmius, himself a litterateur (to whom the Roman philosophic poet Lucretius dedicated his poem on the nature of things, De rerum natura), such company might be congenial, and it is possible to speculate that Cinna was on board the yacht.
Particularly congenial to him is Aristotle's contention that poetry ("the kind of thing that might happen") "is something more philosophic and of graver import than history".
Who knows, "aphobia" could be the one thing that finally unites heterosexuals and homosexuals in mutual and congenial hatred, just as different races and religions are often united in their distaste and disgust for homosexuality.
